Lewes

Scope and Contents note Paperwork and correspondence between the Clerk to the Governors and the Superior General of Bermondsey Community (based at Chislehurst) relating to the running of St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Bermondsey, and infrequently to St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Eltham. Includes: a history of St Mary's RC School, Arnold's Place, Bermondsey (as the girls' school was known) to 1913; the employment of staff and appointment of governors; air raid precautions, requisitioning of school...

Scope and Contents note Log for the Junior and Senior Boys' Departments with the following headings: visits, reports, absences, changes in staff, temporary teachers, timetable, teaching by Head Teacher, Assistant in charge, closures, attendance, circulars, registers, fire drill and misc. Handwritten in London County Council log books.Annotated with various school reference numbers: "School Numbers 1185 Board of Education, 014A L.C.C., 10 District No (L.C.C.) Renaming of schools, November 18th 1935. See...

Scope and Contents note Reminiscences (dated 1938-1945) of the Bermondsey Sisters' evacuation with school children to Lewes, East Sussex, and the remote preparation beforehand. A letter from M. Bonaventure Hill RSM recounting the Bermondsey evacuation, sent from St Cecilia's, 8 Ferrers Road, Lewes and written between 22 and 27 September 1939. The letter gives a lot of interesting detail, particularly regarding the problems of billeting in a strange town. A list of "Sisters who taught in Bermondsey/Evacuation during...