Davigdor County Secondary School for Girls, formerly East Hove National Schools,...

<p>For minutes of the Hove School Board, 1877-1903 see R/C 37/1-6; for minutes of the governing body of Davigdor County Infants' School, originally East Hove Infants, 1946-1968, see E/MA/100/1; for minutes of the governing body of Davigdor County Secondary Girls' School, originally East Hove Girls' (Modern) School, 1945-1959, 1968-1977, see E/MA/188/1-3; for records of the establishment of Hove National Schools, including plans, contracts, subscription lists and accounts, 1839-1854, see PAR 387/10/16-44; for a summary history of the school, 1834-1844, see PAR 387/10/25; for deeds of the site of the school in Farman Street, 1841-1926, see PAR 395/10/2/1; for six plans of proposed improvements to Farman Street School, 1886 see R/E 5/1/28; for building plans, 1840 see BGP 34/1-2; for photograph of the Infants' School, 1959 see C/A 4/111; for copies of statistical returns to the board of Education concerning East Hove Boys' School, 1904-1927 see R/E 5/3/68; for HMI reports of the Senior Girls' and Junior Schools, 1905-1932 see R/E 5/3/70; for plan of the polling station at the Farman Street Schools, 1889 see DB/D 46/480; for Boys' School records, 1894-1916 and Infants' School admission register, 1944-1952 see ACC 5116/1-4</p>

These schools have had a variety of names. Beginning life as the East Hove National Schools, they were taken over by the Hove School Board in 1878 as the Farman Street Schools. New buildings were opened in 1893 on Goldsmid Road, named East Hove Board School until 1903 and then East Hove Davigdor Road School. The schools were reorganised in 1929 and a senior girls' school took over the building, which subsequently became the Davigdor County Secondary School for Girls, and this closed in 1978. The boys' school, which took over the buildings formerly used by Connaught Road School, became known as the Manor County Secondary School and it closed in 1967 (E/SC/104). The infants' school became known as Davigdor County Infants' School (E/MA/100)