Fonds Y/ED - Gt. Yarmouth Borough: Education Department

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Reference code

Y/ED

Title

Gt. Yarmouth Borough: Education Department

Date(s)

  • 1713-1980 (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

51 series

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Name of creator

(1974-)

Administrative history

Great Yarmouth Borough Council was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act of 1972.

Archival history

The Education Offices were burnt out during an air raid in 1941. However, many of the earlier records survived and are listed here.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Received by the Norfolk Record Office on 10 February and 24 July 1964 (numbered Y/ED 1-473), 17 October 1969 (numbered Y/ED 474-476), 22 December 1976 (numbered Y/ED 477-481), 11 November 1976 (numbered Y/ED 482), 28 July 1987 (numbered Y/ED 495-870), 11 January 1977 (numbered Y/ED 483-494), 12 April 1967 (numbered Y/ED/S 1-2), 14 April 1967 (numbered Y/ED/S 3-4), 28 April 1967 (numbered Y/ED/S 4-33), 12 May 1967 (numbered Y/ED/S 34-35), 14 July 1967 (numbered Y/ED/S 36-39), 26 September 1967 (numbered Y/ED/S 40-48), 2 November 1967 (numbered Y/ED/S 49-58), 6 November 1967 (numbered Y/ED/S 58(a) -70), 20 November 1967 (numbered Y/ED/S 71-78), 24 November 1967 (numbered Y/ED/S 79-80), 1 March 1968 (numbered Y/ED/S 90-92), 8 January 1969 (numbered Y/ED/S 93), 1 July 1970 (numbered Y/ED/S 94-107), 3 May 1973 (numbered Y/ED/S 107(a)), 7 October 1970 (numbered Y/ED/S 108), 8 October 1975 (numbered Y/ED/S 109-113), 24 October 1979 (numbered Y/ED/S 114), 27 July 1982 (numbered Y/ED/S 115) and 9 September 2008 (numbered Y/ED 870-910) listed October 2008 (LP).

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Scope and content

Y/ED 1-5 Yarmouth School Board Minutes, 1875-1903
Y/ED 6-58 Education Committee and Sub-committee Minutes, 1903-1944
Y/ED 59-65 Letter Books, 1936-1941
Y/ED 66-99 Cash Books and Financial Records, 1893-1947
Y/ED 100-154 Miscellaneous Records, 1903-1946
Y/ED 155-157 Plans of Cobholm, Stradbroke Road and Barracks Schools, 1912-1927
Y/ED 158-162 Printed Acts and Circulars, 1888-1942
Y/ED 163-268 Grammar School Foundation, 1905-1945
Y/ED 269-320 Bluecoat Charity School and Yarmouth Exhibition Foundation, 1713-1941
Y/ED 321-324 East Anglian School for the Deaf and Partially Sighted, 1912-1944
Y/ED 325-328 Gorleston Remand Home, 1934-1940
Y/ED 329-476 Records of Closed Schools
Y/ED 477-494 Annual Reports, 1875-1972
Y/ED 495-578 Committee and Sub-Committee Minutes, 1941-1974
Y/ED 579 School Medical Officer's Reports, 1910-1956
Y/ED 580-634 Copies of Out-letters, 1941-1954
Y/ED 635-640 Financial and Staff Records, 1946-1954
Y/ED 641-693 Education Policy, 1945
Y/ED 694-714 H.M.I. Reports, 1905-1962
Y/ED 715-736, 898-910 Schools and Pupils, 1941-1974
Y/ED 737-815 School Buildings and Capital Projects, 1877-1972
Y/ED 816-823 School Opening Files, 1950-1961
Y/ED 824-827 Advisors and Joint Bodies, 1948-1974
Y/ED 828-870 Individual Schools
Y/ED 871-897 Printed abstracts of borough accounts issued by the Treasurer to the Education department
Y/ED/S Records of other Yarmouth Schools transferred by their Head Teachers

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Numbers not used: Y/ED 333, 563, 707, 722, 729-731, 768, 834

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Related units of description

Other education records among the Borough Archives include those of the Children's Hospital (Y/L 3, Y/D 9/1), Proprietary Grammar School (Y/L 16/24), Art School (Y/TC 86/5), Runham Vauxhall School Board (Y/TC 79), and British School (Y/TC 86/11).

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Status

Catalogued

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