Records of Bradford Friends First Day School 1850-1943
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Society of Friends England Yorkshire History Sources
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A Friends First Day School opened in Bradford in March 1850, on the initiative of mill owner John Priestman. He and his partner James Ellis had already established a Ragged School in a building near the Soke Flour Mill. Children from a neighbouring street were taught there on weekdays. The First Day School used the same premises on Sundays to teach reading, spelling and scripture knowledge. 69 children from very poor families in the local area were admitted. Writing was not taught until 1854, an...
