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South End School
South End School was built in 1871 on a plot of land given by Mr F U Sartoris of Rushden Hall.

It was a Church of England School, and was later known
as a National School.

The building cost £1100 to erect, and could take 250 pupils.
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The school in 1963.
The building had changed little; the brook was now culverted, and the playground fenced.

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Left: Aerial view - South End school left and Townsend's extensive property right
1900 Map of the school, on the corner of High Street South and Wymington Road.
The properties next door were Lewis' blacksmiths yard, house and smithy.
The Sydney brook flowed along in front of both and then meandered into
Rushden Hall grounds. A bridge gave access into the school playground.
On the river at the Festival of Britain in 1951
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South End school left and Townsends


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