Southwick Schools
A look at Southwick’s many schools
Saturday mornings 10.30 to 12.30 from 31st May to 12th July
The exhibition takes a look at the many schools that have operated in Southwick over the last two hundred years. Sunday School and Dame Schools, run by women in their homes, were the earliest forms of education. The National School, funded by the Church of England, was opened in 1844. In 1874 Southwick elected a School Board to build a new non-denominational school, which was opened in 1876. A National School was opened in Fishersgate in 1881 but taken over by the Southwick School Board in 1887 when it ran into financial difficulties. Alongside the Board Schools there were many private schools, The Grange, Merton House, Glenmore, St Clare, Lucy Rummage and Froebel School. A new Girl’s Secondary School was opened in 1934 on the site now occupied by Glebe Primary School and in 1952 Manor Hall Road School (now Eastbrook) was opened.
This exhibition includes lots of photographs and memories of schooldays
Roman Crescent
The buildings along this ancient road
Saturday mornings 10.30 to 12.30 from 19th July to 30th August
Until the end of the nineteenth century this was a quiet but important ancient road linking The Green with Southwick Street. The land to the south, at one time owned by Edward Knight (brother of Jane Austen), was sold in 1898 to Clement Crosskey and Alfred Brazier who had five houses of similar outward appearance built. Hope Cottages on the corner stand at the site of the original Hope Cottage, which was once a toll house. Southwick Christian Community Church at one time used a Nissan hut from the 1917 army camp on the Green. Film pioneer George Albert Smith had a connection with several of the properties and built a laboratory in the garden of number 10. Evelyn Goldsmith, author of several dictionaries for children was born in The Gables and the more modern houses on the corner with Southwick Street are on the site of a Victorian house from which the Froebel school was run.
