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College of St. Hild and St. Bede – St. Hild’s College and College of the Venerable Bede

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1996
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College of St. Hild and St. Bede – St. Hild’s College and College of the Venerable Bede records

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E/HBE/HB College of St. Hild and St. Bede – St. Hild’s College and College of the Venerable Bede
E/HBSt Hild’s College
E/HBTraining College for Schoolmistresses managers’ minutes
E/HB 1/9681 volumeTraining College for Schoolmistresses managers’ meetings minutes, 26 August 1889- 23 July 1912
E/HBSt Hild’s Demonstration School managers’ minutes
E/HB 1/969/11 volume, paper boundSt Hild’s Demonstration School managers’ meetings minutes, 30 August 1913- 29 September 1933
E/HB 1/969/21 volumeSt Hild’s Demonstration School managers’ meetings minutes, 29 September 1933- 27 November 1950
E/HB 1/969/31 fileSt Hild’s Demonstration School managers’ meetings minutes, 20 June 1951- 25 September 1964
E/HBSt Hild’s Church of England School managers’ minutes
E/HB 1/9701 fileSt Hild’s Church of England School managers’ meetings minutes, 6 November 1975 – 13 February 1979
E/HBCorrespondence
E/HB 1/971/1-99 papers, printedCopy letters between Miss A.L. Lawrence, St Hild’s College Principal, Margaret E. Aspinall, St Hild’s College Head Mistress and Mrs Pattinson, 11 St Monica’s Drive, Durham, regarding a misunderstanding about the latter’s application for work at the College, 3 February – 29 April 1949
E/HB 1/972/1-55 papersCopy letters between Rev. Casey, Chairman of the Manager’s of St Hild’s School, Dr. J.V. Armitage, Principal of the College of St Hild and St Bede, Mrs D.G. Passmore of 13 Gilesgate, relating to suggestions of recognizing Miss Aspinall’s services to the School by awarding her with an Honorary Degree on her retirement, 27 April-10 May 1978
E/HBMiscellaneous
E/HB 1/9731 paper, printedList showing number of pupils from Durham City and surrounding area, n.d., [1960s-70s]
E/HB 1/9741 fileSt Hild’s School mathematics schemes of work for infants, lower and upper juniors
E/HB 1/9751 paper, printedList of St Hild’s School Managers, n.d. [1970s]- Rev. E.G. Casey, Chairman, St Giles Vicarage, Gilesgate- Rev. Canon A.D. Chesters, Diocesan Director of Education, Hallgarth House, Hallgarth Street- E. Makepeace, Area Administrative Assistant, Education Department, County Hall- Mrs K. Venning, 10 South Bailey- Dr J.V. Armitage, correspondent to the Managers, Principal, College of St Hild and St Bede
E/HBIndividual students and staff
E/HB 1/914-921Winifred HindmarchBequests of material by former staff and students Miss Winifred Hindmarch
E/HB 1/9141 volume, card boundZoology notebook, July 1902 For enclosures see E/HB 1/915
E/HB 1/9152 papersDiagram showing dissection of the nervous system of Paludina, and printed notice of a summer course for teachers in zoology, 2 – 24 July 1902
E/HB 1/9161 volume, card boundBotany notebook, commenced 22 September 1913
E/HB 1/9171 volume, card boundZoology notebook, n.d. [c. 1916] For enclosures see E/HB 1/918
E/HB 1/91825 papers and 1 fileZoology notes and questions, n.d. [early 20th c.]
E/HB 1/9191 volume, card boundNotebook of biology (plant life) questions, n.d. [early 20th c.]
E/HB 1/9201 volume, card boundNotebook of biology (zoology) questions, n.d. [early 20th c.]
E/HB 1/9211 volume, card boundNotebook of gardening and botany questions, n.d. [early 20th c.]
