Schooling:
Before DA school was built, children walked to Risley, then to Stanton;
8 children went free at Scargill (West Hallam) or Risley
Existing school preceded by dame school at Moor cottages, end of Ranters’ chapel, where livery stables is now; 1 or 2d per week
School built 1869, 1st head Miss Mary Ann Sears (related to the Hollingworths [Ball]); max. 106 children, often 90.
New school 1876, expanded (1893) heating added while Harvey and Chris were there – took longer than expected, so longer summer holiday, then back to school at the Clubhouse! (Ball); fetched water for drinking from pump at the triangle; well in the playground for washing hands.
Maud’s aunt 1st teacher, opened with 12 children; 2 teachers in one room – 1 teaching, 1 silent
1893: one room only with fire in the middle and log forms down each side, 1 for infants, 1 for juniors (Ball, 1969)
Lily Fryer went to school in early days – still living at Dale in 1969 aged 83 (Ball)
1893 expanded to 2 rooms
1935 kitchen and porch built on, financed by whist drives etc. (Ball)
1938 electricity installed (4th March)
1952: 18 Sept., two plays performed by arch by boys from Longmoor School, Long Eaton (an abbot election and a Redman visitation). School attended (Ball)
1967 water flush toilets and basins installed – before most homes
(no water sanitation till 1967, and cess pit still in use, 1969)
1969 centenary celebrations – music licence for school, so performed operetta Mon 16 Jun 1969.
1978 Closed: thereafter served as the Village Hall until taken over by Stanton by Dale PCC for use as a private school.
22 Jun 1920 school log reports taking kids to see disbandment of colliery and fall of 70’ chimney.