The Higdons lived here until Tom died in 1939
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The Higdons lived here until Tom died in 1939
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 12 Nov 2010
This sign refers to the Higdens who lived in the thatched cottage near the sign in Mill Green, Burston. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2156875 It is all to do with the Burston Strike School. The strike began when teachers at the village's Church of England school, Kitty Higdon and her husband, Tom Higdon, were sacked after a dispute with the area's school management committee and schoolchildren went on strike in their support. The Higdons set up an alternative school which was attended by 66 of their 72 former pupils. Beginning in a marquee on the village green, the school moved to local carpenter's premises and later to a purpose-built school financed by donations from the labour movement. Burston Strike School carried on teaching local children until shortly after Tom's death in 1939. Information from The Burston Strike School website > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burston_Strike_School
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