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From: "Alan Rowland" <>
Subject: Re: Grammar School, Mansfield
Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 09:57:53 +0100


Stan

You are correct, Skegby did not have a grammar school but Mansfield did but
I cannot say for certain about Suttin in Ashfield which is much easier to
get to from Skegby than is Mansfield.

However, Mansfield had the Old Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School - founded
during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and until quite recently, exclusively
for boys. In December 1890, Queen Elizabeth's Girls Grammar School was
opened on Woodhouse Road and may well have been the school to which your
mother went.

Brunts school (which later became a grammar school) was erected almost
facing this school some time shortly after 1894.

I do not know where the old registers/logs of the QE girls school are. They
may have been deposited when the boys and girsl amalgamated or may simply
have transferred with the pupils.

A letter to the
Head Teacher,
The Queen Elizabeth School
150 Chesterfield Road South
Mansfield
Notts
(telephone 01623 23559)
may be your first and best option.

>I was interested to see John Mellors' posting re school records. My
>mother, Winifred Annie BAYNE (nee BELL) said that she had attended a
>Grammar School, but I do not know where or when. The family lived in
>Skegby, but shifted to Mansfield at some stage. Her time at this school
>would probably have been in the period 1896 - 1908. I assume that there
>would not have been a Grammar School in Skegby, so it was most likely to
>have been in Mansfield. Can someone please give me a clue? And if
>anyone has access to an Old Girls register and can confirm this, so much
>the better.
>
>Hopefully,
>--
>Stan Bayne, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
>Rootsweb Member >>
>Researching: BELL, THOMPSON, Notts, ENG; BAYNE, Ches, ENG & SCT.
>Vivat Regina!
>
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