Neville Cardus
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Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus CBE was an English writer and critic. From an impoverished home background, and mainly self-educated, he became The Manchester Guardian's cricket correspondent in 191
Neville Cardus, pictured in old age
Albert Square, Manchester (depicted in 1910 by Adolphe Valette), where Cardus and his self-educated friends met regularly for discussion and debate
Victor Trumper, whose batting was placed among "all the delights I have known" (Autobiography)
Shrewsbury School, seen from the River Severn
School boards were ad hoc public bodies in England and Wales that existed between 1870 and 1902. They established and administered elementary schools, called "board schools".
Neville Cardus
…and other cultural facilities were easily accessible from the Cardus home. Neville described his formal schooling as limited to five years at the local board school, where the curriculum was basic and the methods of tuition harsh: "[T]he boy who showed the faintest sign of freedom of the will was caned". There is…
A board school in Kempston, Bedfordshire
Country Board School in Devon near South Molton. Opened 1876 for just 16 pupils; closed 1922. Now a private dwelling (semi-detached) and Grade II listed.