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Bramham School
Bramham National School was rebuilt by subscription in the 1830's, possibly
on the site of an earlier school, for the 1821 census lists William Little
as "national" schoolmaster, and church records mention Theophilus Wilde as
schoolmaster in 1788. The rival "free" school was probably housed in the
Primitive Methodist Chapel, with Joseph Wormald its schoolmaster in both
1821 and 1841. This latter census showed John Rhodes had taken over the
"national" school, to be followed in 1861 by Mr and Mrs Aspin. No mention is
made of the "free" school by that time.
Records show that the
two Methodist Chapels in the village were built in 1822 and 1826, though the
remaining Chapel in Low Way commemorates its original date as 1817 over its
doorway.
The creation in 1870
of primary state education funded by the Treasury finally established the
position of the "national" school, under parish church control.
Nonconformists, thus forced to send their children to church schools, were
often bitterly disappointed.
In 1901 Mr Walker was
the school's headmaster, with Miss Ada Drake and Miss Annie Wormald as his
assistants. Under the 1944 Education Act Bramham School came under the local
authority control of the West Riding County Council. When a new building on
the outskirts of the village was opened in September 1966, the old school,
closed that July, was demolished and replaced by a private house.
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Bramham Village
School
Mr Walker was the headmaster from 1890‑1932. He was succeeded by Mr
Hargreaves and later by Mr Banks. This picture was taken in the mid‑1920's.
In those days children could stay at the school until they were 14.
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Day School Outing
1920's and 1930's
The wagonette was taking the children from the School to Bramham Park for
their annual picnic outing. When you reached the age of seven you walked.
The children were given tea on the front lawn where Lord Bingley used to
join them and chat with the teachers. When Mr Hargreaves was the Headmaster
he used to organise a game of cricket for the boys on the cricket pitch in
the Park, while Miss Boswell and Mrs Brown, the other teachers, took the
rest of the children in pairs, crocodile style, round the Park though not
the gardens. Each child was given a rock bun to take home.
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Bramham Junior
School Class of 1933
Taken from a newspaper clipping in 1983, the pupils in 1933 were:
(back
row, left to right): John Dykes, Jeff
Dickinson, Arthur Thornton, Ernest Hatfield, Norman Eastwood;
(second row from back, standing
Arthur Simpson, Elsie Goddard, Ellen Outtern,
Betty Tate, Helen Dickinson, Laura Stockdale, Olive Tindall, Walter
Chambers, Mr Hargreaves the headmaster;
(sitting
Kathleen Sanderson, Betty Cass, Josephine Alcock, Elsie
Abbott, Grace Nicholson; (in front) William Brown, Eric Moorhouse.
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Bramham Junior
School
Two
classes of children taken in the 1960's
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Coronation Celebrations
1902 in Front Street
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Low Way
Methodist Sunday School Children
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