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From: "david knowles" <>
Subject: Re: [ BRAD] Query - Wapping, Bradford
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 19:24:26 -0000


Amy,

Thanks. I was able to spot in one of the articles that it is North Bradford,
so it's narrowed my search.

Regards,

Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amy Best" <>
To: "'david knowles'" <>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 5:58 PM
Subject: RE: [ BRAD] Query - Wapping, Bradford


> David - try this
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> Originally known as Wapping Road School, it was among the first phase of
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> In September 1878 the school log book notes: "Punished several children
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> Eight years later HMI school inspectors reported: "The difficulties of
> conducting this school are considerable; some of the children are
> insufficiently fed and belong to a very poor class."
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> Even in the 1900s the streets around the school still suffered from
> primitive sanitation, poor lighting and open ash tips - conditions that
> meant diseases like TB, scabies, ringworm and "pinkeye" were rife.
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> But by then things had begun to improve thanks to the work of
> educational pioneer Margaret McMillan. A committed Christian Socialist,
> she arrived in Bradford in 1893 and was elected as the youngest and only
> female member of the city's school board. During the next eight to nine
> years she dedicated herself to improving the health and conditions of
> pupils.
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> In 1960 Miriam Lord wrote an article in the T&A to mark the centenary of
> her birth. She said: "She made it her duty to see every school. Those in
> the slums gave her a great shock, never before had she seen children so
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> According to a report of the then head teacher of Wapping Road, Miss
> Annie Whitehouse, Margaret McMillan visited the school, bringing
> families clogs, food and clothing.
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> But the big breakthrough came in 1899 when the city's first school baths
> opened at Wapping Road School. Other reforms pioneered by Margaret
> McMillan in Bradford included the introduction of school medical
> officers and school meals.
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> The enormous difference in conditions then can be clearly seen in the
> two comparative photographs of children at Wapping Road School which
> were published with Miss Lord's article in 1960. At the time these
> caused great controversy, with indignant former pupils flooding the
> T&A's letter page.
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> One wrote: "You will not find many like the teachers were at Wapping.
> They saw that we were not dirty after we went to school.
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> "You were inspected about your clogs or shoes being cleaned. We all got
> a good schooling at Wapping."
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> Another former Wapping pupil wrote: "Miss Lord is wrong about the
> children of that day. I never saw any children dressed so poorly and
> untidily as in the photograph in the T&A. We all wore clean, white
> rubber collars, clean clothes and boots."
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> But whatever the truth, there is no doubting that the work of Margaret
> McMillan in schools like Wapping Road left a huge legacy for the rest of
> the country's children. The Government soon followed the lead taken in
> Bradford, introducing a national system of school meals and compulsory
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: david knowles [mailto:]
> Sent: 02 February 2003 17:13
> To:
> Subject: [ BRAD] Query - Wapping, Bradford
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> Hi Listers,
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> I'm informed that a relative at one time lived in Wapping (not sure of
> spelling), Bradford.
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> I'm not familiar with that district. Can anyone provide me with
> information regarding locality etc.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Dave
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