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from the elementary schools to the secondary schools 

 of the city, by which many poor boys have climbed 

 to the universities and thence to important positions 

 in the world. The Council of Education still exists. 

 It administers a scholarship trust fund of over 20,000, 

 as well as the Waterworth Scholarship fund, the in- 

 come of which is over 300 per annum. Its scholar- 

 ships are now merged in the scholarship system 

 instituted by the City Education Committee. 



The elementary schools now controlled by the City 

 Education Committee are as follows ; m 



There are also five day industrial schools, to which 

 children from drunken homes are committed on a 

 magistrate's order, and receive food as well as instruc- 

 tion ; ten ordinary certified industrial schools, a 

 reformatory ship, the Akbar, five schools for physically 

 and mentally defective children, and one truants' 

 industrial school. The total cost of the elementary 

 tystem in 19067 was 625,623. 



During the last few years the Education Committee 

 has been engaged in providing facilities for higher 

 education, in which, thanks to the failure to develop 

 the ancient grammar school, 914 Liverpool was behind 

 most other English cities. Of the older secondary 

 schools some account has been already given. 914 Of 

 these schools three the Liverpool Institute, Black- 

 burne House, and the Liverpool Collegiate School 

 (formerly Liverpool College Middle and Commercial 

 Schools) have passed under the direct control of the 

 Education Committee. The Pupil Teachers' College 

 in Clarence Street has been turned into the Oulton 

 Secondary School, with 873 pupils ; one of the most 

 highly developed of the elementary schools has been 

 turned into a secondary school (Holt Secondary 

 School), and a large secondary school for girls has 

 been built. Eight city scholarships, tenable at the 

 University of Liverpool, are thrown open to the 

 competition of pupils of these and other secondary 

 schools in the city. Outside of the system controlled 

 by the Education Committee, there are, in addition to 

 the schools enumerated in V.C.H. Lanes, ii, 595, four 

 denominational pupil teacher centres, two of which, 



St. Edmund's College (Church of England) and the 

 Catholic Institute, have been transformed into se- 

 condary schools. Note should also be made of the 

 school-ship Contcay, moored in the Mersey, which 

 trains boys to be officers in the mercantile marine, and 

 for Dartmouth. 



The Technical Instruction Committee conducts 

 classes in the Central Technical School, Byrom Street ; 

 it has three branch schools in other parts of the city, 

 and conducts regular evening classes also in ten other 

 institutions. There are also a nautical college, a 

 school for cookery, and a school of domestic economy. 

 The City School of Art is largely attended, and has 

 now incorporated the School of Applied Arts, formerly 

 associated with the University School of Architecture. 



The city also contains two training colleges for 

 teachers, the Liverpool Training College, Mount 

 Pleasant, founded in 1856, and conducted by the 

 sisters of the Notre Dame, and the Edge Hill Train- 

 ing College (undenominational) founded in 1884. 

 Both are for women, and both are affiliated to the 

 university. For the training of Roman Catholic 

 priests there is St. Edward's College, in Everton. 



The earliest Liverpool charities, 

 CHARITIES apart from the grammar school, 926 were 

 the almshouses. 917 In 1684 twelve 

 almshouses were built by David Poole near the bottom 

 of Dale Street; in 1692 Dr. Silvester Richmond 

 founded a small group of almshouses for sailors' 

 widows in Shaw's Brow ; in 1706 Richard Warbrick 

 established another small group, also for sailors' 

 widows, in Hanover Street. Successive small gifts 

 during the 1 8th century, amounting in all to over 

 2,500, increased the endowment. In 1786 the 

 almshouses were consolidated and removed to their 

 present site in Arrad Street (Hope Street). They are 

 administered in part by the corporation, in part by 

 the rector, in part by trustees. 



In i 708 the Bluecoat Hospital was founded by the 

 Rev. R. Styth, one of the rectors, and by Bryan 

 Blundell, master mariner, as a day school for fifty 

 poor boys, on a site granted by the corporation in 

 School Lane. 91 * Blundell, by liberal gifts and assidu- 

 ous collection, raised sufficient funds for the erection 

 of a permanent building where they could be housed. 

 The graceful and dignified building, still standing, 

 was begun in 1714 and completed in 1718. The 

 number of inmates has been successively increased ; 

 there are now 250 boys and 100 girls. In 1905 

 the school was removed to a spacious and handsome 

 new building on open ground in Wavertree. The 

 Bluecoat Hospital ranks as the premier charity of the 

 city, and has always received the warm support of 

 Liverpool merchants. 



One hundred and twenty-eight distinct charitable 

 institutions now in existence are enumerated by the 

 Charity Organization Society. 929 They cannot all be 

 enumerated, and it will be convenient to group them. 



i. Medical Charities. The Royal Infirmary, which 

 is the second oldest medical charity in the north of 

 England, was instituted in 1745. Its first building 





* M Rep. for 1907. 

 2: Omitting Pupil Teachers. 

 2 < y.C.H. Lanes, ii, 593. 

 * Ibid. 595. 



926 For the grammar school, see 

 Lanes, ii, 593. 



927 See Digest of Lnncs. Charities (House 

 of Commons Papers, 1869). The annual 

 income at that date was 2,037. This 

 was mainly derived from the interest on 

 the Molyneux foundation, which was 

 wisely invested in lands in the township 

 of Liverpool (the Rector's Fields, formerly 



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part of the Moss Lake). When leases fall 

 in the charity will be very rich. 



988 Trans. Hist. Soc., papers in vols. 

 xi, xiii, xvi, xxxi. 



929 On charities, Li-u. Charities (an- 

 nual) ; Burdett, Hosp. and Charities ; re- 

 ports of the individual charities. 



