dunsbyowl1867 Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Later Firth Park Grammar School Any further information & who lived there? http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s05886 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Later Firth Park Grammar School Any further information & who lived there? http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s05886 There's a decent potted history here http://www.firthparkgrammarschool.co.uk/school01.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gramps Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 http://www.firthparkgrammarschool.co.uk/brushes02.htm http://www.firthparkgrammarschool.co.uk/brushes01.htm http://www.firthparkgrammarschool.co.uk/school01.htm The first mention of the Brushes I've found is in the Letters Patent of Queen Mary in connection with the Burgesses petition of 1554. Hunter has it all in Latin, but the translation seems to be - "also of and in one cottage and one croft of land with apputenances lying at the Brushes in Sheffield aforesaid now in the tenure of Rowland Archdale." This may allude to the actual Brushes homestead or perhaps only to a cottage and croft in that general vicinity. Eastwood suggest the house belonged to a family called Nutt (also of Raisen Hall) in 1681 and the Booths acquired it via a marriage with a daughter of the Nutt family. Harrison in 1637 mentions a tenement called Grub House, or the Brushes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lysanderix Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 Being an Old Firparnian I knew something of the schools history, including it firstly being established, as an all boys institution ,in a house in what is now Abbeyfield Park …until a move to the Brushes ….both occurred after the end of the Great War. I therefore find it strange to see the post card shows a group of boys and girls in a classroom some ten years before I was led to believe the school was established. I do not remember anywhere in my school which had a tiled area such as the one appearing in the post card…..so, I wonder, are we talking about the same building? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 Is it certain that it is Sheffield. https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/258293 There was a Brushes Primary School, Sheffield Road, Chesterfield according to this photograph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 Likely to be the Whittington Brushes School on Sheffield Road at Sheepbridge, Chesterfield, they had infant and standard 1 & 2 classes in the early 1900's. "The Brushes" was a small hamlet between the Midland Railway and the Sheffield Road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 The Brushes, Sheepbridge, Unstone and Broomhill Park. https://m.facebook.com/groups/139754463499901/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 9 hours ago, SteveHB said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165879997867 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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