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1851—Red Lion Street Wesleyan School. 
1855—Saint Mary’s School (Roman Catholic). 
1864—Fulledge Wesleyan School. 
With the advent of 1870 a new period began. Voluntary 
effort could not keep up with the public demands, and 
Burnley applied the i:ducation Act at once; the first School 
Board was elected in 1871. Three of its original members 
are still living—Dean Maclure of Manchester, Mr. John 
Howarth, J.P., and Mr. Robert Hurtley, J.P. But the 
Board did not exercise its power to build and maintain 
schools out of the rates for a subsequent period of twenty 
yeare. 
1891—Abel Street Board School was built. 
1892—Burnley Wood Board School was buiit. 
1896—Stoneyholme Board School was built. 
1898— Rosegrove Board School was built. 
1900—Coal Clough Board School was built. 
1903—Heasandford Board School was built. 
1904—Hargher Clough Board School was built. 
Plans had recently been passed for a new school in ‘Todmorden 
Road, to accommodate 840 children from the Fulledge Wesleyan 
School. ‘hese were some of the ‘factories’? in which the 
Educational industry of the town was carried on—the colleges of 
the cottagers—and were splendid evidences of the foresight and 
sagacity of the people of Burnley. ‘The total value of the school 
property of Burnley ratepayers was £110,000. There were nearly 
20,000 children in the schools. 
Numerous views of children at work and play in and around 
the ‘‘ factories” were given, and no phase of school-life passed 
unillustrated. The subjects taught to the infants—three to five 
years of age—and to those in the science classes were enumer- 
ated. They included nature studies in Towneley Park, house- 
crafts, handicrafts, cooking, sewing, drilling, swimming, Kc. 
Truants are sent to various industrial schools and to the training 
ship Clio, where they are made into a smart lot of useful lads. 
The defective children required special treatment, and in 1893, 
the Burnley School Board established a deaf and dumb school, 
where the system ef teaching was the pure oral or speech system. 
In 1902, the School Board built two special schools for the larger 
class of school defectives—those incapable of receiving any 
benefit from the instruction in the Elementary Schools. 
The provision of teachers for the schools was by no means the 
least part of the work of the Local Authority : they have 685 teachers 
