School documents

School Deeds, plan of land donated by the Bishop of Winchester for the building of the National School.

This collection includes:

Deeds dating back to the 1840s, when the School was built.

Extract from Committee meeting minutes, 1848, discussing salaries.

A selection of extracts from the log books kept by the National School from 1863 to 1964 (when the new Church of England Primary School) was established in Chapel Street. Copies of the logs themselves can be found in the School Logs section.

Minutes of discussion of school fees in 1880.

Another PDF summarises the documents which East Meon historian Freddie Standfield deposited with the Hampshire Record Office; he had gathered these in researching the National School for his book, A History of East Meon. These include accounts of the ’Subscribers’ – early Governors – before the National School was built, records of building works, log books

Another PDF contains extracts from the school logs, including VE Day in 1945.

Creator

Various

Date of creation

1840 - 1970

Date of coverage

1840 - 1970

Place

East Meon National School and Church of England Primary School

Reference number

EM/0044/0003

Accession number

2013-12-049

Storage location

HRO holds most documents, and there are photocopies in a folder at the School, Scans in Dropbox Resources/School. Hard copy of HRO summaryLibrary O/1.

Format

PDFs of scanned documents

Downloads

School deeds - sections (10 MB Adobe Acrobat document, opens in a new window)

Sections of the deeds, dated 1844, in which the Bishop of Winchester and James Barnard made over land on which a new National School would be built.

Committee minutes Oct 19th 1848 red (640 KB Adobe Acrobat document, opens in a new window)

Scan of extract from School Committee meeting.

Extracts from log book of East Meon National School (359 KB Adobe Acrobat document, opens in a new window)

Selected sections transcribed from the log books of the National School, 1863 - 1964

Committee minutes 1880 (1 MB Adobe Acrobat document, opens in a new window)

Minutes of discussion of School Fees.

Managers' Visiting Book 1911 - 1914 (1 MB Adobe Acrobat document, opens in a new window)

Notes on the condition of the school facilities.

HRO summary of EM School records (236 KB Adobe Acrobat document, opens in a new window)

Summary of National School records held by the Hampshire Record Office

School diary extracts, World War II (8 MB Adobe Acrobat document, opens in a new window)

Copies of the school log, extracts describing events during World War II

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