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IN addition to Sexey's Trade School, Bruton, the visitors of Sexey's Hospital recently (and in this case also at the instance of Mr. Hobhouse) have established a dual school of the same general type as the Bruton school in the village of Blackford, five or six miles from the nearest railway station, and in the midst of a purely agricultural district. New buildings have been erected at a cost of about 4000l., towards which the County Education Committee has contributed 1000l., in addition to 250l. in aid of the equipment of the laboratory and workshop. The Blackford school has been carried on for about one year in unsuitable temporary premises, but nevertheless attracted more than fifty pupils. The new buildings were opened at the end of September by Sir Henry Roscoe. The school has now between seventy and eighty pupils, a considerable proportion being boarders. The school will receive from the County Education Committee an annual grant of at least 120l.
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BOTHAMLEY, C. Rural Education. Nature 61, 55 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061055d0
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