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Ackworth School development plan

Ackworth School development plan

Ackworth School development plan drawn by John L Denman F.I.R.B.A. 27 Queens Road Brighton. Dated 1946. showing the location of existing buildings, existing buildings altered and new buildings.

Ackworth School

Cloddiecochion

Three views, one of burial ground, two of stone cottage [meeting house] at Cloddiecochion, in Montgomeryshire, in North Wales taken October 1950

Early view of Ackworth School

Early view of Ackworth School

Early view of Ackworth School by T. Stackhouse, no date. Ackworth School was founded in 1779 by John Fothergill on behalf of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Ackworth School

Friends' Meeting House, Dolobran

Four photographs dated October 1950, of the Friends Meeting House at Dolobran in Montgomeryshire, Wales. Built in 1701 by Charles Lloyd (1662–1747) of Dolobran, whose father Charles Lloyd (1637–1698) of Dolobran was the first in the family to become a Quaker. It consists of a tiny isolated chapel built of red-brick with drip courses over the cambered windows and comprising also a two-bay cottage under the same roof. Photographs addressed to Hugh Doncaster, Woodbrooke.

Map of Friends' Meetings in Ireland

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC DX7
  • Collection
  • 1794

Large map of Friends' Meetings in Ireland, 1794, including a list of Meetings for Discipline and dates of Meetings.

Notes for talks

Dorothy Gregory notes for talks on;
• Psychology of the development of the Christian Character in the Child',
• worship and the family', Friends and other Protestant groups',
• Education for the formation of character',
• Meditation
(Dorothy Gregory was an English Friend who taught at Friend's School in the 1940's, died in Australian early 1960s).

John Roberts

Page from a small sketch book

Page from autograph or small sketch book depicting "The Little Island in the Sea" (Isle of Man) with its three legged emblem and small map, inscribed George L.L. Hodgkin (from Mayfield, Douglas), 1909. Found in a book purchased for the Quaker collection.

Photograph of an Art Class at Ackworth School

Photograph of an Art Class at Ackworth School

Photograph of an art class at Ackworth School. Showing female pupils in a circle drawing still life. Presented in a folder of images produced by E.T.W. Dennis & Sons Ltd. Art Printers, 42 Holborn Viaduct. London E.C. Works, Scarborough

Ackworth School

Photograph of Centre Library

Photograph of Centre Library

Photograph of the Centre Library at Ackworth School. Presented in a folder of images produced by E.T.W. Dennis & Sons Ltd. Art Printers, 42 Holborn Viaduct. London E.C. Works, Scarborough

Ackworth School

Photograph of Cookery Class at Ackworth School

Photograph of Cookery Class at Ackworth School

Photograph of a cookery class at Ackworth School. Showing girls in smocks in the kitchen. Presented in a folder of images produced by E.T.W. Dennis & Sons Ltd. Art Printers, 42 Holborn Viaduct. London E.C. Works, Scarborough

Ackworth School

Photograph of the Canal Bridge at Ackworth School

Photograph of the Canal Bridge at Ackworth School

Photograph of the Canal Bridge at Ackworth School. Showing boy and girl pupils non the bridge and on the bank. Presented in a folder of images produced by E.T.W. Dennis & Sons Ltd. Art Printers, 42 Holborn Viaduct. London E.C. Works, Scarborough

Ackworth School

Some Memoirs of the Life of John Roberts

• Note at front states: ‘This copy written by Daniel Clark in or about the year 28 the time soon after my father Joseph Clark received the Printed Book as a gift from my Uncle Samuel Clark, a supposition at which time that it was out of print and no other to be obtained was the cause of my copying the same. Daniel Clark’
• Note below: ‘Given to me Joseph Clark by my father D. C. 1 /10 /90
• Note on wrapper: ‘My father’s book, written by him on the British Sailing Ship “Bazora Merchant” (Bassorah Merchant) during the trip from England To Australia, landing in Australia November 1839. Mary Godson'
• Enclosed: Certificate that Daniel Clark, aged 21, came out to Sydney from Bristol in the emigrant ship “Bassorah Merchant” and that during the whole voyage which was of unusual length (141 days) his conduct was marked by the utmost propriety in every respect. Sydney 14 September 1839 James Scott, MD. Surgeon Superintendent, LRCP
• (Original printed volume ,177? and reprint 1891 in Quaker Collection PUF, Rob.)

John Roberts