Cambridge District Scout Archive
- De Freville Preparatory School 1918
- Chesteron Preparatory School 1919 – 1925
De Freville Preparatory School 1918
From https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol9/pp36-38 we have the following history.
‘Among private schools in the 20th century was Chesterton Preparatory school, opened in 1910 at the south end of De Freville Avenue as a junior branch for the Perse school with which it was linked until c. 1920. Its first head, Katherine A. Wilson, was a pioneer of teaching through play. With 50 pupils in 1914, it remained open until 1972 in its original corrugated iron classrooms.’
It appears likely that the original ‘De Freville Preparatory School’ is an error or temporary name change and the De Freville and Chesterton Preparatory School are the same. The school is listed as ‘Dr. Rouses’s Chesterton Prep School in the 1919 – 1920 Spalding’s Directory of Cambridge. Dr. Rouse, headmaster of the Perse, was the director.
Chesterton Preparatory School 1919 – 1925
Preceded as D Pack by De Freville Preparatory School it might be the same physical institution under an earlier name.
A controlled pack based at the school under Headmistress Miss Wilson the registration of 1925 gives
CM Mary Sophia Pim Training School for Women, Cambridge
And Wollaston Road
The pack had one officer and eight Cubs and an IHQ number of possibly 4615 but it is unclear.
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