Popular education in Penkridge 1775-1900

A description of the surprising variety of schools available in the community over this period, the range in quality of teaching offered, the personalities of masters, mistresses and aristocratic patrons and the perceived benefits of giving a free education to the 'deserving poor' which had led to the foundation of the charity school, originally held in the room over the church porch in the 16th cen. and which grew into the large National School of the early 19th cen..