LONDON GETS MORE GIRLS’ TRADE SCHOOLS
LONDON. With the recent completion of the trade school for girls at Clapham there . are now 10 schools in London which train girls for trado and industry and domestic service. Thcso schools counterbalance somewhat the ample provision which exists for girls wishing to take up.clerical work. -Two,of the schools, the Bluecoat Trade School at . Greenwich, and Newcomen’s Foundation Trade School, Southwark, 'perform the very useful and in these days the necessary function of training girls for domestic service. The 10 schools between them cover a large variety of occupations, including dressmaking, tea-room management and cookery, ombroidery (machine and hand), upholstery, men’s Teady-made tailoring, hair-dressing, photography, laundry work, domestic service, and ' waistcoat-making.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6803, 5 January 1929, Page 6
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117LONDON GETS MORE GIRLS’ TRADE SCHOOLS Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6803, 5 January 1929, Page 6
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