Manchester High School For Girls
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Database : Newspaper Articles and Miscellaneous, 1818 - 1952

1941

NA 1941 H 1

A Strait Waistcoat?

Report on the establishment of a committee of which Miss Clarke will be a member, to investigate "the effect of public examinations on the spirit and range of education."

 

NA 1941 G 1

16 May 1941, Manchester Guardian

Recent Wills. Two Sisters' Bequests to Manchester

Details of the wills of two sisters, Marion Hewitt and Ruth Hewitt who were "killed by enemy action." They left money to the school.

 

NA 1941 G 2

14 October 1941, Manchester Guardian

Charities

Report of Margaret Haigh's investigations into the amounts of money collected for charity in Manchester and Salford and how the money was spent.

 

NA 1941 G 3

14 November 1941, Manchester Evening News

Coupon Measure

Photograph of pupils being measured for clothing coupons issued by the Board of Trade.

 

NA 1941 G 4

A Destroyed School. Tribute to Pupils and Friends

Report on the "serenity and adaptability" shown by pupils during the evacuation and bombing of the school and also the kindness shown to the school.

 

Misc 1941 G 1

25 July 1941

School report of Margaret E Holmes for the Summer term.

 

NA 1941 B 1

Daily Telegraph

New Home for School

Report that the school has taken over South Manchester School for Boys and will be taking over two private schools, Broomfield in Barlow Moor Rd and Warley in Spath Rd. Didsbury. Includes a comment from Miss M Clarke that "fortunately we have salvaged all our records from the destroyed school and much of our equipment."

 

NA 1941 B 2

21 January 1941, Manchester Guardian

Manchester Girls' High School

General report that Manchester Education Committee has promised to help the school and that the school will be applying for financial help.

 

NA 1941 B 3

14 January 1941

Manchester High School for Girls

Report the school will be taking over a |"small private school" to ease the accommodation problem arising from the evacuation. Refers to the school's existing accommodation at Broomfield and Warley.

 

NA 1941 B 4

10 March 1941, Manchester Guardian

Manchester High School for Girls

Report that donations to the Grangethorpe Appeal Fund had reached over £13,000.

 

NA 1941 B 5

27 January 1941, Manchester Guardian

Another Move for a Manchester School

Photograph of girls in a classroom in the former South Manchester Grammar School.

 

NA 1941 O 1

Cokeless Schools May Close

Report on the shortages of coke for heating the school and Burnage High School.

 

NA 1941 O 2

Broken School Agreement

Report on a court ruling that parents of secondary school pupils who sign undertakings to keep their children at school until they are 16 cannot be sued if they break the contract.

 

 

 

 

   
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