Christ Hospital, Blue Book School, Lincoln

[DelB]

Thanks for that wealth of information about the school.  The John Binns in my family went on to become a stone mason according to the successive census reports.  His father was also a stone mason and his uncle a builder.
Cheers, DelB

[PennyvdB1949]

wonder if he went on to work on the cathedral as a stonemason work there is always on going. The school is right by the cathedral

[PennyvdB1949]

 this will give you some info. My Great Grandad Ellerby Cox was a pupil at the Blue Coat School in the 1881 census    http://www.christs-hospital.lincs.sch.uk/joomla15/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=943:lincoln-christs-hospital-school-the-origin-of-the-name&catid=55:lchs-archive&Itemid=250 the old building in Lindum Terrace is still there  although not now the Christs Hospital School that was on Lindum Road (I went there) the n the girls school was amalgamated with the boys grammar school on Wragby Rd