A National and Industrial School was opened in 1817 on New Road and was enlarged in 1830 to include an Infants school but closed when new premises was erected on a site on Gravel Hill in 1849.
The records were deposited as part of Acc 3160 in December 1990. Catalogued by Heleen van Rossum June 1993, recatalogued by Alison Smith in April 2009.