A welcome piece of news, Brett. A couple of oddities - one welcome, the other less so. Based on a statistical sample of two schools, FMP have filmed and digitised the front pages of the school registers - so provided the school themselves wrote their own name somewhere on the cover or in the first few pages, we have independent confirmation of the school and book details if you don't happen to believe the index. This is excellent news - I call it "respecting the source". Less welcome - I am having difficulty in accessing some of the images for the pages of Crewe, Bedford St (Girls' Department). I can get the index but the image just sits there with the spinning wheel turning (a.k.a. the donut of death) and no image appearing. However if you use the left or right arrow and then promptly use the right or left arrow to get back to where you were, voila - the image of the page appears. So - no harm done if you remember the trick. (I have reported an inability to access the image - before I discovered the "there and back again" trick). I'm not sure whether it has anything to do with it or not but I remember failing to find the Bedford St Girls stuff on the microfilm at Chester RO. Yet there it is.... Confused? You will be... Adrian B On 22/09/2014 15:37, Brett Langston via wrote: > [Forwarded on behalf of the Cheshire Record Office] > > Cheshire School Admission Registers 1870-1914 >

Looking at this a bit more closely, it may be that I was suffering from confusion over the school names. I just found my note that says "I did not find Bedford St Girls written on the microfilm box (at Chester RO) that was supposed to contain it." However, looking at the front page of the Admissions Register, I see the girls' book is described as "Bedford St School, Girls' Department". So it probably doesn't have "Bedford St Girls" written on the microfilm box at Chester simply because it's all Bedford St School. The Girls' Department is just part of it, not a separate school. Adrian PS - just seen the Register is printed by EJ Arnold of Leeds - ah, the number of exercise books I've used printed by Arnolds! On 22/09/2014 21:00, Adrian Bruce via wrote: > ... I remember failing to find the Bedford St Girls stuff on the microfilm at Chester RO. Yet there it is....