Like many Victorian schools in mid-Wales, it was located in remote, hilly country and was hard to reach in bad weather at a time when many roads were in a very poor condition.
This part of the Inspector's report reads -
| Seven weeks of snow, then whooping cough... |
| The official
Log Book from Llanllugan School for
1886 includes a School Inspector's report, which mentions just
some of the problems the children and teachers had to cope with. Like many Victorian schools in mid-Wales, it was located in remote, hilly country and was hard to reach in bad weather at a time when many roads were in a very poor condition. This part of the Inspector's report reads - |
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17th
September
1886 |
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"The misfortunes of this School during this year have been and are great. It lies in a most exposed position in a country of bleak and barren moorland, and therefore it was closed for seven weeks during last winter on account of snow, and now whooping cough is raging among the children. Under these circumstances..." |
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The
Inspector's report went on to say that allowances would be made for the
troubles the school had that year,
so he kindly gave the school "a Merit Grant
of Good". More about the problems of Llanllugan...
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