Itchen Stoke 007

Itchen Stoke 007

Three women standing at the gateway of the old school house, a thatched building built entirely out of flint (opposite the church), c.1910. The village school had been built by the first Lord Ashburton in 1830 and enlarged in 1858. The first school mistress taught reading but could not write herself, so this duty was carried out by her husband, who charged pupils one penny a week for writing lessons.. In 1972 a fully trained and certified teacher became school mistress.

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