CFord Schools
The first school in Chandler's Ford was held in an iron room, which doubled as a church. The first purpose built school was opened in 1893 in Bournemouth Road on the site of Selwoods. For more information see the book, "The Chandler's Ford Story" by Barbara Hillier and Gerald Ponting.
Merdon School was opened in 1956. See website for more information: www.schools.hants.org.uk/merdon-junior/history.htm
Sherbourne House School, an independent school, was opened in 1933. For more information about its history see the book: (1985) "Sherborne School - The first fifty years" by Dorothy Wise, who founded the school with her mother, Eva or visit: http://www.sherbornehouse.co.uk/server.php?show=nav.006001
It would be great if school children in Chandler's Ford would investigate the history of their school and add it to this site.
Merdon School was opened in 1956. See website for more information: www.schools.hants.org.uk/merdon-junior/history.htm
Sherbourne House School, an independent school, was opened in 1933. For more information about its history see the book: (1985) "Sherborne School - The first fifty years" by Dorothy Wise, who founded the school with her mother, Eva or visit: http://www.sherbornehouse.co.uk/server.php?show=nav.006001
It would be great if school children in Chandler's Ford would investigate the history of their school and add it to this site.
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19th Century Schooling in Otterbourne (covering Fryern Hill, Chandler's Ford)
Extracts from An Old Woman’s Outlook in a Hampshire Village (1892) by Charlotte Yonge.
The first school I remember was taught by the regular old dame of Shenstone's verse, in a high-crowned black bonnet, worn permanently; a buff, spotted handkerchief over her shoulders, tucked into a checked apron. She presided over about a dozen children in her own cottage, as picturesque as herself, sitting in the chimney-corner with her rod. But the teaching was of the very smallest description.
Then came an attempt at another school of a superior kind, in a house built for the purpose of mud, rough-cast and brick floored. Reading was taught and needlework, for a penny a week, after six years old, but writing and arithmetic were extras, not encouraged, for there was a rooted belief that if maids could write, they would write love-letters.
The boys went out to work so young that the wonder is that they learnt anything at all, and the eldest girl was always kept at home as nurse, growing tall, uncouth, and dense. We have gone through the permission to learn the three R's up to their becoming a necessity, and that greatest R of all-Religion-for the sake of which alone we taught in old times, has a hard matter to hold its own.
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