
THE
HISTORY OF OUR SCHOOL & LOCAL AREA |
OLD PUPILS' MEMORIES

Read
some fascinating memories
of the school sent in by old pupils
here
THE 1st 100 YEARS 1805-1905


Middle
St. School 1805-1905 and its author - Mr
G.Haffenden, the Headmaster in 1905. |
    
    
Click on the pictures
for excerpts from this history of the first 100 years of Middle
Street School . |

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In the mid-19th Century
the school was very much run on the schooling system created by Joseph
Lancaster. Click the picture to find out about Lancaster and read his
booklet on 'The British System of Education'. |
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Headteachers were
required to
keep a daily log-book of events
and incidents. Click the
book for
a sample
of items recorded
in
the Middle Street log-book for
1869-1902. |
THE
2nd 100 YEARS 1905-2005


Pre-1920s 1920s
1930s
1940s

1950s
1960s & 70s
1980s & 90s
Click on the pictures above for photographs from the second hundred
years of the school's history. |
BICENTENARY
CELEBRATIONS

Activities and
celebrations linked to our bicentenary in 2005 |

Click the picture to see
some of the models of people and
incidents from the first 100 years of our
school's history
that our children made for display in Brighton museum.
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Click to see the models
and other artefacts on display
at our 'Old School' exhibition at
Brighton museum.
See Brighton Museum's record of the exhibition-
here
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Click for
photos of our Bicentenary Celebration Day. |

Click
for press coverage of our celebrations. |

Year 4 children animated some of the
above characters &
incidents.
Click to see
the video. |

Click for photos &
video of Year 4's as Victorian day. |
Test
Yourself!
When you've read all about
the history of the school - testyourself by playing 'Fling the Teacher'. Change the teacher'sface. Answer all 15 questions correctly and catapult the
teacher through
the air! Click the picture above. |
Children on CBBC TV

For a video of 4 of
our children talking to the editor of the Reader's Digest book (shown
below)
on
the CBBC TV channel click
here
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Whole School Photograph

To celebrate the
bicentenary we took a photograph of everyone in the school. Click to
see a much larger photograph. |
Old Pupil Interviews
For interviews with
ex-pupils from the 1930s & 40s click the play buttons below (interviews
are by Robyn, Stanley, Esme & Chloe and last 15-25 minutes each).
Joyce Hill
Pat Sprinthall
Peter Guy
Sheila Dyer
For a transcript
of sections of the interviews click here
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Uncovering two hundred years of
a seaside school

This double-page spread on
our school
history appears in 'The Story of Where You Live' published by The Reader's Digest.
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MORE HISTORY

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150th Anniversary
 Click for details of our 150th anniversary (1955).
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School Buildings

Middle
Street School 1905 Click
to see more
photographs and drawings of the building over the years.
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Ghosts near our school!

Here is Kai's description of a Ghost Walk in the Lanes
around our school. Click the
Play button to listen. |
The Green Man
 A Brighton character that the first pupils
at the school in 1805 would
certainly have
been familiar with was 'The Green Man of
Brighton', who
promenaded the seafront and Steyne near to the school.
Click the picture for details.
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HISTORY OF SURROUNDING AREA

Click
on the pictures: |

The sea-front
end of Middle Street in 1833 |

Historic pictures of Brighton
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Animated
Postcards of Brighton
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Historic maps of Brighton
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See how many
people lived in the houses opposite our school in 1891, and what sort of
jobs they had. |

Postcards
by Flora White |
  
Zoomable views of Brighton seafront in 1900
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HISTORY OF BRIGHTON - WEBLINKS

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Click the picture to see a selection of
British Pathe
newsreels that feature Brighton. The films date
from 1898 to 1973. |

Brighton & Hove in Pictures
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My Brighton & Hove |

History of Photography in
Brighton & Hove |

Old Sussex Mapped
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Brighton & Hove - Black History
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Brighton's Architecture
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Romans in Sussex
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The Regency Town House
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QueenSpark - Brighton in Books
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A vision of Britain through Time - Brighton |
Books on
Archive.org
These complete books are readable online
using the Internet Archive book reader. |

Life beneath the Waves & a
Description of the Brighton Aquarium 1871 |

The Brighton Chain Pier - In
Memoriam It's History from 1823 to 1896 |

Holidays at Brighton or Sea-side
Amusements 1834 |

Round About a Brighton Coach Office
1896 |

The History of Brighton and Environs
1871 |

History of Brighthelmston 1862
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A Peep into the Past Brighton in the Olden Time 1892
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Brighton and it's Coaches A History of the London and Brighton Road 1894 |
A2A - Access to Archives

allows you to search archives held
throughout England. For example searching
with 'Middle Street school' as
Keywords and 'East Sussex Record Office' as
'location' brings up several
results, including:
Middle Street County Primary
School, Brighton Photographs FILE - Middle
Street School Boys' Brigade - ref. E/SC/24/7/1
- date: 1889 FILE - Middle
Street School Old Boys' Club group photographs, 1909-1913 and
cameos of founders, 1913 - ref. E/SC/24/7/2-9
- date: 1909-1913 Other
records FILE - Middle
Street School roll of honour - ref. E/SC/24/12/1-8
- date: 1914 FILE-List of
Middle Street School records and notes for the
history of the school - ref. E/SC/24/20 -date:
20th century |
Historical Directories
Try using this
site to search old trade directories for details of particular streets.
For example the Boyce's Street entry from
Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891
reads:

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Google Book Search

The book search on Google lets you search the growing
archive of complete books and texts. For example here are links to a few with references to Brighton from the
mid 19th century:
The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-bathing Places - 1841
- has a
chapter on Brighton
Memoirs, Letters, and Comic Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, of the Late
James Smith - 1840 - has a poem about Brighton
The Penny Cyclopędia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge - 1843 - describes Brighton at the time
The Elements of materia medica and therapeutica. v.1, 1854-57 - suitability of Brighton for various types of
invalid |