Welshpool
and district
Victorian school days
Fish, insects - and dragons ! | ||
Some entries in official school
Log Books seem quite funny when you read
them today, although they were not meant to be ! |
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You
can't catch me !
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18th
October
1901 |
"I tried to finish the lesson on the "pike" but quite failed to catch one although the water and weather were favourable". |
This entry from the official records of Buttington School in 1888 proves that Welsh dragons were well educated... |
13th
April
1888 |
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(Welsh
dragons are supposed to be red, but we only had a green one in
stock !)
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"The
Dragon children have returned to school this week". (Some little fire-breathing dragons would have been quite useful in a Victorian schoolroom, because the children often had to light the fire when they arrived !) |
The Log Book entry shown below would not have been thought very funny by the poor little girl concerned, but it shows that boys have always been the cause of a lot of trouble at school ... |
27th
June
1884 |
"Kept M.Morris in on Friday for putting a wasp down a little girl's back". |
And some of them still are, so they say ! Back to Welshpool schools menu
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