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BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL, NEW CROSS, MANCHESTER


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Reference M103
Covering dates 1788-1975
Held by Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Extent 145 series and sub-series
Source of acquisition The following records were deposited in May 1970 and April 1979 by Mr. R.D. Fletcher of Moston, formerly Secretary to the Trustees of Bennett St. Sunday School.
Additional papers (M103/4/2/3,4 and M102/4/16-19 were deposited in September 1982.
M103/4/20-23 were deposited in April 1985
Creators Bennett Street Sunday School, 1801-1966, Manchester, Lancashire
Related information Other references to the Sunday School are to be found in Archdeacon John Rushton's Visitation Papers (MS f 942 72 R121 vol.38), while the records of St. Paul's Literary and Educational Society, founded in 1843 as Bennett St. Sunday School Mutual Improvement Class, 1843-1962, were deposited in 1966 and are calendared separately at M38/. Other records of St. Paul's church are calendared at M330/1.


Administrative history:
Bennett St. Sunday School was founded in 1801 by David Stott. It first occupied premises in Gun St. and Primrose St. and in 1808 moved to George Leigh St. Ancoats. In 1818 a new building was erected in Bennett St. on land leased from the trustees of Hulme's Charity and on 13 Dec. the children marched from George Leigh St. to their new school. At first the Sunday School was connected with St. Clement's and St. Luke's, and from 1823 with St. Clement's only. Then in 1824 the trustees found themselves in doctrinal disagreement with the Rev. William Nunn of St. Clement's and so they separated the School from St. Clement's and attached it to St. Paul's.
The School was the most important Sunday School in Manchester and it remained in existence until 1966. The building was demolished in 1970 and the trust wound up in 1975 its funds being transferred to the Bennett St. Educational Foundation.


