Collection FGSD - FOREST GATE SCHOOL DISTRICT

2.15 linear metres

FGSD 1854-1898 Collection 2.15 linear metres Forest Gate School District

The 1834 Poor Law Act led to improvements in the arrangements made for the education of pauper children. Poor Law Unions, and parishes regulated by local acts, were persuaded to establish schools and to appoint schoolmasters. The policy of separating the children from their parents (who were generally considered to be a bad influence on their children) and sending them, if possible, to the country was continued and in 1866 several Middlesex metropolitan authorities were sending children to schools outside London. The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1844 made possible a further development in this field which was of significance for the metropolitan area. Unions and parishes were empowered to unite and to form a School District which then set up a large separate school for the education of all the indoor pauper children of the constituents of the district. These were usually industrial schools where both boys and girls were taught the basics of a useful trade which, it was hoped, would provide them with better prospects in future.

Forest Gate School District was formed in 1868, made up of the Hackney, Poplar and Whitechapel Poor Law Unions. The Hackney Union left in 1877.

The School District purchased an existing industrial school in Forest Gate, as well as the Training Ship Goliath, used to prepare pauper boys for a career in the Navy. The Goliath was destroyed by fire in 1875, after which the School District used the Training Ship Exmouth, managed by the Metropolitan Asylums Board.

The School District was disbanded in 1897 and the Poplar Union took over management of the school.

Source of information: Peter Higginbotham at The Workhouse website.

Records received along with the records of the successor organisation.

Records of the Forest Gate School District, 1854-1898, including minutes of the Board; minutes of the training ship Goliath; annual reports of the managers; Superintendent's reports and journal; copies of out-letters; admission and discharge registers; creed registers; and list of officers.

In 6 sections: Minutes; Annual reports; Correspondence; Admission and Creed Registers; Superintendent's Reports; Staff.

Available for general access

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

See HABG for the Hackney Poor Law Union and POBG for the Poplar Poor Law Union.

For a detailed history see website 'The Workhouse' (http://www.workhouses.org.uk).

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Records received along with the records of the successor organisation.

Records of the Forest Gate School District, 1854-1898, including minutes of the Board; minutes of the training ship Goliath; annual reports of the managers; Superintendent's reports and journal; copies of out-letters; admission and discharge registers; creed registers; and list of officers.

In 6 sections: Minutes; Annual reports; Correspondence; Admission and Creed Registers; Superintendent's Reports; Staff.

Available for general access

Copyright: City of London

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English

See HABG for the Hackney Poor Law Union and POBG for the Poplar Poor Law Union.

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

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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.

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