Derbyshire Times - Saturday 02 December 1933 (page 11); printed a lengthy report, which began: 'LADY MANNERS SCHOOL SPEECH DAY. Prizes Presented Bishop of Derby. The annual commemoration service and speech day at Lady Manners School, Bakewell, was held yesterday (Thursday). The commemoration service was held in the Parish Church, and later the staff and pupils and a large number of parents assembled in the Bakewell Town Hall, where the distribution of prizes took place...' [The report included mention that, during his speech, the Headmaster (Mr. A. E. Filsell) referred to the difficulties the School had passed through owing to the death of his predecessor, Mr. E. L. Wilks. The report also mentioned that Mr Filsell: 'expressed his pleasure at the link between old pupils and the School, formed through the Old Mannerians Association, and the success of the Old Mannerians’ Rugby Club', and had also commented on the fact that 'there WAS NO MEMORIAL in the School to the former pupils who fell in the Great War; he was sure that there was a general feeling that they must remedy this deficiency'. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000541/19331202/251/0011

Derbyshire Times - Friday 28 February 1936 (page 7) printed a lengthy report of the previous week's gathering of the Old Mannerians Association, titled 'LADY MANNERS SCHOOL REUNION. TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION' (and included a photo captioned 'A GROUP OF PAST AND PRESENT STUDENTS'). The report mentioned that the Duke of Rutland had promised to lay the foundation stone for the new premises 'during the spring'. It also quoted the Association's President's comment that efforts were underway 'to raise sufficient money to equip the library of the new school, in which there would be a memorial to the Old Mannerians who fell in the Great War'. (He had so far received approximately £40 towards the fund, from 80 contributors, and expressed his hope that 'all Old Mannerians would make some contribution to the fund, even if they could only afford a shilling or two'. The President was also quoted as stating that: 'Since the present school was opened, some 2,000 people had passed through it', and of that number they had been able to trace about 1,200. With regard to the rest, they 'would welcome any information as to their present addresses, so that they could compile a complete register of Old Mannerians'). https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000541/19360228/118/0007

Derbyshire Times - Friday 01 May 1936 (page 26); Report (titled 'NEW LADY MANNERS SCHOOL. Duke of Rutland To Lay Foundation Stone. 300th Anniversary of First Grant'), recounted the School's history since its inception. Commenting that the School had outgrown its current premises 'in various parts of the town', which were 'a state of affairs far from desirable', the report stated that: 'Representations were made to the County Council some years ago, and the school was scheduled for re-building, but the financial crisis of 1931 resulted in the matter being shelved. However, the scheme was again taken up, this time with greater success. The Duke of Rutland, whose family have always taken a great interest in the school, very generously came along and offered the necessary land for the new school. The site is in Shutts Lane, on the opposite side of the road to the school playing fields, and is probably the best that could have been chosen in the town for the purpose...' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000541/19360501/567/0026

Derby Daily Telegraph - Thursday 21 May 1936 (page 13) reported: 'DUKE OF RUTLAND LAYS FOUNDATION STONE. NEW HOME FOR LADY MANNERS SCHOOL, BAKEWELL. The Duke of Rutland yesterday laid the foundation stone of the new school buildings of the Lady Manners School, Bakewell, on a site in Shutts lane, of which he is the donor. The school, a one-storey building, with accommodation for from 250 to 300 pupils and capable of extension, will be one of the most up-to-date secondary school establishments in the country. The library, which is being furnished and equipped at a cost of about £1,000 by the present and past scholars, will contain a War Memorial to the Old Mannerians who fell the Great War. The date of the stone-laying ceremony was selected by the Duke of Rutland as being the anniversary of the date on which his ancestress, Grace Lady Manners, founded the school. During those years the Manners family have been actively associated with it...' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000521/19360521/068/0013

Derby Daily Telegraph - Saturday 19 February 1938 (page 4) reported: 'An Old Bakewell School. WHEN the Marquess of Hartington, M.P., goes to Bakewell next Thursday to open the new Lady Manners School, he will be accompanied by the Marchioness and his mother, the Duchess of Devonshire. This latest addition to the list of secondary schools in Derbyshire is really one of the oldest, for its foundation dates back to the year 1636, when Grace, Lady Manners, provided in her will for "maintaining a schoolmaster for ever to teach a free school within the township of Bakewell for the better instructing of the male children of Bakewell and Great Rowsley in good learning and the Christian religion." For the last 40 years the school occupied premises facing Bath-street, but they became too small. Sections of the school had to be housed in buildings in different parts of the town, which was a source of much inconvenience. The new school is a fine building on the most approved lines. It is situated on the opposite side of the road to the school playing fields in Shutts Lane. The old premises in Bath-street have been sold to the Bakewell Rural District Council, which is converting them into offices for its own use'. [The new buildings were opened on 24 February 1938]. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000521/19380219/015/0004

Derby Daily Telegraph - Monday 20 June 1938 (page 4) reported: 'THE Duke of Devonshire was to have opened the new offices of the Bakewell Rural District Council to-day, but owing to the death of Mr. Ezra Walker, for many years chairman of that body, the arrangements have been cancelled. The growth of the administrative work for which the Council is responsible, rendered the accommodation at the Bakewell Institution altogether inadequate. The buildings in Bath-street, Bakewell, formerly occupied by the Lady Manners School, were therefore purchased. Mr. Walker, as chairman of the Council, had more than anybody else to do with the acquisition of the property and its conversion into suitable offices, and they should serve their purpose for many years to come'. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000521/19380620/022/0004

Geograph website; photo of Manners Family crest at St Mary's Church, Bloxham. (Tagged as 'The Manners family crest is a peacock, the motto 'pour y parvenir' means "to attain", seen here above the south door to St.Mary's church Bloxholm. General Manners bought nearby Bloxholm Hall and refurbished the church in 1812, there are peacocks all around the estate'. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/132779

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Derbyshire Record Office; catalogue ref D3465/16/3; 'Programme for Opening of new buildings by Marquess of Hartington,24 Feb 1938', dated 1938. https://calmview.derbyshire.gov.uk/calmview/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=D3465%2f16%2f3