Contents:
M103/1/1-4 MINUTES
1. Trustees'
2. Visitors' and Teachers'
3. Committee of Management
4. School Committee
M103/2/1-3 TRUST DEEDS
1. Bennett St. Property
2. Gifts of £100 and £20
3. Turner St. Sunday School
M103/3/1-2 RULES
1. Rules
2. Amendments
M103/4/1-23 FINANCE
1. Bond to Repay Debt
2. Committee of Management Fund Accounts
3. Committee of Management Fund Bank Pass Books
4. Centenary Celebrations and School Extension Fund Cash Account
5. Centenary Fund Statement of Account
6. Anniversary and Other Collections
7-9 Anniversary Collections
7. Accounts
8-9 Subscriptions
10. Miscellaneous Collections
11. Bequest
12-15 Statement of Accounts
16. Trustees' Invoice Book
17. Trustees' Accounts
18. Accounts for William Foster's Convalescent Fund
19. Investment Ledger
20. Building Fund Accounts
21. Subscriptions for New School
22. Payments and Subscriptions
23. Treasurers' Accounts
M103/5/1-2 CORRESPONDENCE
1. Ordering Crockery
2. Miscellaneous Correspondence
M103/6/1-3 ANNUAL REPORTS (see also M103/10/24-26, M103/11/22)
1. St. Clement's and St. Luke's Sunday School Building Fund Society
2. Sunday and Day Schools Belonging to St. Paul's Church (see also M103/1/4/1-3)
3. Societies in Connection with St. Paul's Sunday School
M103/7/1-6 MANAGERS AND TEACHERS
1. List of Managers
2. Quiver Medallists
3. Managers and Teachers No.3 Room
4. Lists of Teachers
5. Letters of Resignation from Teachers
6. Letters of Sympathy to Teachers
M103/8/1-14 SCHOLARS
1. Rolls of Scholars
2-3 Admission Registers
4-6 Attendance Registers
7. Numbers Attending Each Sunday
8. Girls' Attendance Figures No.3 Room
9. Quarterly Statistics
10-11 Reward Books
12. Books Given as Prizes
13. Books Purchased for Prizes
14. Grantham Scholarships
M103/9/1-2 THE BUILDING
1. Plans
2. Repairs
M103/10-17 SOCIETIES ATTACHED TO BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL (see also M103/6/3 and M103/20-21)
M103/10/1-28 BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL SICK AND FUNERAL SOCIETY
1-2 Minutes
1. Committee and Trustees'
2. Annual and Committee Meetings
3. Trust Fund of £1,600
4. Appointment of Trustees
5. Rules
6-7 Amendments to Rules
8. Scheme under National Insurance Act, 1911
9. Dissolution
10-18 Finance
10-12 Subscriptions and Sick Payments
13. Distributions of Bonuses
14. Bank Pass Book
15. Valuations
16. Annual Returns for Registered Friendly Society
17. Liability for Income Tax
18. Statements of Account
19-23 Members
19. Proposition Forms
20-21 Membership Registers
22. Address Books
23. Nominations for Payment of Funeral Allowance
24-26 Annual Reports
27. Circulars
28. Acts of Parliament
M103/11/1-22 ST. PAUL'S BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL ADULT SICK AND FUNERAL SOCIETY
1. General and Committee Meetings Minutes
2. Rules
3. Amendments to Rules
4. Application for Change of Name
5. Scheme under National Insurance Act, 1911
6. Affiliation with Oddfellows
7-17 Finance
7. Accounts and Sick Payments
8. Cash Book
9-12 Subscriptions and Sick Payments
13. Distributions of Bonuses
14. Postage Book
15. Valuations
16. Liability for Income Tax
17. Statements of Account
18-20 Correspondence
18. Resignations of Treasurers
19. The Society's Doctor
20. Secretary's Out-Letter Books
21. Circulars
22. Annual Reports
M103/12/1-2 ST. PAUL'S BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL BENEVOLENT COMMITTEE
1. Minutes
2. Statement of Account
M103/13/1-4 BENNETT ST. INSTITUTION
1. Minutes
2. Rules
3. List of Directors
4. Correspondence
M103/14/1-2 BAND OF HOPE
1. Petitions
2. Circular
M103/15/1-2 BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL TONIC SOL-FA SINGING CLASS
1. Provisional Committee
2. Programmes
M103/16/1-2 BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL BANK (see also M103/6/3)
1. Admission Book
2. Cash Book
M103/17 BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL FREE LIBRARY
Member's Card
M103/18/1-6 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
1. List of Communicants
2. Visitors' Book
3. Photographs of the Committee of Management
4. Manuscript Music Scores
5. Notes for History
6. Diary of Benjamin Braidley
M103/19/1-12 PRINTED PAPERS
1-6 Programmes
1. Whit Week Arrangements
2. Founders' Day Celebrations
3. Anniversary Services
4. Christmas Parties
5. New Year Parties
6. Pantomimes and Plays
7. Miscellaneous Printed Papers
8. Newspaper Cuttings
9. Bennett St. Memorials
10. Reports of the Present State of Sunday Schools in Manchester
11. St. Paul's Magazines
12. Service Books
M103/20-21 SOCIETIES addnl.
M103/20 BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL TRACT ASSOCIATION
(see also M103/6/3)
M103/21 GIRL GUIDES (see also M103/4/14)


Expand   MINUTES  M103/1/1-4  [n.d.]
Expand   TRUST DEEDS  M103/2/1-3  [n.d.]
Expand   RULES  M103/3  [n.d.]
Expand   FINANCE  M103/4/1-12  [n.d.]
Expand   CORRESPONDENCE  M103/5/1-2  [n.d.]
Expand   ANNUAL REPORTS  M103/6/1-3  [n.d.]
Expand   MANAGERS AND TEACHERS  M103/7/1-6  [n.d.]
Expand   SCHOLARS  M103/8/1-14  [n.d.]
Expand   THE BUILDING  M103/9/1-2  [n.d.]
Expand   BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL, SICK AND FUNERAL SOCIETY  M103/10/1-28  [n.d.]
Expand   ST. PAUL'S BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL ADULT SICK AND FUNERAL SOCIETY  M103/11/1-22  [n.d.]
Expand   ST. PAUL'S, BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL BENEVOLENT COMMITTEE  M103/12/1-2  [n.d.]
Expand   BENNETT ST. INSTITUTION  M103/13/1-4  [n.d.]
Expand   BAND OF HOPE  M103/14/1-2  [n.d.]
Expand   BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL TONIC SOL-FA SINGING CLASS  M103/15/1-2  [n.d.]
Expand   BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL BANK  M103/16  [n.d.]
Expand   ST. PAUL'S BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL FREE LIBRARY  [no ref. or date]
Expand   BENNETT ST. SUNDAY SCHOOL TRACT ASSOCIATION  [no ref. or date]
Expand   GIRL GUIDES  [no ref. or date]


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