THORNE COUNTY SECONDARY BOYS SCHOOL RECORDS

Comprising: logbooks 1920-1938; admission registers 1920-1928; other records 1878-1962

This school was built by the Thorne School Board (for records see SB15) and opened in 1877 with Mixed and Infants departments. With the abolition of school boards by the 1902 Education Act, from 1904 the schools were managed by the West Riding County Council as council provided schools. In 1920 a new Boys Department, separate from the Mixed Department was formed (see SR38/1/1 page 1). New premises were built by the West Riding County Council and these opened in 1928. Under the Hadow reorganization scheme of 1930 the school became a Senior Boys School from January 1931 taking boys from 11 years of age. Boys aged eight years were transferred to the Junior Mixed Department and those of nine and ten to the Grammar School Junior Boys Department (see SR38/1/1 page 139). After the 1944 Education Act the school was recognised as a separate school, rather than the boys department of Thorne Senior School and the official title of the school became Thorne Senior Boys Council School (see SR38/1/2 page 104) but was also known as Thorne Modern School and Thorne Boys Secondary School.

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