The author, Susan Moore, spent weeks sifting through the Corley School Log Books while doing research into local village schools. She painstakingly wrote out all the names of teacher's and children, plus interesting events. From several hundred pages, the email booklet is approx 22 pages.
Please request a free email copy when you purchase the Village Schools Book:
'I Remember Bare Bottoms & Stinging Nettles'. £11 + £2.50 p&p.
Order by email: fillongleypub @ btinternet.com
(Non purchasers of the book can also order an email copy of the edited log books: £5.)
(The Book is available new from Amazon. BEWARE: Secondhand copies have been as much as £49.)
If you wish to do your own research, the original log book/s are held at Warwick Record Office. A copy is also held at Bournebrook School, Fillongley
The 'History' of Corley School, and Corley Open Air School are in the book -
'I Remember Bare Bottoms & Stinging Nettles."
Within a four mile radius of Fillongley was the most amazing collection of village schools. Sadly, most are now closed.
Each village school was different to the next. Some were good, some strict, others impoverished where the staff struggled to provide even a basic education. Surprisingly, hidden away in the Warwickshire Countryside were two 'experimental' schools, one at Corley for sick children, the other at Shawbury for Birmingham boys who had been in trouble with the 'law'. Each school has a 'story' to tell, some poignant and moving. The book has been beautifully compiled with illustrations, photographs, and memories of staff and children.
Schools included:
Arley Schools -
Herbert Fowler, Church of England School and Gun Hill
Astley School
Corley Open Air School
Corley School
FILLONGLEY SCHOOL
Little Packington School
Maxstoke School
Meriden School
1922: CORLEY SCHOOL - MAY DAY : Dick Evrall, Wally Courts, 4th - Les Lines, Rowland Gibson, Edgar Rice, Wal, Sid Woodward, Harry Steele.
CORLEY SCHOOL MAY DAY- IF YOU KNOW ANY OF THE CHILDREN PLEASE LEAVE DETAILS - ON THE CONTACT PAGE
1930s CORLEY SCHOOL MAY DAY in field oppoairw the school. If you have any information please provide details on the contact page. The two boys on right: Archer.
