108 SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF BLACKPOOL AND DISTRICT 



Value in 1927 



(Before Queen Mary's Secondary School for Girls was built) : — 

 Sites and buildings as in 1907, with site for proposed girls' school : 



£56,899 Stock with an income of £2,270 3s. 2d. 



Rents and ground rents .... .... .... £2,318 0s. 9d. 



A total income of £4,588 3s. lid. 



Together with cash on deposit in bank .... £13,103 12s. 7d. 



What the future value of the Lytham School Charities will be, owing to the 

 increased value of this land in Blackpool, it is not possible to say. There 

 appear to be a number of leases for 99 years (or similar periods), which were 

 granted at comparatively low rentals in the 50s and 60s of the last century, 

 which will terminate during the next 20 or 30 years. The lands will revert then 

 to the Trust, with all buildings erected thereon : and the property can then 

 be leased again at a higher rental. As an illustration of the higher rentals now 

 obtainable, an area of 1 ,026 square yards was leased in 1 922 for 36 years at a 

 rental of £1,000 per annum up to 2nd February, 1930, and £1,600 per annum 

 from that date, whereas a plot of 1,143 square yards was leased in 1851 for 

 79 years for £11 18s. per annum. 



Baines' Endowed Schools. 



Here we have another group of undenominational schools founded shortly 

 after the date when it was decided that the Conformity restrictive legislation 

 did not apply to elementary schools. 



James Baines, of Poulton, by his will (6th January, 1717) left property for the 

 future maintenance of the three schools which he had erected at Marton, at 

 Hardhom-cum-Newton, and at Thornton. 



The Baines' Endowed School at Marton, and the Baines' Endowed School 

 at Thornton, are still elementary schools : the trustees of the Marton school 

 have recently erected new buildings for their school. Funds for this were 

 obtained from land, which had been let for £60 per year, being sold for over 

 £6,000, and the old school buildings at the comer of Preston New Road being 

 sold to the Corporation of Blackpool for street improvement purposes. 



As regards the school in Hardhorn-cum-Newton township, a little before 

 1877 additional school accommodation was required at Staining, and the 

 Education Department suggested that this should be provided from the Baines 

 Endowment, and proposed to make a scheme for dealing with the endowment 

 in this way. The trustees objected, and drew attention to the fact that as the 

 income was over £100 a year, the Education Department had no powers under 

 Section 75 of the Education Act, 1870, to deal with this endowment. The 

 Education Department, after consulting the Charity Commissioners, acknow- 

 ledged this, and took no further steps with their proposed scheme. 



The inhabitants of Poulton and district wanted the funds to be used for a 

 ' Grammar School,' instead of for an elementary school. After an enquiry, 

 the Charity Commissioners approved a scheme in 1880 for this, and the school 

 became Poulton Grammar School. On the grounds that the school had 

 proved its value, when new buildings were required (the endowment being 



