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| Captain Shaw's Primary School, Bootle | ||
| Captain Shaw's Primary School | ||
| Bootle School | ||
| Street:- | Main Street | |
| locality:- | Bootle | |
| civil parish:- | Bootle (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | school | |
| locality type:- | village hall | |
| coordinates:- | SD10768822 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD1088 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD18 | |
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 BVS32.jpg (taken 24.11.2011)  BVS34.jpg School sign. (taken 24.11.2011) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 85 16) |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Endowed School" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Captain Shaw's Primary School |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CAPTAIN SHAW'S PRIMARY SCHOOL / / MAIN STREET / BOOTLE / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76311 / SD1077188218" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Primary School. Plaque dated 1830, later additions. Stuccoed stone with slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays, the end bays break forward. Moulded base, top cornice and coped parapet; quoins and coped gables. 2-light double-chamfered mullioned windows with label moulds. Right return of 2 bays, 2 windows of 2 lights to 1st floor, one blind; attic light. 2 entrances have 4-centred heads with incised spandrels and studded doors. Plaque inscribed with biblical quotations (Ecclesiastes 12.1; Proverbs 22.5 and 50.7) and date. Rear has later wing under flat roof and lean-to outshut; attached gabled open-fronted shed has projecting wing, possibly toilets, with 2-light blind window and opening for bell to east gable end." |
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 BVS33.jpg Plaque:- "Remember now thy Creator in the / days of thy youth. ECCLES. XII. I. / Train up a Child in the way he / should go: and when he is old he will not / depart from it. PROV. XXII. VI. / The fear of the Lord is the beginning / of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom / and instruction. PROV. I. VII. / A.D. 1830." (taken 24.11.2011) |
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| hearsay:- |
Isaac Shaw was a lieutenant on HMS Neptune at the battle of Trafalgar; Neptune towed
the badly damaged Victory to safety after the battle. Isaac Shaw became captain of
a frigate, HMS Volontaire. |
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