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'''Elmfield College, York''' was a [[Primitive Methodist]] institution in [[Heworth, York]] |
'''Elmfield College, York''', (originally called "''Jubilee College''" in honour of the Primitive Methodist [[Silver Jubilee]] (1859??), was a [[Primitive Methodist]] institution in [[Heworth, York]]. The college was on the outskirts of Heworth, near [[Monk Stray]], where [[MatheMagic]] was later based. It existed from [[1864]] to [[1932]], when it merged with [[Ashville College]]. |
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The college was established in Elmfield Villa on the east side of Malton Road in 1864 as a Primitive Methodist boarding school. There were 92 boarders, 8 day pupils, and a staff of 6, with 3 part-time assistants in 1865. The average fee for boarders was £31. The school was enlarged in that year and 15 students for the ministry were admitted. There were 61 boys enrolled in 1905. In the following year the school was closed by the trustees for the Connexion, because of financial difficulties, but was reopened in 1907 when a company was formed to support it. A laboratory, workshop, and classroom costing £1,500 were added in 1909. There were said to be over 100 boys, half of whom were boarders, enrolled in 1932, when the school was closed. (fn. 81) The buildings were subsequently demolished. |
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The college was on the outskirts of Heworth, near [[Monk Stray]], where [[MatheMagic]] was later based. |
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All that is left of the college now is numbers 1 and 9 Straylands Grove, next to Monk Stray, and a long row of masters' houses along Elmfield Terrace (as far as the first bend), together with domestic staff housing in Willow Grove. No 1 Willow Grove was the Tuck Shop. |
All that is left of the college now is numbers 1 (the former "Elmfield Villa"), and 9 Straylands Grove, next to Monk Stray, and a long row of masters' houses along Elmfield Terrace (as far as the first bend), together with domestic staff housing in Willow Grove. No 1 Willow Grove was the Tuck Shop. |
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Elmfield Terrace and Willow Grove remained privately maintained streets until the 1950's when they were adopted by York City Council. Until this time, Elmfield Terrace was almost completely separated from Straylands Grove by a 6 foot wall (parallel to Straylands) with signs of the gate that must have existed to maintain its private status. |
Elmfield Terrace and Willow Grove remained privately maintained streets until the 1950's when they were adopted by York City Council. Until this time, Elmfield Terrace was almost completely separated from Straylands Grove by a 6 foot wall (parallel to Straylands) with signs of the gate that must have existed to maintain its private status. |
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However, the area now covered by numbers 3, 5 and 7, Straylands Grove, along with a lot of the surrounding land was once built upon by the college, which was an educational pioneer in many ways. |
However, the area now covered by numbers 3, 5 and 7, Straylands Grove, along with a lot of the surrounding land was once built upon by the college, which was an educational pioneer in many ways. No. 9 was built in the 1920's as the headmaster's house. (The owners have recently renamed the house to reflect this fact). Number 1 used to have, in its garden, a very basic swimming pool of peculiar (triangular?) shape. Whether the head master allowed access to it by the pupils is unrecorded. The house was originally built c.[[1832]]. People who lived in the house prior to the foundation of the College included the [[musician]] [[Frederick Hill]]. Since closure of the College, the house has been an [[art gallery]] and a family home. |
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==People associated with Elmfield College== |
==People associated with Elmfield College== |
Revision as of 16:56, 6 November 2007
Elmfield College, York, (originally called "Jubilee College" in honour of the Primitive Methodist Silver Jubilee (1859??), was a Primitive Methodist institution in Heworth, York. The college was on the outskirts of Heworth, near Monk Stray, where MatheMagic was later based. It existed from 1864 to 1932, when it merged with Ashville College.
The college was established in Elmfield Villa on the east side of Malton Road in 1864 as a Primitive Methodist boarding school. There were 92 boarders, 8 day pupils, and a staff of 6, with 3 part-time assistants in 1865. The average fee for boarders was £31. The school was enlarged in that year and 15 students for the ministry were admitted. There were 61 boys enrolled in 1905. In the following year the school was closed by the trustees for the Connexion, because of financial difficulties, but was reopened in 1907 when a company was formed to support it. A laboratory, workshop, and classroom costing £1,500 were added in 1909. There were said to be over 100 boys, half of whom were boarders, enrolled in 1932, when the school was closed. (fn. 81) The buildings were subsequently demolished.
All that is left of the college now is numbers 1 (the former "Elmfield Villa"), and 9 Straylands Grove, next to Monk Stray, and a long row of masters' houses along Elmfield Terrace (as far as the first bend), together with domestic staff housing in Willow Grove. No 1 Willow Grove was the Tuck Shop.
Elmfield Terrace and Willow Grove remained privately maintained streets until the 1950's when they were adopted by York City Council. Until this time, Elmfield Terrace was almost completely separated from Straylands Grove by a 6 foot wall (parallel to Straylands) with signs of the gate that must have existed to maintain its private status.
However, the area now covered by numbers 3, 5 and 7, Straylands Grove, along with a lot of the surrounding land was once built upon by the college, which was an educational pioneer in many ways. No. 9 was built in the 1920's as the headmaster's house. (The owners have recently renamed the house to reflect this fact). Number 1 used to have, in its garden, a very basic swimming pool of peculiar (triangular?) shape. Whether the head master allowed access to it by the pupils is unrecorded. The house was originally built c.1832. People who lived in the house prior to the foundation of the College included the musician Frederick Hill. Since closure of the College, the house has been an art gallery and a family home.
People associated with Elmfield College
- Thomas Johnson (1863-1954), botanist - studied at Elmfield College
- Edward Thaddeus Barleycorn Barber was a student from Santa Isabel/Maribo in Equatorial Guinea who went to Elmfield College c.1886/87 before going to Edinburgh University. He was one of the first black people in York and is presumably linked with William Barleycorn, the Primitive Methodist missionary who went to Fernando Po a few years earlier. Other leading Creole families in Fernando Po (now Sao Tome) around this time included the Barber family, as well as Davis, Barleycorn, Vivour, Kinson, Dougan, Balboa, Knox, Barber, Coker and Collins,[1] although a link has been suggested with Frank Barber, Samuel Johnson's man-servant.
- James Calvert Spence (1892 - 1954), the originator of Social Paediatrics
- John Petty
- Ben Spoor
- R.G.Heys, who later went to Leeds University, and became a member of the York School Board. In January 1892 he returned to Elmfield to become headmaster. (See A.J.Peacock (c.1960, p.95), York 1900-1914 ISBN 0 9519229 0 4.)
- Sir Robert Newbald Kay - around 1929 he became a Governor of Elmfield College and was instrumental in closing the college down during the depression. He then bought the college estate. The college weas then demolished, and the estates was sold off as building plots after the necessary permissions had been arranged.
Headmasters and Governors
Initially the Headmaster was responsible for the teaching in the school, while the Governor was responsible for everything else, including the boys' moral welfare.
- John Petty
- 1892- R.G.Heys (see above)