Catalogue description Friends' School, Wigton

This record is held by Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle

Details of DFCF 7
Reference: DFCF 7
Title: Friends' School, Wigton
Description:

Deposited by Mr. J. Bernard Bradbury, on behalf of Cumberland Quarterly Meeting, on 13 August 1985

 

The records are conscientiously and thoroughly kept, at all levels, from administrative Committees to individual pupils, and give a vivid picture of life in a boarding-school, from the pupils' point of view.

 

Item

 

1 - 6 Admissions of pupils to the School

 

7 - 17 Administrative Committees

 

Item 10: [General] Committee 1812-1827

 

Item 15: Building Committee 1825-1827

 

18 - 33 School accounts

 

Item 23: includes Building accounts 1820s

 

34 - 37 Pupils' progress reports, and further details of admissions

 

38 - 139 Pupils' activities:-

 

38 - 51, 139 Work (exercise-books, etc.)

 

52 - 138 Leisure:

 

52 - 131 The Brookfield Association

 

52 - 65, 88 - 89) Its minutes

 

66 - 86 Report books

 

87 Mineral catalogue

 

90 - 91A Magazines

 

92 - 102 Diaries of School life

 

103 - 112 News Report books (i.e. digests of newspaper reports of current events)

 

113 Press-cuttings book

 

114 - 131 Essays

 

132 - 138 Other School Societies

 

139 Ackworth School maths, tables

 

140 Lane Head School Management Committee minute book 1854-1856
Date: 1812-1984
Held by: Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Friends School, Wigton, Cumbria
Physical description: 185 files
Subjects:
  • Wigton, Cumbria
  • Wigton, Cumberland
Administrative / biographical background:

The School was founded in 1813 at Highmoor near Wigton, to be the school for children of Friends "in this County". It soon outgrew its quarters at Highmoor, and a field was bought west of Wigton, and the present Brookfield School erected on it. The School moved in during 1826 (see e.g. Items 10 and 15). Non-Quaker children also were admitted from the 1850s onwards.

 

The School closed in 1984.
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