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SWAYLANDS SCHOOL, KENT


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/3605

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SWAYLANDS SCHOOL, KENT

Date(s): 1957-1959

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.5 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Swaylands School | Kent

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Swaylands School was a residential special school for educationally subnormal boys maintained by Middlesex County Council (MCC).

After the passing of the 1944 Education Act, the MCC expanded its provision for special education increasing its number of residential schools from one to ten, many accommodated in large mansions in the home counties. Swaylands was a 19th century Tudor style house situated at Penshurst, near Tonbridge, in Kent.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Swaylands School, consisting of interior and exterior photographs of the building, including photographs of school lessons, prize giving and the school fete, 1957-1959.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Four items

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated to the Archive in 1995.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Disabled children | Disabled persons | Disadvantaged groups
Photographs | Visual materials
Special schools | Schools | Educational institutions

Personal names

Corporate names
MCC | Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council
Swaylands School | Kent

Places