1846-1852 - Friends' School, Park Lane, Croydon, Surrey, England [demolished in the 1880s].

Friends' School, Croydon by W. A. Frank - taken from Unbroken Community: The Story of the Friends' School, Saffron Walden 1702-1952 by David W. Bolam

Scholars studied during the day, and undertook some manual work out-of-hours.

The curriculum between 1844-1849 consisted of:

"For the girls, especially, school life was a very domestic affair. Since many were intended to be servants, or the useful wives of working men, their work took the form of a rigorous training. With six girls kneeling on the floor, each with a separate bucket, a mistress drilled them in the art of scrubbing. For a community which lived together all the year round, clothes repairs for everybody were carried out by the girls. When repair was no longer possible, the girls would make a new article: a new smock-apron for a boy, or a dress for themselves, to say nothing of the undergarments. It was not until 1860, that the Committee asked parents to supply their children with outer-clothes; even then the underwear remained the task of the girls. A few of the elder girls assisted " 1 day in the week, in washing and getting up the small linen under the direction of the laundry maid or mantua maker."" - Unbroken Community: The Story of the Friends' School, Saffron Walden 1702-1952 by David W. Bolam

"The girls had a more difficult life than the boys. Much more housework was asked of them-even to darning the boys' socks." - Unbroken Community: The Story of the Friends' School, Saffron Walden 1702-1952 by David W. Bolam