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Prospectus 1927-8
Rushden Boot and Shoe Students

Centres of Instruction.

Classes will be held at the following Centres, provided a sufficient number of students are enrolled, and will commence on the dates:—

Kettering—School of Boot and Shoe Manufacture, Thornpate Street, September 19th.

Wellingborough—School of Boot and Shoe Manufacture, Church Street, September 19th.

These Schools are fitted with modern machinery—kindly lent by the British United Shoe Machinery Co., the Singer Sewing Machine Co., and Messrs. E. Mills & Co.—for practical instruction in the various branches of the trade. Students should enrol their names during the week commencing September 12th.


the prospectus 1927-8

Rushden

Newton Road Council School

Daventry

The Abbey School

Desborough

Council School        

Earls Barton

Council School        

Irthlingborough

Council School        

Long Buckby

Council School        

Raunds

Council School     

Lecture Classes in the Honours Stage will be held at Kettering, Rushden and Wellingborough. Students from other centres who have passed in the Advanced Stage may attend one of the Honours Classes, on application to the Superintendent of Boot and Shoe Instruction, County Education Offices, Northampton.

Fees. The fee for the session will be 5/- for Elementary and Intermediate Stages, and 7/6 for the Advanced and Honours Stages. In the case of students for whom appropriate practical instruction is not available, a portion of the fee will be remitted.

Travelling Expenses. The Education Committee are prepared to refund the travelling expenses (less one shilling in respect of each week) of the following classes of students who attend Classes in Boot and Shoe Manufacture (including Applied Science), provided they make 75% of possible attendances and attend the Examination at the end of the session:—

(a)   Students who reside in Centres where Classes are not held and attend at some other Centre :

(b)   Students in the Advanced or Honours Stages who reside in Centres where Classes of that standard are not held and attend at some other centre;

(c)   Students attending the County Schools at Kettering,

Rushden or Wellingborough for special practical subjects which are not available at the Centre in which they reside.

The allowance in any case will not exceed 3/- per week.

Applications to be included in this scheme should be made on enrolment and must be approved by the Superintendent of Boot and Shoe Instruction, on behalf of the Education Committee.

Junior Technical Course.—Classes in connection with the Junior Technical Course will probably be held at Daventry, Desborough, Higham Ferrers, Irthlingborough, Kettering, Rothwell, Rushden and Wellingborough (Victoria Evening School). Classes will be formed at other Centres should a sufficient number of students present themselves.

Applied Science Course.—Classes in connection with the Applied Science Course will be held at Irthlingborough, Kettering, Rushden and Wellingborough.

For further particulars apply to the Teachers of the Evening Schools,


Timetable for Rushden and Raunds Classes

Raunds

Wednesday

7.0 to 8.30

Practical Pattern Cutting

Inter. & Adv

Friday

7.0 to 8.30

Lecture

Inter. & Adv

Rushden

Monday

7.0 to 8.30

Lecture

Honours

Tuesday

7.0 to 8.30

Lecture

Advanced

Wednesday

7.0 to 8.30
7.0 to 8.30

Lecture
Practical Design

Ele. & Inter.
Honours

Thursday

7.0 to 8.30
7.0 to 9.0

Practical Pattern Cutting Applied Science

Advanced
First Year

Friday

7.0 to 8.30
7.0 to 9.0

Practical Pattern Cutting
Applied Science

Intermediate
Second Year


Results

Raunds Centre.

HONOURS STAGE.
Second Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Design—Sidney E. Coles, Frederick C. Robinson and Owen Young.

ADVANCED STAGE.
Second Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Pattern Cutting—Ewart Archer, Harold Clarke, Arthur Lawrence, Horace Lawrence.

Second Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Machine Lasting—Harold Ball and Reginald E. Bland (with County Council Prize value 5/-, for Homework).

INTERMEDIATE STAGE.Pass (Practical Test, Machine Lasting—Albert E. Sharp and Ray Smith.

ELEMENTARY STAGE.
Pass—Herbert P. Hodson, Kenneth W. Robinson, Albert E. Sharp.

Rushden Centre.

HONOURS STAGE.
County Council First Prize (Silver Medal and £3), First Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Clicking Room Management—Harry C. Bryant.

County Council Second Prize (Bronze Medal and £2), First Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Management of Making Department—Edward R. L. White.

First Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Design—Richard W. Bates, Walter Tyler (with County Council Prize for Practical Design).

First Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Bottom Stock Management—George A. Burgess, Horace R. Mayes (with County Council Prize for Homework).

Second Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Design—Joseph L. Bazeley, Lewis Langford, Leslie F. Shouler, William White.

Second Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Management of Closing Room— Edmund  V. Clarke.

Second Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Management of Making Department—David R. Hornsbv.

ADVANCED STAGE.
First Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Pattern Cutting (with County Council Prize for Homework)—William J. Hewitt.

First Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Bottom Stock—William Hensman.

Second Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Pattern Cutting—Denis R. Clayton, Horace Ingram, Dennis A. Knight, Walter Mole, Cyril J. Newell, Josiah S. Sharp.

Second Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Bottom Stock—Harold E. Robinson.

Second Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Machine Lasting—George E. Bazeley.

Second Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Hand Welting—Hugh L. Ward.

Second Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Machine Attaching—Henry L. Howes, Herbert Martin, John W. York.

Second Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Machine Finishing (with County Council Prize for Practical Machine Finishing)—Horace E. Allen.

Second Class Certificate and Pass in Practical Book-keeping—Edward R. I. Parker.

INTERMEDIATE STAGE.
Pass (Practical Test, Pattern Cutting)—Jack Allen, Russell J. Clark, Bert Bazeley, Francis H. Bunker, Bob Darlow, Leslie Knight (with County Council Prize for Homework), William C. Neville, Leonard B. Smith, Benjamin R. Watson, Charles L. Whiting.

Pass (Practical Test, Hand Lasting)—William F. Gomm.

Pass (Practical Test, Attaching Operations)—Bob Mitchell, Albert W. Wiggins.

ELEMENTARY STAGE.
Pass, with County Council Second Prize (Books value 7/6)—Stanley Burditt. Pass—Jack Allen, Harold Crook, Bob Darlow, William F. Gomm, A Haddon, Lewis C. Knight, James A. Smith, Leonard B. Smith, Benjamin R. Watson, Ronald H. Benning, Cyril C. Denton (with County Council equal Prize, value 5/-, for Practical PatternCutting), Cyril Freeman, Reginald M. Hall, Sydney L. Johnson, Charles J May (with County Council Prize for Homework), Walter Miller, Roland E. Newell, Ronald J. Peacock, Reginald R. Pendered, E. Ronald Reynolds, Herbert H. Rigby, Reginald C. Tarry, Edward Twelftree, Victor H. Walker.

APPLIE D SCIENCE. First Year Course:
County Council First Prize (Books value 15/-) and First Class Pass—Bernard W. Garley.

First Class Pass—Harold Ball, George A. Burgess, William R. Desborough, Albert H. Dickens, Eric J. Godfrey, William J. Hewitt, Cyril J. Newell, Josiah S. Sharp.

Second Class Pass—Joseph L. Bzaeley, Ronald E. Reynolds, Jack R. Toms.

Second Year Course:
County Council Equal First Prize (Books value 15/-) and First Class Pass—Frank Denton, Sydney Johnson.

First Class Pass—Horace R. Mayes, Edward R. I. Parker.


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