
























ROUND OUR BURNLEY SCHOOLS WITH 
THE CAMERA. 
(IntusTRaTED By THE Lantern). 
By JOHN WATTS. 21st November, 1905. 

In this imaginative personally conducted tour, *‘ Round our 
Burnley Schools with the Camera,” Mr. Watts gave a most interest- 
ing view of all phases of elementary school-life in Burnley, with 
the portraits of a gallery of Burnley worthies who have devoted 
a large part of their lives to the teaching profession, or to the 
local administration of the Education Acts. Taking as a kind of 
text the remark of Mr. Choate, the late American Ambassador to 
this country, when he distributed the prizes at the Mechanics’ 
Institution, that ‘‘In America education was their greatest 
industry,” the lecture tended to illustrate and confirm this 
truth as applied to Burnley. 
After a brief general historical account of the beginnings of 
National Education and the work done by the religious com- 
munities, he passed in panoramic review, the local schools in 
chronological order : 
18%8—St. Peter’s School was built. and among the headmasters 
was Mr. W, Milner Grant, from 1841 to 1861. 
The Wesleyan School, Keighley Green, was a contempor- 
aneous building, now used as a Volunteer Drill Hall. 
Habergham School was one of the first to be built in 
Burnley with the aid of the Building Grant. 
1839—Erection of Mitre Street School. 
1840—The people of Trinity built a school for boys, to serve the 
districts of the Meadows, Thorneybank, and Sandygate. 
