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Tytherington School Log Book Extracts |
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The Tytherington School Log Books give a
fascinating insight into the life of the village. Click on the
extracts below which include such items as "the children seem to have
forgotten a good deal of their work"; "I have started a school library,
we have over 100 volumes of good reading"; "Austin Livall has been
absent 55 times this year... ...his mother says the vicar has given her
permission to keep him at home"; "...two more deaths have resulted from
the typhoid fever" (the Clerk to
the Tytherington School Board died in this typhoid outbreak); "School closed on Thursday there being a meet of the
Fox Hounds in the village".
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| September 1890 | August/September 1891 | February 1892 | June/ July 1892 | August/September 1897 |
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| February 1898 | February/March 1900 |
| The following extracts below are from the 1940's during World War 2. They include: "...two boys reported finding a bomb in the woods in New Road"; "Only seven children attended school this morning and it was decided not to cook a meal for so few"; "Have today warned the children of carrying loaded machine gun ammunition"; "School closed at 12 o'clock today to allow boys to assist farmers plant potatoes". |
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| December 1940- January 1941. Headmaster Mr Hemmingway retires | March 1941 | May 1941 | June/July 1941 | July/August 1941 |
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| November/December 1942 | September 1943 | January/March 1944 | March/April 1944 | March/April 1945 |
| Mrs E. Messenger was a pupil at the school in the 1920's. She wrote a short letter (see below) on the centenary of the school in 1977 recalling her school days
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