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were being curtailed to ‘Replacing the
brick floor with a wooden one, dividing the yard by a close
fence, converting the present coal house into a privy and
building a new one and removing the fixed desks from the walls
to be replaced by parallel ones’.
By 1867, Multon Lambarde had put his revised plans
on paper, with a deed of trust dated 18th March 1867.7
The immediate reaction was to apply for permission to build a
house on 27th March. This house to be built with the following
materials :-
Foundations Flint
Floor
Wood
Walls
Brick – 1½ feet thick
Roof
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By December of 1867, £35 with a promise of a
further £10 grant from the Gravesend Church Union, had been
raised and a qualified Mistress from Pulborough in Sussex
appointed. This may well have been the Miss. Mary Susannah
Jacklin, who was mistress of the National School in 1866.8
By 1867 £40 was still needed for the house. The cost of
building was estimated at £103 11s 0d :
Subscriptions Collected £48 9s 6d
National
Society Grant £20 0s 0d
Gravesend
Church Union £8 8s 0d
Total £76 17s 6d
7 See
appendix 3 and fig.
10.
8 Kelly’s Directory for
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