E/HB 1/922-923N. [? Annie] Henderson
E/HB 1/9221 album of 16 photographs, sepia tintPhotograph album of N. Henderson, containing photographs of the college and chapel interiors, groups of students and staff, and students in theatrical costume, n.d. [c. 1915] For enclosure see E/HB 1/923, 932 and 933 [N.B. a pencilled note inside the front cover attributes this volume to ‘Nan Henderson 1901-3’, The presence, however, of Miss Christopher, principal from 1910, in several of the photographs would indicate that this is more probably Annie Henderson, a former student 1914 – 1916]
E/HB 1/9231 photograph, 13.5 cm. x 8.5 cm., sepia tintPhotograph of staff and students (named on reverse side), detached from E/HB 1/922, n.d. [1913 – 1915]
E/HB 1/924-925Mary Riddle
E/HB 1/9241 volume, card boundBotany notebook of Mary Riddle, a student between 1904 and 1906, 19 September 1904 – 16 May 1906
E/HB 1/9251 volume, card boundZoology notebook of Mary Riddle, 9 October 1904 – 18 May 1906
E/HB 1/926-927Annie Hilda Hossent
E/HB 1/9261 postcard, 8.5 cm. x 13.5 cm., sepia tintPhotograph of Annie Hilda Hossent, a student between 1910 and 1912, 1911
E/HB 1/9271 postcard, 8.5 cm. x 13.5 cm., sepia tintPhotograph of a group of three female students, two standing beside bicycles, in the grounds of St. Hild’s, and endorsed ‘Hilda’s school mates Durham College, 1911’, 1911
E/HB 1/928Lillian SmithLillian Smith See also E/HB 1 /809-827
E/HB 1/9281 photograph, 15 cm. x 20 cm., sepia tint, mounted on cardPhotograph of L. Smith, age 20, a student between 1915 and 1917, [1917]
E/HB 1/929Mary Moore
E/HB 1/9291 photograph, 43 cm. x 20 cm., black and whitePhotograph of St. Hild’s staff and students, including Mary Moore, a senior student between 1919 and 1921, n.d. [c. 1921]
E/HB 1/930Elsie Aldridge
E/HB 1/9301 photograph, 45 cm. x 19 cm., sepia tintPhotograph of St. Hild’s staff and students, including E. Aldridge, a senior student between 1920 and 1922, n.d. [c. 1922]
E/HB 1/931Hilda Mary Warren
E/HB 1/9311 fileBiology notes (pp. 8 – 134) of Hilda Mary Warren, a student between 1926 and 1928, [c. 1928]
E/HB 1/932-936Annie Hill
E/HB 1/932-9355 papersLetters to Annie Hill, teacher, a student between 1927 and 1929, from Eleanor Christopher, Gladys Hinde, Winifred Hindmarch, and Jean S. Templeton, all of St. Hild’s College, Durham, congratulating the former on her examination success, 14 – 15 September 1929 Originally enclosed in E/HB 1/922
E/HB 1/9361 photograph, 13 cm. x 8 cm., black and whitePhotograph of Annie Hill and her fellow students at St. Hild’s, n.d. [1929] Originally enclosed in E/HB 1/922
E/HB 2/951-1051Auger – LowerisonBequests of material by former students Auger – Lowerison See also E/HB 2/837 – 855
E/HB 2/9517 papersVerses written by Harry Lowerison to the Post Office Savings Bank Clerks on his leaving the Office, entitled ‘To “the Girls at the Office”, in blank verse, this “Leaf for Hand-in-hand” (Watt Whitman)’, July 1892
E/HB 2/9521 paperNote dedicating an unidentified volume to ‘Elaine, from Dad, the author’ [Harry Bellerby Lowerison], December 1909
E/HB 2/9536 papersGenealogical and biographical notes concerning Harry Bellerby Lowerison (former student of Bede College, 1884) including copy certificate of birth (Chester le Street, 1863), marriage (1892), and the birth of his children, 20th c.
