Sources for Education in Cardington

The former Cardington Lower School Christmas Eve 2010

The following list comprises sources for the study of education in Cardington.

• W849: report by James Lilburne on Samuel Whitbread's School: 1802;
• X25/28: Bedfordshire Institution papers: c.1839;
• Bedfordshire Times: erection of new boys' school: 7 Jul 1849;
• SDCardington3: Register for Girl's School (name, residence, age, denom., father's occ.): 1849-1871;
• SDCardington4: Register for Boy's School: 1849-1871;
• SDCardington5: Index to Registers: 1849-1870;
• SDCardington7: Day School Report Books: 1849-1871;
• SDCardington2: School Inventory: 1852;
• P38/29/1: admission register: 1861-1871;
• -SDCardington6: Girl's and Boy's Registers: 1867-1870;
• SDCardington1: School Inventory (single sheet): 1871
• SDCardington8: Committee Minute Books: 1871-1894;
• SDCardington10: school logbook: 1871-1898;
• W4040 p.49: Whitbread Estate improvement ledger notes work on school: 1890-1895;
• SDCardington14: admission register: 1893-1978;
• SDCardington9: Committee Minute Books: 1895-1903;
• P38/0/5: school used for services during church restoration: 1897;
• SDCardington11: school logbook: 1898-1923;
• SDCardington13: punishment book: 1902-1929;
• E/SA3/1/2: managers' amd inspector's reports: 1903;
• E/TE5/3: details of teachers: 1904-1908;
• CTM17/39: mortgage of school to raise money for enlargement: 1905;
• E/TE5/2: details of teachers: 1908-1912;
• Z50/24/76: postcard of Howard Reading Room and school: c.1910;
• E/IN1/1: inspector's reports: 1911-1936;
• Z50/24/68: photograph of Cardington Green looking towards school: c.1915;
• SMM7: school managers' minutes: 1923-1957;
• SDCardington12: school logbook: 1923-1957;
• SDCardington20: Correspondence concerning attempt to close school in 1948;
• E/IN1/2: inspector's reports: 1951-1959;
• SDCardington15/1: school logbook: 1957-1980;
• SMM7/3: school managers' minutes: 1958-1974;
• CA8/909: building maintenance file: 1963-1983;
• SDCardington19: reports to managers, 1964-1978;
• SDCardington21: Certificates (2) from the Bedfordshire Competitive Musical Festival recording the award of first place to the Cardington School Choir for the Leslie Bowles Challenge Cup: 1964-1965;
• SDCardington19: Cast list for "Then and Now - a history of our school from 1848 to the present day", 1973;
• SMM30/1-3: governors' reports and correspondence: 1976-1983;
• SDCardington25: Trophy awarded by the Save The Children Fund to Cardington Lower School: 1978;
• SDCardington16: admission register: 1978-1981;
• E/TE2/2/L17: details of school: 1978;
• SDCardington18: Programmes of events at the School e.g. plays, sports day, harvest festival, Easter etc.: 1979-1982;
• SDCardington15/2: school logbook: 1980-1983;
• E/SC1/Gen5-6: details on school and proposals for transfer of pupils on closure: 1981;
• PCCardington26/1: Small Rural Schools, A Consultative Paper: 1982;
• SDCardington17/1: Coloured photograph of Sports Day: 1982;
• SDCardington17/2: Coloured photograph of Dancing group: 1982;
• E/SC1/Car1-2: papers on closure of school: 1982