High Green Primary School & Mechanics Institute.

The foundation stone was laid by the Earl of Wharncliffe in 1842 and the school opened in 1843, as both a day school and an evening school for ‘youths engaged as miners and artisans’. The schoolmaster’s house, shown on the right, was built shortly afterwards. A contemporary report stated that it would ‘furnish a most comfortable residence for those who may have the honourable, although toilsome, task of training the rising generation’.

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Archiving Reference Number A/017/a/B CHGA
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Contributor/s Original from Alan Boulton now with Chapeltown & High Green Archive
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Date Donated to the EDA 1st October 2016

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