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Newton Road Board School

The whole of the school c1910
Newton Road Schools c1910

Some interior pictures of the class rooms 1910
Inside a classroom in 1910
Inside a classroom 1910

Rushden Echo, 14th July 1916, transcribed by Kay Collins

Y.L.U. – Last night the following programme was given by the Newton-road Infants in the Park-road Wesleyan schoolroom in aid of the National Children’s Home and Orphanage: Song, The cheerful dandelion; game, Fair Rosie; recitation, Rainbow Fairies, Mary Clark; game, How d’ye do, my fair maid; recitation, The Land of Nod, Edna Hodgkins; game, I took a walk; recitation, If, Bertie Green; song, Once I got into a boat; game, I see you; recitation, A child’s song in spring, Maisie Bettles; ribbon dance; recitation, The new moon, Edward Durham; duologue, Where are you going to my pretty maid?, Amy George, Bertie Green; maypole dances.



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