Murder in the School (Primrose Primary School Book 1)

Tributes to Primrose Hill schoolboy who died in road smash

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Christie, a friend of Lockhart, the supposed contributor to Blackwood's Magazine , which grew out of some articles in the London , reflecting on the management of Blackwood. Scott was severely wounded, and he was conveyed from the battlefield on a shutter to the Chalk Farm Tavern, where he lingered for a little more than a fortnight.

Christie, together with Mr. Patmore, who acted as seconds, were tried at the Old Bailey, on the charge of murder, but Mr. Patmore did not surrender to take his trial. Lord Chief Justice Abbot summed up the evidence with much feeling, and in the end the jury returned a verdict of "Not Guilty. Here is one of his jeux d'esprit , entitled "An Answer to a Challenge," which arose out of a squabble between two lawyers at Andover in As the one is to fight and the other to dine, I accept his engagement, and yours must decline.

Now in giving this pref'rence I trust you'll admit I have acted with prudence, and done what was fit; Since encountering him, and my weapon a knife, There is some little chance of preserving my life, Whilst a bullet from you, sir, might take it away, And the maxim, you know, is to live while you may. We all know that a jest will sometimes succeed where a sermon fails; but jests and sermons appear to have been equally fruitless in their attacks on this silly practice, as it survived for at least three or four years into the reign of Victoria.

But the old tavern at Chalk Farm has other reminiscences besides those which associate it with the many duels fought in its neighbourhood. From the year to —at which time the fields attached to it were called "Mr. Bowden's Grounds"—there used to be held the annual matches of the Wrestling Club of Cumberland and Westmoreland.

These sports had previously been held in various places in the suburbs—on Kennington Common, at Chelsea, and at the Eyre Arms, St.

Since , however, these sports have been among the attractions of the New Agricultural Hall, at Islington. They have always been, and, strange to say, are still, celebrated on Good Friday. The chief and most noted wrestlers are "North Country" men, though the prizes are mostly open to all comers, and the Cornish wrestlers are almost equally celebrated. They are under the management of a committee with a president, a secretary, and other officers, and the money collected at their yearly gatherings has often, perhaps generally, been handed over to one or other of our metropolitan charities.

Although such sports have been held in London periodically for upwards of a century, it was not till the year that a society was actually founded for the purpose of encouraging those wrestling matches for which the natives of Cumberland and Westmoreland have been so famed from time out of mind, and the celebration of which in London has, no doubt, had the merit of keeping up old friendships and connections which would otherwise have been dropped.

This society has at various times received encouragement from such men as the late Earl of Lonsdale and Professor Wilson; and it will be remembered that Charles Dickens has described a wrestling match in Household Words , having drawn his picture from what he saw when present at a field-day at Windermere.

Those who object to such games should remember that wrestling formed one of the series of five contests which made up the "pentathlon" at the old Olympic games of Greece. A full account of these matches will be found in a small work called "Wrestliana. As lately as Charles Dickens alludes to "the bowers for reading and smoking scattered about the tea-gardens at Chalk Farm" as still in existence, comparing them with those in his then Swiss residence at Lausanne.

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But in another decade they were already things of the past. His death is thus recorded in the pages of the Gentleman's Magazine for that year: Died, of a convulsive fit, at his residence, near the Regent's Park, aged seventythree, the Right Hon. Londonderry, in the Peerage of Ireland, and a major-general in the army; better known by the title of Colonel Hanger, or the familiar appellation of 'George Hanger.

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He died lamented and regretted by none, or, at all events, by few of his contemporaries; and the extinction of his title, which was caused by his death, could scarcely be said to have been lamented, or to have created in the Irish peerage any gap or void which it was difficult to fill up. The old Chalk Farm Tavern, which had witnessed so many duels in its day, stood in what is now called Regent's Park Road, on the north side, about half-way between the foot of Primrose Hill and the North London Railway Station.

It was rather a picturesque old house, with a veranda running along outside, from which the visitors looked down into some pleasant gardens. Samuel Palmer, in his "History of St. Pancras," "has long been known as a place of public entertainment, similar in character to the 'Adam and Eve' and 'Bagnigge Wells.

