Catalogue description Thomas Peacock Community College, Rye

Rye Grammar School (formerly Peacock's and Sanders' Schools): for records, 1634-1845 see RYE 112-117; for minutes of the governing body, 1931-1967 see E/MA/147/1-3; for annual lists of special places awarded to East Sussex pupils, 1933-1936 see C/E 18/2; for file concerning a case of a child attending the school as a boarder and diagnosed as suffering from diphtheria during a holiday in Tangier, 1963 see C/H 4/14; for file concerning the school and its transfer to East Sussex County Council, 1921-1931 see C/E 23/15; for a 'history alphabet' of significant dates, nd see C/E 40/1; for school magazines, 1943-1945 see C/E 41/2; for files concerning the proposed new grammar school, 1905-1907 see C/C 82/18; for file concerning additions to the school, including HMI report and a memorandum on the school's history, 1928-1929 see C/C 82/75; for general file including drainage, additional accommodation and the closure of the school, 1951-1966 see C/C 82/106; for photographs of the school as existing, 1961 and 1966 see C/A 4/268, 274; for photographs of extension under construction and completed, 1959-1960 see C/A 4/270; for prospectus, 1930 see C/C 71/99; for schedule of condition of landlord's fixtures, 1940-1942 see C/C 55/127; for annual statements of the Grammar School Charity, 1901-1902 see CHC 65/4; for papers concerning rents of lands in Isle of Oxney payable to Saunders School, 1819-1820 see DAP box 12/7; for letter books, 1884-1905 and 1911-1918 see DAP box 250/1-2; for Rye Town Clerk's return of accounts of Thomas Peacocke Charity school, 1858 see DAP box 319/2/3; for Board of Education scheme for Rye Grammar School, 1906 see DAP box 319/10; for plans, 1907 see ACC 496/48; for exercise books of Horace and Carlos Coleman of Chitcombe in Brede, nd see ACC 2447/75

Rye Secondary School: for minutes of the governing body, 1933-1967 see E/MA/147/4-6; for registers of teachers, 1920-1937 see C/E 14/19-20; for photographs of extension under construction and completed, 1954-1960 see C/A 4/272; for aerial photographs, 1966 see C/A 4/275

Thomas Peacock Community College: for minutes of the governing body, 1967-1978 see E/MA/147/7-8; for instrument of government, 1967 see C/E 54/1; for photographs of extension under construction and completed, 1968-1969 see C/A 4/276 and C/A 5/68; for Area Office file, 1974-1980 see R/E 4/37/31; for HMI report, 1996 see R/E 1/15/130

Thomas Peacock Community College, Rye, East Sussex

In 1967 Rye Grammar School and Rye Secondary School were merged to form the Thomas Peacock Comprehensive, which has subsequently become a Community College