In 1858, the Scheme for the Management and Regulation of the Free Grammar School at Burton-on-Trent was produced and approved by The High Court of…
In 1944, the Burton Grammar School Headmaster at the time, Harold Stephen Moodey, decided that a history of the school was long overdue. He set…
SCHEME FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND REGULATION of the FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BURTON-ON-TRENT in the county of Stafford and THE APPLICATION OF THE INCOME THEREOF Approved…
APPENDICES THE HOUSE OF PAGET. Throughout the history of the school, it is perhaps inevitable that contacts with the Lord of the Manor should be…
‘History of Burton upon Trent’ was published by William Wesley in 1848. It contained a brief account of the Grammar School in Friars Walk. Of…
Even by the Eighteen-fifties, Grammar School education was very ‘classic’ with such subjects as Latin, Greek and Hebrew. The curriculum had simply not moved with the…
Opportunities for education were limited in the eighteenth century. Many children were employed six days a week in such establishments as local cotton mills leaving…
The Education Act of 1870 made schooling compulsory for all children from the age of five to age thirteen. It was sometimes known as Forster’s…
Burton Abbey was founded in 1002 by Wulfric Spot, the extremely wealthy Earl of Mercia, and was granted a charter by King Ethelred in 1004.…
PART 1 This is a transcription of Harold Moodey’s ‘Outline History of the Burton Grammar School’ as appears on the website as a series of…