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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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