Plymouth, Plymstock School Board

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PLYMSTOCK SCHOOL BOARD

A public meeting was held in the schoolroom at Oreston on the evening of Tuesday June 13th 1871 to listen to the Unsectarian candidates for the places on the Plymstock School Board. After addresses from Professor Anthony Mr Pike and Mr Smith, all from the Plymouth School Board, the three candidates, Mr A Pearse, Mr W Pearse and Mr Underhill, were allowed to address the meeting. They were then cross-examined by various gentlemen and in the end all three candidates were unanimously adopted. The list of candidates were thus: the Reverend T Coulthard; Mr T Bulteel; Mr P Hine; Mr W Pearse; Mr A Pearse; Mr G Underhill; Mr Elford; and Mr A R Wotton.

The election took place on Wednesday June 21st 1871, under the watcfukl eye of the returning officer, Mr F W P Cleverton, and the following were selected (by only eight votes each) to serve on the Plymstock School Board:

Mr T Bulteel, Church of England, of 2 Wingfield Villas, Stoke, Devonport;

The Reverend T Coulthard, Church of England, of The Parsonage, Plymstock;

Mr Philip Hine, Church of England, of Hooe;

Mr W B Pearse, Nonconformist, of Staddiscombe;

Mr W Underhill, Nonconformist, of Billacombe.

Mr J G Norman of 2 Sea View Terrace, Lipson Road, Plymouth, was the clerk of the board in 1878-1890.

The Plymstock School Board took over the Dean and Plymstock National Schools and in 1878 built a small mixed school at Goosewell. They also built a new school at Oreston. However, St John's National School continued to be run by the church authorities.

PLYMSTOCK SCHOOL BOARD

The Plymstock School Board was formed on either (Tuesday May 30th 1871) or Wednesday June 21st 1871. Mr J G Norman was the clerk of the board in 1890.

PWDRO catalogue 1598/22 and 1598/27 give dates of existence as 1871-1903.

Oreston Board School was built by 1890 at a cost of £1,200. Miss Philippa Mary Julian was the school-mistress in 1890.

Dean National School was taken over by the Board and by 1890 they had enlarged the boys' department at a cost of about £500.

The Board had by 1890 built a small mixed school at Goosewell, at a cost of about £600.

Plymstock National School was built in 1827 and by 1890 had been transferred to the Board but St John's National School at Hooe was still conducted by the National Society. Mr William Henry Bamkin and Mrs Elizabeth Bamkin were in charge of the St John's School.

Both Dean School for Boys and Goosewell School for Girls were apparently opened in 1870.