Hello Annabelle, School records are usually held at local record offices or sometimes at the schools themselves. The Wirral Archives have a leaflet listing all the school records they hold. Most are for Birkenhead schools but others named are in Wallasey, Heswall, Tranmere etc. Other records administered by Cheshire County Council before 1974 are likely to have been deposited at Cheshire Record Office; the majority of these are from Church of England schools. The Archive phone no. in Birkenhead is 0151 647 39965 and their address is: Wirral Museum, Birkenhead town Hall, Hamilton Square, Birkenhead CH41 5BR The school I am particularly interested in is the old school at Hr. Bebington but these appear to have gone missing. If anyone has any idea where they are I shall be glad to hear from them. Hazel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Annabelle Sutton" <Annabelle@sutton86.fsnet.co.uk> To: <BIRKENHEAD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 24 February 2002 12:18 Subject: [BKHD] SCHOOLS > Hi all, > i am very interested in schools as extra imformation on my ancestors.I recently tracked a school in my area ( Devon) through the census returns 1841-1891.and discovered a lot about the owners who also had a sister school 50 miles away run by other members of the same family.My local record office however have no records on it, presumably because it was a private school,they did however have the local church run school records.Birkenhead may of course be different,and i would also be interested to know if ,or what records exist. > annabelle@sutton86.fsnet.co.uk >