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Reference Number468 BA8068/1-19 (1-4 and 11-13 at b468)
Hierarchy Browser Number191/197s/15
TitleWorcester Royal Grammar School
Description1/1. Register of the Foundationers of Queen Elizabeth's Free Grammar School, Worcester, 1851-1903, including cuttings relating to opening of new buildings in 1896 and examination reports.
1/2. Class book, 1857-1863.
1/3-3/2. Admission register sheets, nos 1-3815, 1898-1945.
3/3-4/1. Admission registers, entries 300-1173, 1909-1919.
4/2-4/3. Governors' signed minute books, 1893-1909 (with cutting relating to opening of new buildings in 1909) and 1909-1932.
5. c50 deeds and associated papers relating to freehold and copyhold property in Windmill Field, Bucks Head Field, White Lady Field, Great Pitchcroft, Flag Lane and dwellings called Thorneloe House and Baskerville House in Claines [now Worcester City], the property of the Six Masters, 1774-1855 and 1926 (Baskerville House, Barbourne, Worcester only). Cooksey, Scarlett, Smart, Richards, Hyde and other families.
6/1-6/11. Copy and sealed orders and schemes of Board of Education and Charity Commissioners relating to the School and various bequests, 1893-1929.
6/12. Copy deeds, correspondence and other papers relating to the school and properties owned by the Six Masters in The Butts, The Tything and High Street, Worcester, 1893-1935.
6/13. Plan of proposed alteration to the Lamb and Flag public house in The Tything, Worcester, scale 1 inch to 8 feet, 1900.
7. c30 reports of Headmaster to Governors, 1903-1924, and c10 reports of examinations, 1905-1922.
7/3-8. c120 statements of account, estimates and other papers, 1893-1952.
9-12. Ledgers, 1893-1934, cash books, 1893-1949, day book, 1881-1893 (includes various cuttings), pupils' fees register, 1934-1935, and masters' salaries summaries, 1944-1955.
13-16. Letter books, 1893-1903, 1914-1922 and 1928-1931, and copy letters, 1931-1934.
17-18/2. Correspondence, copy Governors' minutes, address book and other papers, 1900-1951.
18/3. Photograph album [of Francis J Eld, headmaster, 1860-1893] mainly containing pictures of Oxford University scenes, [mid 19th cent].
19/1. c25 form lists, 1909-1918.
19/2. Specification for building Flagge Meadow cricket pavilion and fives courts, 1909; ground floor plan of headmaster's house, 1912; sale poster relating to auction of furniture and effects of Whiteladies, 1895.
19/3. Prospectuses, 1893-1941, photographs, [c1911] and postcards, [early 20th cent] of school.
19/4. 'A Short History of Worcester Royal Grammar School' by J W Willis Bund [early 20th cent]; Rules, statutes and ordinances of the School, 1860; programmes for: opening of 'The Perrins Hall', 1915, unveiling of memorial to those killed in World War II, 1949, visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 1961.
19/5. 2 examiners' reports, 1936-1938; particulars of Worcestershire County Council scholarships, 1942; advertisement for post of headmaster, 1928.
19/6. List of pupils holding County special places and intermediate scholarships, 1942.
19/7-19/9. Photocopies of: enrolment of refoundation charter of 1561; School statutes of 1561; endowment of School of 1561, [20th cent].
19/10. Photograph of pupils, 1875.
Date1774-1961
Access ConditionsAdmission registers closed for 75 years.
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