Database : Newspaper Articles and Miscellaneous, 1818 - 1952

1922

Misc 1922 G 1

Manchester High School Old Girls' Association

Agenda of a forthcoming meeting including a note that Miss Burstall wishes to compile  list the of the names and addresses of former pupils to commemorate the 50^th anniversary of the school.

References made to Annie Ellis, Dorothy McInnes.

Misc 1922 Sp 1

6 September 1922

Part of the Deeds and a map of the site of the school sports field at Birchfields Rd 

NA 1922 O 1

3 June 1922, The Graphic

Manchester High School for Girls

Article on the school including descriptions of the foundation of the school, of Miss Burstall's academic career and an English lesson taught by her, of the building at Dover St, assembly, gymnastics, the work and opinions of Dr Catherine Chisholm, modern languages, classics, secretarial work and housewifery, scholarships and fees

Includes references to Miss Buss, Miss Beale, Miss Day, Philippa Esdaile, Miss Bradshaw, Mrs C P Scott, Alice Zimmern, Miss Gaskell, Lord Bryce, Sir Henry Roscoe.

Also includes photographs of the following:

Miss Burstall sitting at her desk;

A teacher and girls in the library;

Teachers and girls in the hall for assembly;

Junior girls, teachers and waitresses in the dining room;

A teacher and girls using typewriters;

Girls modelling clay, under this photograph are written the names Muriel Hargreaves and Kitty Cramer;

Miss McNicol demonstrating a skeleton to girls in the zoology lab;

Girls doing exercises in the gym;

A cookery lesson;

Girls working at a bench in the zoology lab;

Girls baking. Across one of these is written Rhona [ie Rhona Barlow];

Includes a drawing of the building at Dover St.