Catalogue description Bristol School Board

ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS:

Minutes:

Board minutes

Copy minutes

Draft minutes

General Committee minutes

Finance Committee minutes

Sub-committees (collated series)

Pupil Teachers' Committee

Requisitions Committee

School Attendance Committee

Blind and Deaf Children Committee

Sites and Buildings Committee

Technical Instruction Committee

Cookery and School Management Committees

Reports:

Triennial reports

Legal records:

Sealing books

FINANCIAL RECORDS:

Accounts:

Financial statements

Cash books:

General cash books

Petty cash books

Ledgers:

Ledgers of salaries and expenditure

MANAGEMENT RECORDS:

Records created by central government:

Reports of the Committee of the Council of Education (England and Wales)

Reports of the Education Department

Acts of Parliament

Staff records:

Pupil teachers

Promotion of teachers

ILLUSTRATIVE MATERIAL:

Printed Material:

Year books (bound series)

Year books

Biblical Knowledge prizes

Board regulations

The records were transferred to Bristol Record Office in 1963.

All records created by Bristol School Board were passed on to the Education Committee. In some instances, where the records were created by the Board but completed by the Committee, the records have been catalogued under the Committee (21131/EC).

Bristol School Board was set up in 1871 under the provisions of the Public Elementary Education Act of 1870, being the last major town in England to do so. Despite this late start and some press criticism, the board was acknowledged by government inspectors for carrying out its duties with 'more ability, fairness and success' than any comparable authority.

In 1903 the board was superseded by Bristol Education Committee.