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frontcentre	Denby Lane School replied on: 6/5/2008 2:18:42 PM Are there any plans for future use of this landmark. Last I saw, it just appeared to be sitting doing nothing. This is actually a crying shame. Couldnt the society take it over and use half for a show place for the memorabilia, etc. The other half would make an excellent working model of the schools of the time. Teachers could bring their classes for a day trip and actually use the facility to teach the little darlings how it used to be (and really how good they have it now). There is an old school house near where I am now and it is used very successfully in this way. Would be a crying shame for another bit of history to be demolished because no one used it. There are perhaps other uses for this historic site. Ideas?
philfred	Denby Lane School replied on: 10/26/2006 7:14:10 PM From Bulmers 1895 Directory, Mrs Eliza Dickens mistress National School house Jessop Street From Kellys 1881, Miss Eliza Goodwin, infant's mistress, National School. Hopefully the above will be of use. regards Phil
porkpiebaby	Denby Lane School replied on: 10/14/2006 9:29:49 AM Hopefully I'll get some response, I know it's a while since the original thread. I've just discovered my great grandma was a teacher (as I am for my sins!) In 1885 she had a child and was stated as a school teacher then. She lived in Loscoe. Since the school on Loscoe Denby Lane only opened in 1895, where do you think she would have taught? I can't believe she would have travelled very far in those days. Any ideas?
frontcentre	Denby Lane School replied on: 2/23/2006 8:38:31 PM Remember those screens. It was a notch on the pole depending on which side of the screen you sat. Remember having to Embroider(eek!) a table cloth in the last year. Cant remember what the boys did at that time. Remember having to line up, by class in the yard, when the whistle went.
Jennypeg Researcher	Denby Lane School replied on: 2/23/2006 9:07:23 AM First headmistress Miss Carrington Headmistress Miss Gillott retired 1929 Headmistress Miss Dean retired 1966 Headmaster Mr Holloway 1966- Mr G Mellor Mr Flory Mrs Wardle Must be more?????????????
Jennypeg Researcher	Denby Lane School replied on: 2/23/2006 7:02:09 AM RIPLEY AND HEANOR NEWS 1ST NOVEMBER 1895 OPENING OF NEW SCHOOL AT LOSCOE For a long time the question of school accommodation for Loscoe has been a matter for consideration. Children have previously been compelled to go a distance of nearly a mile to school, but thanks to the enterprising efforts of the Butterley Company, this long felt want is now a thing of the past. A fine block of schools have just been built in Denby-Lane a very healthy locality, and we may state that the site could not be a more suitable one. It is not only out of the hearing of the public, to whom schools are sometimes an annoyance, but the site will afford the teaching staff much better advantages for imparting instruction, as they will be free from outside disturbances. Building operations commenced about the latter end of March this year, and so successfully have they been carried out that it was decided to open the schools on Wednesday. They present a very becoming appearance, and it is evident at a glance that one of the principal features of the architect was to provide plenty of air and lighting, as they are only spacious but lofty, and the windows are also of good dimensions. In the front are two classrooms each 20ft by 18ft while running lengthways at the back to the full extent of the two former is a large room, which by a petition can be ingeniously converted into two, each of which is 40ft by 18ft. One of these is to be utilised for girls only and the other is a mixed department. The comfort of the school has not been neglected, for two massive fireplaces have been put in each of the schools, which are calculated to throw out plenty of warmth, and there is also one in each of the classrooms. There are two playgrounds, one on either side of the schools, and these will afford plenty of scope for recreation. The whole has been surrounded with a good substantial boundary wall. The interior of the schools presents a striking appearance. The whole of the furniture is new, and comprises all modern equipments. The desks are so constructed that they can be converted into tables or seats as the occasion may require, and suspended on the walls are pictures bearing Scriptural and other subjects for the instruction of the scholars. Some idea of the quality and substance of the furniture may be gleaned from the fact that it has cost over £100, and has been supplied by the firm of Messrs. J. Wright and sons of Nottingham. The schools have been built to accommodate in all 237, 105 girls and 132 infants. The sit comprises an area of 15,000 square yards. The work is very creditable and reflects the greatest credit, not only on the architect. Mr. J. Holbrook, of Heanor, but on the builder Mr. Earnshaw, who was responsible for the brickwork. The other portion of the work was executed by the Butterley Company’s men, and the whole was under the direction of Mr. H. R. Watson, whose energies on behalf of the undertaking have been of a very marked character. The architect’s estimate was £1,160, and the schools have been completed for £28 under that sum, so it will be seen economy has studied to some extent as regards the building operations. Towards this sum, the Butterley Company have very generously given half, and the other is to be made up by subscriptions. The managers of the schools are Messrs F. Beresford Wright, Fitz-Herbert Wright, A.F. Wright, F. C. Corfield, and Rev. W. Bates.

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