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School, Isleham Fen

History of Isleham Fen School

School, Isleham Fen OS 1925

In the 1930s Mrs Walker, headmistress lived here, together with her carpenter husband. Two of the teachers also lived here but there was a third elsewhere. The school also served as a church on Sundays.

Source: The History of Isleham Fen in the 1930s by Polly Hill, Clare Hall, 1990

1921 School House

Walter Benjamin Quinn, 38, market grower, b Isleham

Ellen Mary, 33, b Suffolk

Thomas Quinn, brother, 45, market gardener,  b Isleham

Henrietta Paterson Lawrie, 27, school mistress, b Michigan USA

 

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