Posted by Roger Wardale on July 24, 2015 at 13:59:58 user RogerW.
In Reply to: Going Away to School posted by Ross on July 24, 2015 at 12:03:44:
The vast majority of pupils in England at that time walked to their local school and left at fourteen years.
More and more state secondary schools (grammar or high) were being built for scholarship pupils with free places as well as fee payers, but all had to pass an entrance exam and pupils usually left at 16 or 18, and as these served a locality, some walked to school, while others caught the bus or train. In many ways these schools modelled their curriculum on the great public schools.
There were a number of fee-paying independent schools, many of which were day schools, while others catered for boarders, and for the few there were the public schools, Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Cheltenham Ladies, Roedean, Benenden etc.
There are hints that the Swallows went to boarding schools in the south, that Dick might have followed in AR's footsteps to Rugby, and that Dot went to a London independent day school.
Likewise there is a hint that the Amazons boarding school was in the north, but probably not St Anne's Windermere or Harrogate Ladies College!.
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