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| AdminHistory | In 1872 the Council decided that the new schools would not be built with boarding houses. In 1875, the head of Norwich High School was asked to draw up a proposals and the Council appointed a Boarding House sub-committee. It was decided that licences for boarding houses should be applied for from the Council through the head mistresses, though 'the existence of boarders was to be recognised rather than encouraged'. In the early years, most, but not all, boarding houses were licensed and run by people unconnected to the Trust. Later the boarding houses were run by the schools and run by the head mistress or a house mistress. By 1904, 21 schools had boarding houses, but by 1910 there were only 12, and only 8 by 1930. Most of the schools not longer operated boarding houses after World War Two. The only exceptions were Bath and Oxford, who continued to run a boarding house until the mid 1970s and Brighton and Hove High School, whose boarding house closed in the 1980s. |