Being on the incline of Primrose Hill, the terrace in front of the house was very often crowded to inconvenience, the prospect being charming and the air invigorating. Semi-theatrical entertainments were at times provided for the visitors, whilst at other times balls, promenades, masquerades, wrestlingmatches, and even prize-fights and other brutal sports were offered for their amusement. These latter sports, singularly enough, were principally the amusements for the Sunday. The fatal issue of one such encounter, between John Stone and Joseph Parker, resulting in a trial, and ultimately in a verdict of manslaughter against the survivor and the seconds on both sides, aided in a great measure to suppress this brutal exhibition.

Palmer, however, omits to tell us the date of this occurrence. About the year it was pulled down, to make way for a modern and more pretentious hotel, which now occupies its site. On the opposite side of the way, even to a more recent date, were some tea-gardens and pleasure-grounds, where there were occasional displays of fireworks on summer evenings; but these also have given way to the steady advance of bricks and mortar. Indeed, the growth of London in this direction has been steadily going on for many years, for as far back as a correspondent of Hone's "Year Book" writes: He complains, "What is a man to do?

If you go west, you come to Hounslow. If you go east, you come to Bow. If you go south, there's Brixton or Norwood. If you go north, you can't get rid of Barnet!

CHAPTER XXII.

Fairs in old times were held in this neighbourhood, much to the delight, no doubt, of the lads and lasses living at Hampstead, Highgate, and St. But of late these fairs have dwindled away to nothing. Sala, in "Gaslight and Daylight" in , "is a melancholy mockery of merriment;" and we believe it is now a matter of history. The Chalk Farm Railway Station, at which we have now arrived, has become a great centre of passenger and goods traffic; it is joined by the large goods station of Messrs.

Pickford, covering several acres to the south, and reaching half-way to the "York and Albany. On Haverstock Hill stood, till recently, a house said to have been occupied by Steele. The circular building which projects into the Chalk Farm Road near the Adelaide Hotel was built to accommodate the locomotive engines in the early days of the London and Birmingham Railway. It is about feet in diameter, and has in its centre a turn-table, by means of which the engines can be shifted to the up and down lines, and to the various sidings.

Externally, the building is not very attractive, but its interior is light, the arched roof being supported on graceful iron pillars. At the end of Regent's Park Road, close by Chalk Farm Railway Station, is an institution which has achieved a large amount of good in its own especial field of action.

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The Boys' Home, for such the institution in question is called, was originally established in in the Euston Road, for the prevention of crime, arresting the destitute child in danger of falling into a criminal life, and training him, by God's blessing, to honest industry; a work which, as experience has shown, can only be successfully done by such voluntary agency. It is, in fact, an industrial school for the training and maintenance, by their own labour, of destitute boys not convicted of crime.

Owing, however, to the Midland Railway Company requiring the site of the "home" in the Euston Road for their new terminus, in new premises were secured here, consisting of three unfinished houses and a yard, which were taken on a ninety-nine years' lease from the governors of Eton College, to whom the property belongs. The applications for admission soon became so numerous—about in a year—that it was determined to increase the numbers. The school and the workshops, which were subsequently built, will enable boys to work, instead of fifty as at first provided for.

The boys are lodged in separate houses, holding about twenty-five boys in each, in ordinary bed-rooms; each boy is provided with his own bed, each room under the charge of a monitor, and each house under the direct control of the master or matron living in it, who endeavour to become the true parents of these poor lads, to guide them no less by affection than by firm discipline, to establish a happy "family" feeling, and to attract their once ragged and disorderly pupils by the force of kindly teaching and good example.

The late Lady Truro, daughter of the Duke of Sussex, in left a bequest to the institution, by which the committee of management have been enabled to extend the "home," by adding to it another house; and a chapel was likewise built for their accommodation, by a generous donor, in This chapel has since germinated, through the generosity of the provost and fellows of Eton College, into a handsome new church—St. Mary's, at the north-eastern corner of Primrose Hill. The institution itself is called not a school but a "home," and in every sense of the word it is a home.

It must be a place in which the great bond of love which binds all the world together comes out and is recognised. This is the very first condition.

The second condition which I understand as essential to a home is that you shall have there order and discipline. The third law of the world is that it is a world of work; 'he that will not work, neither shall he eat. There is one other condition, as I understand the matter, without which there can be no true and righteous home, and that condition is economy. In God's natural world there is no waste whatever, and it is His world in which we are. We are under His laws, and ought to study His methods of administering them. A large quantity of firewood is cut on the premises, and delivered to customers, and several boys are employed by private families in the neighbourhood in cleaning knives and shoes.

