History of Phillip Road School
History of the Wyvenhoe Board School (Wivenhoe Centre)
This history of the establishment and early years of the Wivenhoe Board School on Phillip Road, Wivenhoe was put together as part of the application to English Heritage in March 2008 to gain listed status for the school. It contains information about the architect of the school and the reasons why the school should be listed so that it can be retained and preserved as a community resource for the use of Wivenhoe residents. The photographs used in the original document can be viewed by looking in the Wivenhoe Centre Folder in the Photo Album on this website.
(A paper presented (with slides) as part of a course on Victorian Architecture at the University of Essex, March 1973)
The 1870 Education Act was a landmark in English education. It was a major recognition by the government that the state bore some responsibility, at least, for setting up a national system of free and compulsory education. It was only the beginning of legislation towards the educational system we know today, but from another point of view it was also the culmination of an educational structure that had slowly been growing up in England since the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The nineteenth century was a crucial era in the ratification of this educational structure, and in this paper I propose to explore the changing development of schools organisation and planning from 1800 – 1870, with particular reference to the social and historical reasons which bought these changes about.
Transcripts of records of meeting with regard to Wivenhoe and the School Board Question 1886-91 as reported in the Essex County Standard and Ipswich Journal of the day.
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