Grade II Listed Buildings in Hertfordshire - Watford Grammar School for Boys, Goldings Estate, Broxbourne Railway Station, Verulam House (Paperback)

Chapters: Watford Grammar School for Boys, Goldings Estate, Broxbourne Railway Station, Verulam House, St Albans, Little Munden Primary School, Lannock Mill, Weston, Breachwood Green Mill, King's Walden, Croxley Green Windmill, Goldfield Mill, Tring, Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, Colney Heath Mill, North Mymms, Brent Pelham Windmill, Letchworth Garden City Railway Station, Beckingham Palace, Scott's Grotto, Watford Palace Theatre, Manor Lodge School, Red House, Buntingford. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Watford Grammar School for Boys - Watford Free SchoolIn 1704, Mrs Elizabeth Fuller of Watford Place built the Watford Free School for forty boys and twenty girls on her land next to the churchyard, with rooms for a Master and a Mistress. The school-house was a fine structure at the south-west corner of St Mary's churchyard, and can still be seen there. In 1708 Mrs Fuller endowed the school with a rent-charge of 52 a year. The boys were taught to read, write and cast accounts, and the girls to read English, to knit and to sew. The 52 a year was augmented with bequests, producing a revenue of 178, but the rent-charges were fixed and lost their value through inflation. Despite the help of endowments and gifts, the original charity school was in a sad state by the 1870s, when an application to the Charity Commissioners to sell part of the endowment to pay for overdue repairs led to an enquiry into the school. In 1878 the Commission forbad the school from admitting any more pupils in its current state, and asked the trustees to choose between turning the school into a public elementary school or amalgamating with a sum of 13,333/6/8d from the Platt Foundation for Aldenham School to form a new middle class school. With some reluctance, the trustees ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=4337276