| Description | Includes Board of Governors’ minutes 1979-1991, headmistresses' reports 1955-1990, headmistresses' retirement presentations 1955 and 1979, headmistresses’ correspondence 1938-1969, staff register 1928-1967, staff contracts 1962-1989, salaries and wages records 1954-1973, school admission register 1965-1991, school council minutes 1947-1991, pupils’ scrap books containing material on current affairs in Germany, Austria and Czechoslavakia 1938, circular letters to parents 1978-1991,examination records 1930-1979, open day and speech day files 1961-1990, Golden Jubilee records 1988, visitors’ book, financial statements 1929-1955, cash and account books 1935-1968, school propspectuses 1948-1990, organisational assessment survey 1988, Education Bodies minutes and associated papers files 1949-1960, architectural plans and drawings 1930, 1956, 1964 and 1970, photographs of school pupils, staff, school life and school buildings and grounds 1928-1990, school magazines 1929-1987, scrapbooks 1928-1991, audio recording 1983, Old Girls’ Association, magazines 1946-1995, new Hunmanby Methodist Church records 1955-1959, 'The Conqueror's Gems' compiled for the Old Girls' Association Diamond Jubilee by Genista W Dawson 1992 |
| AdminHistory | Hunmanby Hall School was a residential school for girls and occupied the premises of Hunmanby Hall near Filey, North Yorkshire. The property had been previously owned by Lord Nunburnholme, but was purchased by the Wesleyan committee for secondary education in 1927, with the intention of converting it into an 'all girls' school. It opened in September 1928, with Miss Hargreaves as Headmistress, and provided education for 250 junior and secondary pupils for over sixty years until economic recession made it difficult to attract new pupils to the school and led to its closure in 1991. During the Second World War the school was evacuated by Sep 1940, with the senior school in Ilkley and the junior and middle school in the Lake District. The headmistresses of Hunmanby Hall School were Frances Hargreaves 1928-1955, Helen Darby 1955-1967, Mary Bray 1967-1979, Joan Jefferson 1979-1986 and Jean Rutherford 1986-1991. The property was later sold for redevelopment in 1996.
Sources: 'The Story of Hunmanby' (reference DDHS/3/7) and 'Hunmanby Hall School Records', John Rylands Library, http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data2/spcoll/hunmanby/ |