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St Matthew’s Boys School, York Street

History of St Matthew's Boys School

A detailed black and white Ordnance Survey map segment showing the layout of York Street, Abbey Walk, and a school building.

Cambridge OS 1901

1882 -1903 St Matthew’s Higher Grade Boys School, which had originally opened in Sturton Street in 1878.

1904 – 1931 it was the St Matthew’s Street Boys School before it amalgamated with Norfolk Street Girls’ to become a junior mixed and infants school in 1933.


1913

G R James, headmaster


Down Your Street, 1984, p.91 quotes section of the school log book for 1920 – 1931. There are frequent reference to “malt and oilk” boys attending clinics, and diptheria was prevalent.

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