LONDON SCHOOLS EVACUATED TO CRANLEIGH

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: ACC/3531
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: LONDON SCHOOLS EVACUATED TO CRANLEIGH
Date(s)	: 1939-1943
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.16 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Shillington Street Boys' School | Clapham Junction

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The log book was kept by Mr Austin Brewer, headmaster of Shillington Street Boys' School, Clapham Junction, while the school was evacuated to Cranleigh, Surrey from September 1939 to August 1943. There is only one entry in the log book before May 1940 when it records that Allfarthing Lane, Shillington Street, Swaffield Road and Waldron Road Schools combined under Mr Brewer. In July 1940 Saint Peter's Church of England School, Wapping arrived in Cranleigh, having been re-evacuated from Brighton, but their children did not combine with the children from the other London Schools until May 1941. By May 1943 the number of pupils was falling. Mr Brewer decided to retire and the London school children combined with the local Church of England School.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Log book kept by Austin Brewer, headmaster of Shillington Street Boys School, while school was evacuated to Cranleigh, including newspaper cuttings and leaflets regarding local events, 1939-1943.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

One volume.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: City of London.

Finding aids:

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

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

This log book was given to Surrey Local Studies Library in 1989 by Mr Brewer's daughter and transferred to the Greater London Record Office (now the London Metropolitan Archive) in 1995 (Acc/3531).

Allied Materials

Related material:

For log books and diaries kept by other London schools during their wartime evacuation see LCC/EO/WAR/5/1-25. For log books of Shillington Street School, renamed Shillington School in 1951, see LCC/EO/DIV9/SHI/LB/1-5. For admission and discharge registers 1874-1938 and 1948-1979 see LCC/EO/DIV9/SHI/A + D/1-6.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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:
April to June 2009