| Description | Log Book for the Girls School
Partial index at front
List of school staff in 1905 on p. 304
Details of syllabus for various subjects on pp. 304-9
Note the following entries:
28 February 1890 - "The telephone has been put up in the school"
22 January 1894 - "The Brook Green RC Schools (St. Helen's) were transferred today to the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Hammersmith Road, and handed over to the religious for the future - Alfred White, Holy Trinity Church, Hammersmith"
18 February 1903 - "The Children assembled in the playground to see His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, who had come to visit the convent"
16 March 1903 - "Madame Rumbold, Superior and Manager, came to say goodbye to the children, as she is leaving the Convent to make a new foundation out in Malta"
22 May 1903 - "Last Wednesday the Children were given a half-holiday, as the King was to pass through Hammersmith on his way to open Kew Bridge. A stand has been erected in the playground and more than 300 spectators were enabled to have a view of the King. The children stood on the flat roof over the parlours in the Convent"
18 May 1911 - [describing the passing of the King, Queen, Emperor (Kaiser) and Empress of Germany through Hammersmith] "The Emperor smiled and bowed most graciously, and the Empress threw the children kisses" |