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There have been quite a range of different schools. Some are schools like dame, hospital, ragged, and other school types that are not well known today. We are slowly researching these different schools. We are now familiar with many of these schools lthough we are still reseraching the historical background. We have, however, come across some schools which are unfamilar to us. Hopefully our English readers will provide us some insights here. As we sometimes do when we post these unknown images, we will keep them here even after we learn something about the school.
Here we have a class portrait from the Patcham C.S. School taken in September 1951 (figure 1). It is clearly the Second Form of a secondary school. At first we had no idea what "C.S. means. A reader tells us that Patcham is an area of Brighton - a resort on the south coast of England - I know because there is a Youth Hostel there." We thought C.S. might mean Catholic School, but then the word School would not be repeated again. "S" could mean Secondary, but we did not know what "C" means. It crossed our mind that it might mean Church of Scotland as there are many Church of England schools. A Scottish reader tells us that Scottish schools were not so identfied. Thus we were mistified as to the type of school invilved here. Thankfully our English readers helped us here. A reader writes, "I'd suggest C.S. School is English and stands for "County Secondary School", a non-denominational state school. England of course has Church of England (C of E) as well as Roman Catholic (R.C.) schools. Interestingly the Scottish denominational schools do not have "R.C." in the name but something like "Our Lady of The Rosary Primary School" tends to let you know that it's a denominational school. Another British reader writes, "I never heared of CS but I have seen CP School outside of Inner London - the so-called "Home Counties" - and think that meansCounty Primary School. Others you might see are JMI School - Junior and Infant Mixed School - as opposed to plain Junior School where the infants are in a completely seperate school."
Related Chronolgy Pages in the Boys' Historical Web Site
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[The 1950s]
[The 1960s]
[The 1970s]
[The 1980s]
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