E/HB 2/9541 photograph, 15 cm. x 20 cm., black and white, mounted on cardPhotograph portrait of [Harry Bellerby Lowerison], n.d. [c. 1920’s]
E/HB 2/955-102366 photographs, sepia tint/black and white, and 1 paperPhotographs of Ruskin School, Heacham, Norfolk, and headmaster Harry Bellerby Lowerison, c. 1902 – 1934; 1958 Includes: front elevation of High House, Heacham, with ornamental fountain in foreground; Ruskin School nameplate, door to schoolroom bearing replica Durham sanctuary knocker, interior of attic dormitory, school orchard, and conservatory (1917); pupils visiting Castle Acre Priory, Castle Rising, Hunstanton, Norwich, Snettisham, and Ringstead Downs [Norfolk], pupils on overseas visits, pupils in school grounds, studying in the open air, sea bathing, boating, in theatrical costume, boy scouts troop, and football team (1915); school French master M. George Levy; Harry Bellerby Lowerison and family, Lowerison in coast-watching uniform, and with ‘adopted’ American officers (1914 – 1918), bomb dropped on Heacham (January 1915), Lowerison with acquaintances Frank Southgate, Mr. Round, and Robert Blatchford; family homes at Glendale Cottage, and Green Garth (1934), in Houghton, Huntingdonshire; postcard portrait of John Ruskin; view of Roman wall foundations in Gilsland vicarage garden, [Cumberland]; and newspaper cutting and photograph of shooting trophies won by old Ruskin scholar Alwyn Hindley, (1958)
E/HB 2/10241 postcard, 13.5 cm. x 9 cm., 13.5 cm. x 9 cm.Photograph of Ruskin School, Heacham, Norfolk, showing grounds and tennis court, n.d. [early 20th c.]
E/HB 2/10251 volume, leather boundVisitors’ book recording the annual reunions of the old scholars of Ruskin School, Heacham, Norfolk, and at the end, the visitors of Elaine Auger (nee Lowerison), 13 January 1912 – 16 August 1978 For enclosures see E/HB 2/952 and 1028
E/HB 2/10261 booklet, printed and illustratedThe Ruskin School – Old Scholar magazine, n.d. [1921]
E/HB 2/10271 paperReceipt for payment of school fees at Ruskin School, Heacham, by A. Auger, 23 January 1924 Originally enclosed in E/HB 2/1032 – 1051
E/HB 2/10281 paperNewspaper cutting concerning the sale of High House, Heacham, Norfolk, formerly the Ruskin Boarding School, owned by Harry Lowerison, n.d. [c. 1980]
E/HB 2/10291 engraved silver medalRuskin School Home enamelled silver medal presented to Alwyn Hindley for swimming, summer term, 1915 Originally enclosed in E/HB 2/1032-1051
E/HB 2/10301 rectangular metal badge, 2.5 cm. x 3 cm., enamel defectiveEnamelled badge of the Ruskin School Home, Heacham, Norfolk, bearing the motto ‘justice & gentleness’, early 20th c. [This is possibly the badge given by H. B. Lowerison to his pupils in 1919 in thanks for peace]
E/HB 2/10311 embroidered cloth badgeRuskin School Home blazer badge, early 20th c.
E/HB 2/1032-105144 papersCorrespondence with Mrs. E. A. Auger, nee Lowerison, concerning her father Harry Bellerby Lowerison, founder of the Ruskin School, Heacham, Norfolk, his life and times, and her gifts of papers and money to the College, 15 January 1980 – 6 December 1984 Includes: copy obituaries of H. B. Lowerison, 1935 For enclosures see E/HB 2/1027 and 1029
E/HB 2/1052-1057James Christie LaxJames Christie Lax See also E/HB 2/934 – 950 and E/HB 1/894 – 912
E/HB 2/10521 paperLetter from Durham County Council Education Department to J. C. Lax offering him an appointment as certificated assistant teacher, 4 June 1909
E/HB 2/1053Parchment, 1 membrane, printed formBoard of Education certificate confirming James Christie Lax as a certificated teacher following training at the Durham Training College, 1 August 1909
E/HB 2/1054-10552 papersCopy Board of Education results of general examinations in science and technology taken by James Christie Lax, 1913
E/HB 2/10561 paper, printedExamination paper in elementary mechanics and physics for the second year technical course examination of Durham County Council Evening Classes and Technical Schools, 9 April 1914
