1860 to 1968
In 1860, Samuel White's School opened in Hanham High Street where the library and youth club stand now. The school was then called 'Hanham Wesleyan Day School' because it was next door to the Wesleyan Church. A man called Samuel White gave the money for the school to be built. To view a map of Hanham in 1888 to 1890, click on Victorian Hanham Map at the bottom of this page. Can you see where the Hanham Wesleyan School used to be? |  |
| This is a picture of a class of children busy at work in school. The classroom looks very different. In what ways does it look different from your classroom today? |
In 1900 the school closed for quite a while and when it opened again it took the new name Samuel White's School. Until 1929 the school took children up to 14 years old. |  |
| In 1936 the children at Samuel White's School who were 7 and over were moved to Hanham Abbots Junior School. Most of the children from our school still move on to this junior school. |
This is a programme for a concert at Samuel White's School in 1963. Can you see how much the programme cost then? It is not in £ and p as we know it but in what were called shillings and pence. The programmes cost about 7p for adults and 4p for children in today's money. |  |
To the right is a picture taken of this concert. What instruments are the children playing? In what ways do the children look different to children in school now? |
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| This picture is of the Christmas nativity in 1967. We still perform the same story, but in different ways, every Christmas. This was the last Nativity in the old Samuel White's School. |
