Ernie.
You might find the following useful. It's from Enc. Brit, 1911 ed.
Brian Read
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, in England a school, generally established by
voluntary contributions, for the industrial training of children, in
which children are lodged, clothed and fed, as well as taught.
Industrial schools are chiefly for vagrant and neglected children and
children not convicted of theft. Such schools are for children up to
the age of fourteen, and the limit of detention is sixteen. They are
regulated by the Children Act 1908, which repealed the Industrial
Schools Act 1866, as amended by Acts of 1872,1891 and 1901, and
parallel legislation in the various Elementary Education Acts, besides
some few local acts. The home secretary exercises powers of
supervision,
On 4 May 2008, at 14:44, ernie pollard wrote:
> The National School in Benenden was established in 1860. In the deed
> granting land for the school, it was referred to as an Industrial
> School and the same term was used for this school in a contemporary
> letter (by the vicar writing to the Charity Commission regarding
> another local school). I have not seen the term used in later records.
> As far as I know, this school was a typical village day school for
> girls and infants from the whole community. Can anybody suggest why
> the term Industrial School might have been used in this context.
>
> Ernie Pollard
> Benenden
> Kent
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