IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1410
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SAINT LAURENCE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL, WORCESTER ROAD, COWLEY
Date(s): 1932-1972
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.22 linear metres
Name of creator(s): St Laurence Church of England School | Cowley
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
A church school was established in Cowley in about 1836, taking over a charity legacy for the education of poor children. In 1877 the school moved to new buildings in Church Road and, in 1891, to buildings in the High Street, which were enlarged in 1933-34. A new school was opened in Worcester Road in 1955. This took most of the juniors, although the High Street buildings continued in use for younger children for some time.
From about 1930 only juniors and infants were taught at the school. Older boys had gone to school in Hillingdon since 1890 and the older girls were removed from Cowley in the early 1930s.
Reference: The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex, Volume III, pages 176-7.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Saint Laurence Church of England School, Cowley, comprising registers of attendance; registers of school meals; register of infectious diseases; sales book of needlework made by pupils; and returns of the school meals service. The records in this collection date from 1932 when the school provided primary education. Two years of attendance and school meals registers have been retained as examples of the records produced by the school.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/1410/001-097: Registers; ACC/1410/098-102: Accounts.
Conditions governing access:
These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
The attendance registers for the school years ending 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965-1970, 1973, 1974, school meals registers for the school years ending 1963, 1965-1971, 1973, and school meals summary registers 1960-1963, 1965-1970, have been destroyed.
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records deposited in April 1978.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
A further two years of attendance registers (1960-61 and 1970-71) have been deposited in the Local History Collection at Uxbridge Library.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.