Norfolk Annals, Vol. 2: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth CenturyMackie, Charles
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Norfolk Annals, Vol. 2: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century
Mackie, Charles
Norfolk (England) -- History
13.*—“The Marine Parade (Yarmouth) may now be looked upon as completed,
and certainly in almost every particular it has exceeded the expectations
formed of it. It was planned and carried out under the immediate
superintendence of the Town Surveyor, Mr. A. W. Morant, and the cost will
not exceed the sum estimated, £1,700.”
16.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, the Grammar School
Committee reported that the hearing took place, before the Master of the
Rolls, on June 10th, of the suit, the Attorney-General _v._ Hudson, when
the principal differences which had existed in reference to the new
scheme for the administration of the School and Hospital had been
amicably adjusted. The sum of £1,000 per annum, exclusive of the cost of
buildings, was to be taken from the Great Hospital funds and
appropriated, under the management of separate trustees, to the purposes
of education. Two schools were to be established—a Grammar School and a
Commercial School. The course of instruction in the Grammar School would
embrace English, Latin, French, and German, &c., and in the Commercial
School, English, French, and the rudiments of Latin, &c. Prizes and
scholarships were to be given to both schools, and the boy who obtained
an upper class scholarship in the Commercial School would be entitled to
education in the Grammar School without cost. The payments for boys
educated in the Grammar School were to range from 6 gs. to 8 gs. per
year, and in the Commercial School 30s. per year. The masters were to be
paid a fixed salary, besides which their stipends would be augmented in
the Grammar School by four-sixths of the money received from the pupils,
and in the Commercial School by three-sixths. (_See_ March 23rd, 1858.)
17.—A revival of the Dereham Race Meeting attracted thousands of
spectators to the Common. The subscriptions amounted to £150, and horses
were run by Lord Suffield and other sportsmen of the county.
18.—Workmen engaged in deepening a dry dock belonging to Mr. Ambrose
Palmer, at Yarmouth, turned up in one spadeful from 700 to 1,000 silver
pennies of Edward I. and of Alexander III., the contemporary King of
Scotland. The coins were discovered 17 feet beneath the level of the
quay.
23.—Mr. A. A. H. Beckwith, Governor of the Norwich Court of Guardians,
performed the ceremony of turning the first sod upon the line marked out
for the main front of the new Norwich Workhouse.
24.—Mr. Spurgeon, “the celebrated revivalist,” preached two sermons at
the Corn Exchange, Lynn, in aid of a fund for repairing the local Baptist
chapel. Two thousand six hundred tickets were issued, and the
collections amounted to £110 15s.
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