The amount of the industrial work done in the Home is highly satisfactory. The products of the labour of the boys and their teachers—clothes, shoes and boots, brushes of every kind, carpentry and firewood—are sold, and contribute to the general funds of the institution; yet a large expenditure, chiefly caused by the extreme youth of many of the boys, is annually necessary to enable the managers to continue and extend their useful exertions.

Children of all ages are admitted, ranging from six or seven up to fourteen or fifteen; and it may be mentioned that there is a branch at East Barnet for training still younger children. An ants' nest could not display more activity and life than may be witnessed here among the youths who have been rescued from the streets. At first, the restraint, gentle as it is, is frequently irksome to the little urchin, and he plots to run away, and now and then he succeeds.

However, he soon returns of his accord, or is brought back, and after a very short interval, becomes steady and reconciled to the happiness of the Home. Indeed, he soon becomes proud of it—proud of being associated with it, proud of his work, proud of his learning, proud of the self-respect which the very character of the Home inspires. All this, there can be no doubt, is brought about by the kindness which he experiences from all around him; and so, instead of being abased by mischievous companions, or the angry words of elders, he feels himself raised at once in the social scale.

There is a school, too, to which he goes, and an excellent schoolmaster to guide his thoughts in the right direction. Scriptural or moral mottoes are placed in every room, so that his eye hourly feeds his heart with sound counsel. To avoid monotony and tediousness, his tasks are frequently diversified, and he is taught either a musical instrument or singing.

Indeed, the band of this juvenile institution acquits itself very creditably. In the school-room is a harmonium, usually presided over by the teacher, whose performances naturally excite the delight of these civilised British Bedouins. As we have intimated above, various trades are taught, and, when fit, the boys are put out into real life as may suit each. With all these young men a constant intercourse is kept up after they have left the Home by letters and visits, and a register of all cases is kept at the Home by which the history of every one from his admittance can be traced.

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To show the class of boys rescued, the particulars of one or two cases will suffice: This poor boy was described in the paper sent to the Home from the office of the Reformatory and Refuge Union, as "awfully filthy and neglected," and was stated to have been in the casual-ward of several workhouses for single nights. He was in a sad condition when he entered the Home—shoeless, dirty and tattered, footsore and hungry. She liked looking after the kids outside and taking them to after care.

She loved to dance. Police spokesperson Noloyiso Rwexana said two suspects aged 29 and 32 were arrested for the murder and were due to appear in court on Tuesday.

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Rwexana said no arrests had been made and they have opened a case of murder for investigation. Numsa in bid to stop Gupta, Zuma asset sale. Durban actress dies in Botanic Gardens car crash. This may be because the school is new or because it is very small so data has been suppressed to avoid identifying individual pupils. Schools do not lose points for missing data, so will still fare better in the ranking than schools that underperform on that indicator, but they cannot score as highly as schools that perform well on the indicator.

If table is blank, it means there are no recent inspections for this school. Prior to September , where a school received a rating of 3 this indicated a Satisfactory grade. From after that date, it now indicates Requires Improvement. As of September , a score of 3 changed from indicating Satisfactory to Requires Improvement. How have pupils at Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre done in assessments at the end of Key Stage 2 and how does it compare to local authority and national averages? While pupils are generally aiming to be working at the expected level in reading, writing and maths, what proportion of children at Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre had a high score in reading and maths and were working at greater depth in writing, and how does this compare to performance at local and national level?

How do children at Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre with different levels of attainment at Key Stage 1 and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds perform in terms of reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths? What is the pupil: Pupils are assessed on how much progress they make between assessments in Key Stage 1 infants and Key Stage 2 juniors , with the progress of all pupils contributing to an overall 'value added' measure for the school.

At Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre, pupils had an average progress score in maths in that was How do children with different levels of attainment at infant level and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds perform in terms of the progress made in maths and how does this compare to local averages?

At Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre, pupils had an average progress score in reading in that was How do children with different levels of attainment at infant level and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds perform in terms of making progress in reading and how does this compare to local averages? At Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre, pupils had an average progress score in writing in that was How do children with different levels of attainment at infant level and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds perform in terms of making progress in writing and how does this compare to local averages?

Figures below show what proportion of half-day sessions were missed by pupils and how this compares to local and national averages. Figures below show what proportion of half day sessions were missed by pupils and counted as an unauthorised absence and how this compares to local and national averages. While finances are not included in our calculation of how good schools are, many schools publish information about how much they are spending on pupils' education. What is the total school spend per pupil at Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre compared to the local average?

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