🡔 Education | Links to log book transcriptions 🡓

Two school log books were kept for Waters Upton Church of England School; both are held at Shropshire Archives. The first (document ref ED262/10 🡕) covered the period 1877 to 1899. The second (document ref ED262/11 🡕) continued from where the first left off in 1899, and continued until the closure of the school in 1916. Some years ago, both volumes were microfilmed by FamilySearch; more recently those microfilm images have been digitised (my grateful thanks to Áine Ní Donnghaile for obtaining and sending me copies).

I am not the first to look at the log books. Joyce Green studied them, along with many others, as part of the research for a thesis she submitted to the University of Liverpool in 1989: Elementary Education in Shropshire During the First Fifteen Years of the School Board Period (PDF)🡕. (She also drew upon this research for a paper published in volume 53 of the History of Education Society Bulletin in 1994: The Anglican Clergy and the Village School: Variations in Initiative and Enthusiasm in Shropshire Schools during the Nineteenth Century 🡕.

David E Coop must also have spent a number of hours poring over the logs books, prior to producing Waters Upton Public Elementary School Shropshire; the log books 1877-1916 in 1997. I have not seen this myself, but a copy is held by Shropshire Archives 🡕.

I will be transcribing the log books in stages, and adding those transcripts to this section of the Waters Upton website. I will also be indexing their contents to make their content more accessible. The first section of the first log book is now online, with more to follow in time:

🡖 Log Book 1 (Part 1) – Pages 1 to 22 (18 Jul 1877 to 25 Mar 1881)

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