Important Scheme: Cookery, Laundry, and Manual Instruction: The Birmingham Education Committee, at a meeting yesterday under the chairmanship of the Lord Mayor (Sir George Kenrick), adopted an important scheme for providing additional accommodation for cookery and laundry instruction for girls and manual training for boys. … … (long detailed description of the scheme) … … The adoption of the recommendations having been seconded, Mrs. Pinsent heartily supported the proposals, but said she was glad to hear Mr. Titterton say that it was “only the beginning” of a scheme for providing a better curriculum for dull and backward children …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949