Girls Department

Bowesfield Lane Schools opened in 1881.

Girls Department 1881-1885

Separate Junior and Senior Girls Departments 1885-1913

Girls Department again from 1913.

Admission registers show that some girls went on to Higher Grade - click for more.

Bowesfield Lane Junior Girls School

Kelly's Directory of Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland shows that in 1894  Bowesfield Lane Junior Girls was in the charge of Miss Margaret Wilson. There were 204 girls on register with an average attendance of 197.

Dimensions of School (taken from 1904 - 1913 Log Book)

                                LENGTH        BREADTH        HEIGHT

BIG ROOM                   67 ft                    22ft                20 + half ft

CLASS ROOM             26 + half ft         21 + half ft     18 ft

Accommodation 197

i.e Big Room 141

     Class Room   56

Stockton High Street 

740 yds long, 187 ft wide (widest part), 76 ft wide (narrowest)

Bowesfield Lane Senior Girls School

Kelly's Directory of Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland shows that in 1894  Bowesfield Lane Girls School was under the leadership of Miss Liza Ferguson. There were 216 girls on register with an average attendance of 203.

JUNIOR MISTRESSES

1894 - Miss Margaret Wilson

1895 - 1914  Mrs E A Wheatley ( appointed 2 Sep. 1895)

SENIOR MISTRESSES

1894 - 1910 - Miss Liza Ferguson

     GIRLS MISTRESSES

1921 - 1925 - Miss Jessie Eden

History Lessons 1904 - 1905

Standard I Divisions I + II

1 Manners + customs of Ancient Britons

2 Caractacus

3 Boadicea

4 What the Romans did

5 The New Forest + William Rufus

6 The White Ship

7 The Lion Heart

8 Robin Hood + His Men

9 Princes in the Tower

10 The First Printer

Standard I Division III

1 "Once Upon a Time " + "Long Ago"

2 Boadicea

3 Alfred the Great, Prince + King

4 Canute the Dane

5 The Lion Heart

6 Princes in the Tower

Standard II

1 Battle of Hastings

2 The Great Charter

3 Caxton, The First English printer

4 Francis Drake

5 The Great Plague

6 The Great Fire

7 Richard Arkwright

8 Bonnie Prince Charlie

9 David Livingstone

10 The Slave Trade

ST II 1905 - 1906

 Boadicea

 Prince Arthur

Queen Margaret and the Robbers

William Caxton I

 Francis Drake I

Spanish Armada

Walter Raleigh

The Great Plague

The Great Fire

Richard Arkwright

Bonnie Prince Charlie

David Livingstone

The Slave Trade

History Lessons St.I 1905-1906

Britain in the past.

Britain (England) at the Present.

Alfred the Prince.

Alfred the King.

Canute the Dane.

The White Ship.

Robin Hood and his Men.

The Brave Men of Calais.

Joan of Arc.

Columbus + the New World.

Gunpowder Plot.

Lord Nelson.

James Watt.

Grace Darling.

Sir John Franklin.

Florence Nightingale.

Two Crosses - the Victoria + the Red.

The Little Queen.

Our Royal Family.

Robert Bruce.

Geography Lessons

Schemes of Geography

ST. II 1905 - 1906

Notions of Geography leading up to easy definitions.

Land and water generally.

Shape and size of the earth. 

General knowledge of map of England.

Scheme of Geography

ST. I 1905 - 1906

Shape of the Earth.

Knowledge of parts of a map (Map of England to be used).

Lessons on:-

A River, an Island, Lakes and Ponds, Hills and Mountains.

Knowledge of direction + points of a compass.

General local Geography e.g River Tees, River Tyne, Chief Towns in District etc.