Church Farm Industrial School for Boys

The Church Farm Industrial School for Boys was an industrial school in East Barnet. It was founded by Crimean War veteran and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood patron Lt Col William James Gillum in 1860 after buying a farmhouse on part of the estate of Trevor Park for use as a farm branch of Boys' Home Industrial School on Euston Road in Central London. Gillum became the first superintendent and was assisted by his wife Leonora. In 1863 it became a certified industrial school independent of the Euston Road school and began to receive boys committed to it through magistrates courts. In 1933 it became an approved school and moved to Surrey in 1937.

It once provided the choristers for the nearby church. Some of the buildings are now used as the Oakhill Campus of Mill Hill County High School, other parts as a leisure centre and others as housing.

Several buildings in the grounds of the school are listed with Historic England.

References

"The Children's Homes website - Church Farm Industrial School for Boys, East Barnet, Hertfordshire". childrenshomes.org.uk.
"Colonel William Gillum". London Remembers. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
"A school for street urchins". Times Series, Barnet Borough Times. 5 April 2004. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
Pevsner, Nikolaus (1953). "Colonel Gillum and the Pre-Raphaelites". The Burlington Magazine. 95 (600): 78–81. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 871017.
"Parishes: East Barnet". british-history.ac.uk.
"St Mary the Virgin - The Little Church on the Hill – east barnet parish church". stmarys-eastbarnet.org.uk.
Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1359129)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1064755)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1359114)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 October 2015.

External links

Gear, Gillian Carol Industrial schools in England, 1857-1933 : 'moral hospitals' or 'oppressive institutions'?
CHURCH FARM INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS Partial staff list to 1905

v t e Schools and colleges in Barnet
Primary schools	Danegrove Primary School London Academy St Mary's and St John's CE School Wren Academy
Secondary schools	Ashmole Academy Bishop Douglass Catholic School Christ's College The Compton School Copthall School East Barnet School Finchley Catholic High School Friern Barnet School Hasmonean High School Hendon School Jewish Community Secondary School London Academy Mill Hill County High School Queen Elizabeth's School for Girls St Andrew the Apostle Greek Orthodox School St James' Catholic High School St Mary's and St John's Church of England School The Totteridge Academy Whitefield School Wren Academy
Grammar schools	Henrietta Barnett School Queen Elizabeth's School St Michael's Catholic Grammar School
Independent schools	Brampton College Dwight School Holland House School King Alfred School Mill Hill School Mount House School North London Grammar School Pardes House Grammar School Susi Earnshaw Theatre School
FE & sixth form colleges	Barnet and Southgate College Woodhouse College
Defunct schools	Aida Foster Theatre School Church Farm Industrial School for Boys Friern Barnet Grammar School The Mount School Woodhouse Grammar School

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