Just an addition to yesterday’s blog/text. The redbrick building on the right, behind he Trippett detached burial ground (s.p.b.), is part of Charterhouse Lane School. This elementary ‘board school’ was one of the 37 board schools built between 1870 and 1902 by the municipal authority by the terms of the 1870 Education Act which required elementary schools be built where none currently (then) existed. This was a cardinal point in the evolution of state education and Kingston upon Hull’s response was very significant, all the 37 board schools being architect designed and built to the highest standards of the time.
For a long time this building has appeared disused but maybe used for storage.
When first used by local children up to the age of 11 the authority were in the process of developing Trippett burial ground as a local ‘pocket park’ (s.p.b.).
Clearly this building remained in use as a school into the post-War period as I know of a retired teacher living in Barton whose first teaching job was at this school. I presume it must then have been a small secondary school as he was employed as a teacher of woodwork. His general remembering of the school was ‘Rough as they come’, probably building and students. His journey to work was New Holland ferry followed by a brisk walk.
Not only do 12 of the 37 survive but a few are still in use as primary schools; Stepney Lane and St. George’s Road schools come to mind.