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Paradise Street ?School? (MoC)Higher Grade School, Paradise Street
History of Jesus Lane Sunday School, Paradise Street
1867
Opening of Jesus Lane Sunday School on Paradise Street, Cambridge
J A Charles in ‘One man’s Cambridge’ p27 discusses the early history of the school. He suggests that it may have been the first High Grade (i.e. non-grammar secondary school) in England.
1894
John Henry Victor Charles enrolled in the school when almost 7. He had previously been educated by a Miss Sanders.
1896
The school bought an incandescent gas lantern with over 300 slides to improve teaching.
Higher Grade School, 1901
Higher Grade School, 1902 (MoC)
1913
Higher Grade Boys’ Class Room
G W Martin, headmaster
Central School, Higher Grade School, Paradise Street (MoCX/2006)
Higher Grade School Paradise ‘A’ (MoC)
1930s – 1950s
This was the home of the 9th Cambridge Queens’ College Scouts
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