E/HB 2/10571 paperCopy Board of Education letter to Mary Smith Lax, nee Browbank, of Willington Council School, recognising her service as an uncertificated teacher, between 1906 and 1908, 4 January 1927
E/HB 2/1058-1074Stanley Turner
E/HB 2/10581 paper, printedArchbishop’s certificate of a second class award in Divinity for students in Church of England Training Colleges, to Stanley Turner, of Bede Training College, 1939
E/HB 2/1059-10624 papersMinistry of Education correspondence with Stanley Turner concerning his training grant, teaching qualification, and superannuation contributions, 2 September 1946 – 20 July 1950
E/HB 2/10631 photograph, 21.5 cm. x 16.5 cm., black and white, mounted on cardPhotograph of Bede College Athletic Club, including S. Turner, 1937 – 1938
E/HB 2/10641 photograph, 21 cm. x 15.5 cm., black and white, mounted on cardPhotograph of Bede College Cultural Society, including S. Turner, 1946 – 1947
E/HB 2/10651 photograph, 20.5 cm. x 15.5 cm., black and white, mounted on cardPhotograph of Bede College Harriers’ Club, including S. Turner, 1946 – 1947
E/HB 2/10661 photograph, 20.5 cm. x 15.5 cm., black and white, mounted on cardPhotograph of Bede College Athletic Club, including S. Turner, 1947
E/HB 2/10671 photograph, 20.5 cm. x 14.5 cm., black and white, mounted on cardPhotograph of University of Durham Union Society, taking part in June Week Inter-Varsity Debate, including S. Turner, June 1948
E/HB 2/10681 photograph, 20.5 cm. x 15.5 cm., black and white, mounted on cardPhotograph of Bede College Athletics Club, including S. Turner. 1948
E/HB 2/10691 photograph, 20.5 cm. x 15 cm., black and white, mounted on cardPhotograph of Bede College Harriers’ Club, including S. Turner, 1948
E/HB 2/10701 photograph, 20.5 cm. x 15 cm., black and white, mounted on cardPhotograph of Bede College Rugby Football Club, including S. Turner, 1948 – 1949
E/HB 2/10711 photograph, 20.5 cm. x 15 cm., black and white, mounted on cardPhotograph of Bede College Boat Club, including S. Turner, 1949
E/HB 2/10721 photograph, 17 cm. x 11 cm., black and whitePhotograph of Bede College students and staff, including S. Turner, [c. 1949]
E/HB 2/10731 photograph, 20.5 cm. x 13.5 cm., black and white, mounted on cardPhotograph of Bede College Boat Club, including S. Turner, 1957 – 1958
E/HB 2/10741 photograph, 21 cm. x 14 cm., black and white, mounted on cardPhotograph of Bede College Association Football Club, including S. Turner, 1958 – 1959
E/HB 2/1075-1088Brian Kennett
E/HB 2/10751 paper, printedBede College prospectus, 1940 – 1941
E/HB 2/107612 papersAccounts of college fees and battels bills payable by B. Kennett, 2 October 1941 – 29 September 1942
E/HB 2/10771 paper, printedPoster advertising a Union Society Visitors’ Evening debate, 26 February 1942
E/HB 2/10781 paperPoster advertising a Durham Colleges Education Society debate, 31 October, n.y. [c. 1942]
E/HB 2/10791 bookletThe New Durham, Vol. III, No. 9, magazine of the students of the Durham Colleges, Easter 1942
E/HB 2/10801 paperProgramme of Durham University Athletic Club sports meeting, 9 May 1942
E/HB 2/10811 booklet, printedProgramme of Durham Colleges Athletic Club annual sports meeting, 16 and 18 May 1942
E/HB 2/10822 papers, printedAutographed programme of Durham Colleges’ Dramatic Society production of The Late Christopher Bean by Emlyn Williams, and accompanying newspaper review, n.d. [c. 1942]
E/HB 2/1083-10842 cards, printedDurham University Boat Club programmes, 23 May 1942, and 14 – 15 May 1943
E/HB 2/10851 photograph, 16 cm. x 12 cm., black and white, mounted on card, and 1 paperPhotograph of Bede College students, including Brian Kennett, taken outside Cruddas Hall, 1942 – 1943
E/HB 2/10861 photograph, 21 cm. x 16 cm., black and whitePhotograph of Durham University Senior Training Corps, including Brian Kennett, 1942 – 1943
E/HB 2/10871 paperCertificate of discharge of B. Kennett from the Durham University Senior Training Corps, Infantry Branch, 10 October 1945
