Llangurig School 8
Death of 'a dear little girl'
A very moving entry, written in 1884 in the Llangurig School Log Book, is shown here. It tells of malicious damage to the property of a child who had recently died of diptheria.
Llangurig School
Log Book
Powys
County Archives
M/E/PS/66/L1
The entry was dated 3rd October,1884 and reads:
"An incident - painful to the teacher - has occurred
this week. It must have been the work of an ill-disposed person.
I hardly think it was done by one of the scholars. The Atlas
that belonged to a dear little girl - Anne Jones - who died of
diptheria a few weeks ago was found concealed amongst some things
on the back of the gallery in the Class-room with several of
the maps covered with ink to such an extent that as an Atlas
the book is worthless. I endeavoured to show the children the
wrong of such an action whatever the object was in doing it."
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