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| The late
Alec Weston had an original copy
of the PGS Prospectus when C W H
Richardson was the headmaster and
this is also dated 1924. [School
pictured in 1924] This
details the rules and conditions
of all new pupils to the school
when the fees for a term were Two
Pounds, Three Shillings, and
Eight Pence (£2/3/8).
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Rod Crook
adds,
"The PGS Prospectus for 1924
recently posted by the Editor is
a great item for the Archive. In
passing I also remember Alex
Weston taking great pride in
showing me a brightly coloured
striped blazer dating from the
20s. It must have been for
sporting occasions
only-presumably worn with the
straw hat referred to in the
Prospectus and was probably a
minority possession. A photograph
of the blazer might be worth
pursuing for the Archive. A
couple of points to notice. The
fees remained similar up to the
time they were phased out after
the 1944 Edcation Act. In the
early 1940s I think they stood at
2 pounds and 15 shillings a Term,
as opposed to 2 pounds three
shilling and eight pence twenty
years before. This may not seem
much to the reader today, but
should be related to the typical
family wage. This might represent
perhaps 50% of a weeks wages,
impossible for many famlies and
very hard for others. The
Twenties, as noted by the Editor
were sometimes referred to as the
‘roaring twenties’ but
this was the froth on the heap of
Depression, poverty and
unemployment. For the denizens of
Prescot and environs it was not
an easy time, and the 30s were no
better. You could enter the
School in Form 1 as a fee paying
student after your 8th birthday,
and remain a pay payer
throughout, or enter in Form 3
after passing what was termed the
‘Scholarship Exam.’
Some of us changed status by
taking the Scholarship Exam while
already attending the Lower
School. The Scholarship Exam was
to become the ‘11
plus,’ and of course became
the sole method of entry until
the end of the Grammar School.
It is also interesting to notice
that the Prospectus refers to 5
acres of land. This was of course
the year of the change from the
old High Street building to the
St Helens Road site. Early in the
life of the School it was
intended that a Girls Grammar
School would be created on the
same site and the rest of the
then farmland was purchased for
the School. In other words the
site many of you remember was
much larger than 5 acres. For a
fuller discussion see
F.A.Bailey’s discussion in
the 1944 volume or reprinted in
that of 1994.
I like the bit about the four
rules of Arithmatic-presumably
these were addition, subtraction,
multiplication and
division?" |
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