E/HB 2/10883 papersObservation notes on the teaching practice of B. Kennett, 27 September 1944 – 29 June 1945
E/HB 1/937-946St. Hild’s College Association: Lakeland Branch (1936 – 1996)
E/HB 1/9371 volume, card boundMinute book of the Lake District Branch of St. Hild’s College Association (signed), 1 February 1936 – 27 December 1939 Includes: at end, names and addresses of branch members
E/HB 1/9381 volume, card boundMinute book of the Lakeland Branch of St. Hild’s College Association (signed), 22 November 1958 – 16 November 1972
E/HB 1/9391 volume, paper boundMinute book of the Lakeland Branch of St. Hild’s College Association, 12 May 1973 – 14 November 1974 Includes: notes of meetings held 5, May 1984 – [ ] 1990
E/HB 1/9401 volume, paper boundMinute book of the Lakeland Branch of St. Hild’s College Association (signed), 10 May 1975 – 7 May 1983
E/HB 1/9411 fileMinutes of meetings of the Lakeland Branch of the Association of the College of St. Hild and St. Bede (signed), 7 May 1988 – 27 April 1996
E/HB 1/9421 volume, paper boundAddress book of the Lakeland branch of St. Hild’s College Association, 1978 – 1986
E/HB 1/943-9442 photographs, 15 cm. x 10 cm., colourPhotographs of members of the Lakeland Branch of the Association of the College of St. Hild and St. Bede, grouped outside St. Anne’s Church, Ings, Cumbria, n.d. [c. 1994 – 1996]
E/HB 1/9451 photograph, 15.5 cm. x 20.5 cm., black and whitePhotograph of Mary Rowe’s mother [ ], holding old photographs of school children, borrowed from Beamish Museum, in connection with a newspaper article by the Northern Echo education reporter for Christmas week, 1988, 26 June 1989
E/HB 1/9461 volume, paper bound, printedAgnes Inman, Coniston between the Wars, Lancashire, 1995 Includes: reminiscences of Agnes Tyson, former student of St. Hild’s, 1933 – 1935
E/HB 1/947-967Lesotho Training ProjectLesotho Training Project This was a programme of summer training courses for unqualified primary teachers in Lesotho, run under the auspices of the British Council and the Ministry of Overseas Development. The first team of staff from St. Hild’s, led by Miss N. Joachim, visited Lesotho in July and August 1966.
E/HB 1/94716 papersArticle by Miss Nina Joachim on ‘Some problems of teacher training in Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland’, and correspondence with the Foreign Editor of The Times Educational Supplement concerning possible publication of the same, 29 – 30 October 1965
E/HB 1/9481 fileCopy report by Nina M. E. Joachim, principal of St. Hild’s on ‘In-service courses for teachers in Africa: a programme for up-grading unqualified lower primary school teachers in Lesotho, 1966 – 1968’, September 1968
E/HB 1/9495 papersDiagram and tables illustrating the system of education in Basutoland, compiled from the annual education reports for Basutoland, for the years 1961, 1963 and 1964, 1966
E/HB 1/950-9567 photographs, 6 black and white, and 1 colourPhotographs of Miss Nina Joachim on educational training visits to Lesotho (formerly Basutoland), in Southern Africa, also groups of local teachers and schoolchildren, n.d. [c. 1965 – 1968]
E/HB 1/9571 photograph, 21 cm. x 15.5 cm., black and white, and 3 papersPhotograph of Miss Nina Joachim and eight other Durham lecturers prior to their summer visit to Basutoland to direct an upgrading course for primary school teachers, and associated newspaper cuttings, n.d. [1966] See also E/HB 1/566
E/HB 1/95812 papersReport on the Lesotho Education Seminar project, 1975, and covering letter from Peter Green of the College of St. Hild and St. Bede to Miss Nina Joachim, 23 September 1975
E/HB 1/959-9671 booklet, 10 papersBrochures and newsletters of Swaneng Hill School in Serowe, Bechuanaland Protectorate, Africa, leaflet illustrating the work of Swaneng Co-operative Society, and a description of the local board game ‘Morabaraba’, 18 August 1964 – April 1965

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