Seafield House School, Lytham
In 1850 Maria Larisa Tait (1821-70) opened a school in Dicconson Terrace,
Lytham but in later documentation the foundation date is given as 1847. The reason for
this is not clear. Maria Tait may have removed a school from another town, or taken over an
existing school in the terrace.
Lytham Beach
c1830 - Dicconson Terrace is in the centre, with a pediment.
The original Clifton Arms Hotel, then in Clifton Street, is in the distance; it was
demolished when Park Street was formed.
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People at Miss Tait's School on the night of the 1851 Census (31 March) and
their ages:
Maria Larisa Tait 29 (teacher)
Eliza Townsend 26 (teacher)
Sarah Kelsall 22 (teacher)
Edward Baisley 9 (scholar)
Frank Beardsall 4 (scholar)
Charles Day 7 (scholar)
Honery Hall 12 (scholar)
Joseph Hall 10 (scholar)
Thomas Kirkham 11 (scholar)
Afred Tate 10 (scholar)
Ralf Watkins 8 (scholar)
William Wood 8 (scholar)
Margret Roskell 18 (servant)
Priscilla Jonson 10 (servant)
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Seafield House School, near St Cuthbert's Church, Lytham
c1890.
In 1855 it moved into new premises in Seafield Road and became known
as Seafield House School. Over the years school principals were: The Misses Tait; Dr John Sisson
Slater (by1885); Messrs. J Bouch M.A. & E.C.Pochin; Mr. Keith B.Sewell M.A., from 1935, until
the schools closure in 1937.
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People at Seafield House School on the night of the 1871 Census (31 March)
and their ages:
Eliza Townsend 52 (principal)
Constance Townsend 27 (assistant teacher)
Fanny Townsend 30 (assistant teacher)
Annie Oxley 32 (governess)
Maude Edgecumbe 22 (governess)
Caroline Beaulah 30
Walter Agnew 9 (boarder/scholar)
Charles Allen 9 (boarder/scholar)
Russell Allen 10 (boarder/scholar)
Walter Ashworth 8 (boarder/scholar)
Ernest Burdett 13 (boarder/scholar)
Walter Carlisle 8 (boarder/scholar)
Frank Carver 9 (boarder/scholar)
Perley Cawer 11 (boarder/scholar)
John Craven 11 (boarder/scholar)
Matthew Gibborn 9 (boarder/scholar)
Herbert Greaves 12 (boarder/scholar)
Walter Hyden 9 (boarder/scholar)
William Johnson 12 (boarder/scholar)
Richard Kay 8 (boarder/scholar)
Elliott Lees 8 (boarder/scholar)
Claud Lonsdale 12 (boarder/scholar)
Herbert Lund 12 (boarder/scholar)
George Menton 10 (boarder/scholar)
Oliver Openshaw 11 (boarder/scholar)
Frederick Ramsden 11 (boarder/scholar)
Marcus Rea 10 (boarder/scholar)
John Robinson 12 (boarder/scholar)
Harry Roylance 11 (boarder/scholar)
Fritz Sharp 10 (boarder/scholar)
William Stanley 9 (boarder/scholar)
Osby Thistlewaite 13 (boarder/scholar)
James Walker 9 (boarder/scholar)
Henry Whitehead 8 (boarder/scholar)
Willie Yates 10 (boarder/scholar)
Margaret Gibson 28 (domestic servant)
Ann Gough 20 (domestic servant)
Margt Greaves 22 (domestic servant)
Mary Greaves 25 (domestic servant)
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Seafield House School, near St Cuthbert's Church, Lytham
c1890.
Seafield House School, near St Cuthbert's Church, Lytham
c1890.
For a newspaper article about the school history CLICK HERE.
To view an advert for the school in 1935 CLICK HERE.
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