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Old Wesleyan Chapel and School, Church Street, Aug 2001
Mr Caleb Camburn, c1910. Headmaster of Wesleyan School, and later first Headmaster of All-Age Council School.
"School Boys, Hungerford - Hocktide Festivities" 1902, (at the Wesleyan School in Church Street. The Tuttiman is George Batt, baker at 50 High Street). [Sir J Benjamin Stone]
"School Girls, Hungerford - Hocktide Festivities" 1902, (at the Wesleyan School in Church Street. The Tuttiman is George Batt, baker at 50 High Street). [Sir J Benjamin Stone] (Kindly sent by Dr Jim Whittaker, Jun 2016)
"School Girls, Hungerford - Hocktide Festivities. Mr Camburn, Master" 1902. (at the Wesleyan School in Church Street). [Sir J Benjamin Stone]
Wesleyan School children, c1909. Mr Caleb Camburn in back row, left. [Mapson, undated, from Primary School collection]
Wesleyan Schools, Jul 1910. prior to the move to the All-Age Council School. The building was later converted to several residential flats.
The senior pupils at the Wesleyan School, July 1910, shortly before it closed. (Kindly sent by Emma Mulder, Jun 2018)
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