ABSTRACT
Amidst the economic disruption, labour unrest and political agitation of 1875-1893, the Attercliffe-Carbrook population continued to grow. Carbrook Board School, therefore, was forced to open a temporary annexe in 1881 and the National School also in 1885, but the closure of a nearby National School in the same year renewed the pressure for places. Increased provision at the National School and the continuance of a temporary department attached to the Board School was, however, insufficient to meet the demands of the growing Carbrook/Hill Top area and the onus fell upon the School Board to remedy the deficiency of school places. Carbrook Board School was becoming, in the words of its inspectors, 'a popular school' and its waiting lists of pupils requiring entry remained large. The schools, therefore, continued to have many internal difficulties with which to cope. The prevailing one, during the depression of the last two decades of the century, was poverty on a new scale.
