Normanhurst School, Ashfield

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Normanhurst School
Location
Normanhurst School, Ashfield
Ashfield
,
New South Wales

Australia
Coordinates 33°53′11″S151°07′45″E / 33.886373°S 151.1291692°E / -33.886373; 151.1291692
Information
TypeIndependent, girls'
Denomination Non-denominational
Established1882 (1882)
FounderEllen Clarke
StatusClosed
Closed1941

The Normanhurst School was an independent, non-denominational, day and boarding school for girls that operated in Ashfield, in the Inner Western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. [1]

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Despite being non-denominational, the Normanhurst school maintained close links with St John's Anglican Parish, which was situated in the vicinity of the school. [2]

History

The former main building of the Normanhurst School in 2018. Normanhurst School Ashfield Site.jpg
The former main building of the Normanhurst School in 2018.

The Normanhurst School was established in 1882 by Ellen Clarke, who was an English national. [2] Clarke was principal of the school from its founding in 1882 to 1893. [2] In 1884, her sister Marian Clarke arrived in Australia from England to join the faculty, and founded Abbotsleigh the following year. [3]

At its foundation, the school operated out of a cottage located on Bland Street, Ashfield. [2] Later as the school expanded, it moved to another larger campus in Ashfield at the intersection of Orpington and Chandos streets (pictured right). [2]

Through the initiative of the then headmistress, Evelyn Tildesley, the Normanhurst School became a founding member of the Headmistresses’ Association of NSW (which has since become the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools) in 1916. [4]

The school ceased operations in 1941. [1]

Notable alumnae

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References

  1. 1 2 "Normanhurst Girls School Ashfield". The Dictionary of Sydney. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Normanhurst School, pictorial collection, ca. 1890–1920". The State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Marian Clarke, 1885-1913". Abbotsleigh School history and archives.
  4. ↑ "About AHIGS". AHIGS – Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  5. ↑ Akhurst, Daphne Jessie (1903–1933). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 1 April 2008.
  6. ↑ "Janet Louise Cosh". Australian National Herbarium. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  7. ↑ Gill, K. E., "Constance Elizabeth Harker (1875–1964)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 28 October 2023
  8. ↑ "John and Margaret Slattery: The very public couple". 28 December 2015.
  9. ↑ Lawson, V., 1999, Out of the sky she came: The life of P. L. Travers, creator of Mary Poppins, published in association with Belladonna Books. ISBN   0-7336-1072-2


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