The Yealand Friends’ Meeting School – 2018 – Sheila Jones from research undertaken by Dr Joan Clarke
The Friends Meeting House at Yealand, because of its importance as one of the earliest meetings, and as one that has continued in existence since its inception, has been much written about. However, some time ago notes of her research on the meeting made by Joan Clarke, one of the Mourholme Local History Societys founder members and a great contributor to our books, were given to us in the hopes that we would write them up as she had been unable to before her death. Joans subject was the school rather than the meeting itself, and her interests were all-encompassing: the funding, the schools origin, the school premises, the schools place within Quaker education, its continuity, the curriculum, the teachers and the pupils.