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Meg Forrest reflects on the history of Yorkshire Friends Holiday School 1933-2013

A patchwork artefact to celebrate eighty years of Yorkshire Friends Holiday School. | Photo: Photo courtesy of Meg Forrest.

In 1932 the Annual Report of Yorkshire Friends’ Service Committee (YFSC) contained the following paragraph:  In our last year’s report we made mention of our unsuccessful attempt for the past two years to organise a Children’s Summer School in Yorkshire for the advantage of the children who do not attend a Friends’ boarding school. We are happy to report that a way has opened for the holding of such a school next year, 1933, at Ackworth School, the suggested dates being August 4 to 11.

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