1850 Guide page 12
The parish enjoys the advantage of an endowed free school, or
rather schools, for, in addition to the boys and girls schools
in the town, there is also one at Heyhouses for both sexes,
established about 1789. The principal endowment for these
schools arises out of the rental of land, of the value of about
£130. a year, purchased with the accumulated bequests of the
charitable during the last century, and vested in 17 trustees.
According to the parliamentary commissioners' report, a school
existed here previous to 1702; and in 1732 the school stock
amounted to £198. 10s., with which, and other money, purchases
were made in land for the benefit of the school. The original
school is said to have been built by Richard Salthouse, and was
used until 1793, when a new school-room was raised upon a site
belonging to Mr. Clifton. It was rebuilt in 1821, and stands
between the parish church and the town. The present number of
boys in attendance is 90, and of girls 85. Mr. Robert Symonds is
master, and Mrs. Betty Greenwood is mistress of the schools at
Lytham, and Thomas Kendal is master of that at Heyhouses. A
lodge of the Independent order of Odd Fellows, of the Manchester
Unity, is held at the Railway hotel. |
