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for evening classes but also the professional and administrative services of Heads of schools and Clerks to Governing Bodies which had previously been lacking. Thus we find John Morgan reporting, 'during the year 1903-04 evening and Saturday classes were conducted for outsiders by the Science Master, in theoretical and practical Chemistry, advanced and elementary Botany, Sound, Light, and Heat'.16 It was in the development of embryonic Evening Institutes of this kind that Narberth and other Intermediate Schools succeeded in making a most important contribution to technical and vocational education in the countryside for many years to come. WYNFORD DAVIES Haverfordwest This account of Narberth Intermediate School during its first thirty years or so is based in the main on the file relating to the school in the Public Record office, London, ED35/3397, and on the annual reports of the Central Welsh Board entitled Inspection and Examination of County Schools, dating from 1897. The latter may be consulted at the National Library. Statistical and other relevant details have been taken from these reports. Specific references are as follows: 1 Report in Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph, 12 March, 1890. 2 Report in The Tenby Observer, 25 September, 1895. 3 Schools Inquiry Commission, Vol. I, The Report of the Commissioners, p. 36. H.M.S.O. London, 1868 (The Taunton Report). 4 A more detailed analysis will be found in my article entitled The Curriculum of the Intermediate Schools: Some Antecedent Considerations in the National Library of Wales Journal, Vol. XXI, No. 1 (Summer 1979). 5 P.R.O. ED35/3397, Owen Edwards, Chief Inspector, Notes of Visit, 20 June ,1910. 6 Ibid. B. B. Skirrow, H.M.I., Report dated 3 February, 1903, and W. J. Williams, H.M.I., Minute dated 12 May, 1922. 7 (a) Testimony of the late Dr. William Thomas, C.B. and (b) E. Llwyd Williams in Crwydro Sir Benfro, Rhan II (Llyfrau'r Dryw, Llandybie, 1960) pp. 76-77. 8 P.R.O. ED35/3397, Letter from Clerk to Governors to Welsh Department of Board of Education, 4 November, 1911. 9 Ibid., B. B. Skirrow, H.M.I., Notes of Visit, 3 February, 1903. 10 Ibid., Board of Education Letter to Clerk to Governors, 19 May, 1922. 11 Ibid., W. J. Williams, H.M.I., Minute of 12 May, 1922. 12 Ibid., Owen Edwards, Chief Inspector, Minute of 11 November, 1911. 13 Ibid., B. B. Skirrow, H.M.I., Notes on Visits, 14 June, 1911, and 7 July, 1913. 14 Biographical details relating to John Morgan are taken from Abel J. Jones, John Morgan, M.A., Gomerian Press, Llandysul, 1939. 15 T. H. Huxley: Collected Essays, Vol. II (London, 1893) pp. 411-12, quoted by P. W. Musgrave in an interesting essay on The Definition of Technical Education 1860-igio, in P. W. Musgrave (ed.): Sociology, History, and Education (London 1970). 16 Minutes of County Governing Body, Pembrokeshire, 8 March, 1904, at the Haverfordwest Office of Dyfed Archives. See also my article, Technical Education in South-West Wales, 1889~}1904 in The Carmarthenshire Antiquary, Vol. XVI, 1980.