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2003Board2Introduction

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INTRODUCTION TO BOARD 2

 

In the 19th century a national movement took hold at the parish level which became known as Penny Readings, since one old penny was charged for admission. The idea was that the gentry and middle classes would entertain and improve the lot of their fellow inhabitants. The diarist Rev Francis Kilvert (1840-79), working in the remote regions of the Welsh borders, "joined in penny readings", and the dialect poems of the Rev William Barnes (1801-86) shot into demand at penny readings in Dorset. We know from parish magazines that Penny Readings were held in Yateley, and in next door Frimley and Eversley. The diary of John Mills records his attendance at the Penny Readings, held in the recently built schoolroom, now the Yateley Village Hall. In the early years of the 1900s Flora Thompson, author of Larkrise to Candleford is said by her first biographer to have met her future husband at penny readings on the Surrey/Hampshire borders.

 

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Page written by Peter Tipton for the Yateley Society's 2003 Exhibition: Adult Education in Yateley mounted in Yateley Library during Local History Month, for which the theme was Adult Education. This exhibition was held in conjunction with Yateley Workers Education Association (WEA) -- now in 2008 defunct. Pages may have been updated as a result of recent research.

(C) The Yateley Society, 2003 and 2008

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