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Down Infants' School, Bexhill-on-Sea

Catalogue reference: E/SC/215

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This record is about the Down Infants' School, Bexhill-on-Sea dating from 1910 - 1973.

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Reference

E/SC/215

Title

Down Infants' School, Bexhill-on-Sea

Date

1910 - 1973

Description
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Related material

<p>For minutes of the governing body, 1906-1982 see E/MA/8/1-4; for the educational records of Bexhill BC, 1920-1941 see C/E 12/1-9; for photograph, 1953 see C/A 4/13 and for 1963 see C/A 5/7; for file concerning responsibility for a ditch adjoining the path to the school, 1950-1958 see C/C 82/100; for schedule of pupils returned to the Hastings Area Office, 1975 see R/E 4/36/2; for plans of new school, 1905 see DR/A 1/13/1462; for plan of extensions, 1911 see DR/A 1/18/1997; for file on the contract with Rice and Sons Limited, 1942 see DR/B 69/1</p>

Held by
East Sussex Record Office
Language

English

Creator(s)
<corpname>Down Infants' School, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex</corpname>
Physical description

2 series

Custodial history

Records transferred 31 Jul 1990 (ACC 5549), 4 Jun 1993 (ACC 6103)

Administrative / biographical background

The school was opened on 4 March 1907 and was the first to be established by Bexhill BC which was a part 3 local education authority. The school was reorganised in 1910 into separate mixed and infants' departments. The school was closed on 19 July 1940 and the children evacuated to Hertfordshire. The buildings were occupied by a junior mixed school from August 1941 (renamed Down Council Lower School from January 1942) until September 1944 when the Down Council Infants' School was established

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Down Infants' School, Bexhill-on-Sea