Bibliography and Sources

School Rules and Regulations, c1857  A set of rules given to the parents of Bromley Common National School.

Head Teachers The head teachers from 1837 to the 1950s together with some of their details.

Reminiscences of the school. Two ex-pupils write about Bromley Common (CE) Primary School in the 1920s and 1930s.

Copies of the school accounts were sent to all the financial supporters of the school in Victorian times.

Other Schools in Bromley Common.  In 1846, they included dame schools, Sunday schools,  the Bromley National School and some schools for the children of richer families. Later, there was the Middle Class School.

Mission School The Bromley Common Mission ran a Sunday school from 1861 for non-conformist families.

Bromley School Board From 1888 to 1902, they ran those schools in Bromley which were not run by the churches.

The Bromley Education Committee  ran most of the schools in Bromley from 1904. Includes the beginning of state secondary education in Bromley.

Bromley School Rules in 1909  Extracts from a booklet produced by Bromley Education Committee.

Reports  Some examples of Victorian report forms from Bromley National School.

Copy Book  Some pages from a Victorian copy book.

Homework  In 1870, the head teacher of Bromley Boys School set the boys some homework for the Christmas holiday. Can you answer all the arithmetic queations?

Dictation  An example of a passage used for dictation at Bromley Boys School.