Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Friday 20 July 1928

Kilnhurst Effort To Raise £400

A garden fete and sale of work organised to raise a sum of £4OO to renovate the Kilnhurst National Schools in accordance with the requirements of the Board of Education was held at the Vicarage grounds, Kilnhurst, yesterday.

It was opened by Mrs. Burrows, wife of the Bishop, of Sheffield, and the Bishop presided. Others present included the Archdeacon of Doncaster (the Venerable F. G. Sandford), the Mayor and Mayoress of Rotherham (Councillor W . and Miss M. M. Brooke), the Rural Dean of Wath (the Rev. E. B. Gunnery), the Rev. F. Briggs (Vicar of Mexborough), and Canon Sorby (Rector of Darfield).

The Vicar of Kilnhurst (the Rev. F. W. Shepherd) said the parishioners had worked well, and he hoped by this effort to be able to save their Church schools. They had already received £135.

Encouraging speeches were made by the Archdeacon of Doncaster, the Mayor of Rotherham, and the Rev. F. B. Gunnery.

The Bishop Sheffield, in the course of Ins remarks, made the interesting statement that one of the subscribers to the fund was the eminent sculptor, Mr. Charles Jagger, an old boy of the school, who. in sending donation of 10s., wrote: I should indeed be sorry to see my old school disappear.”