| Description | Inspired by a visit to a nunnery known as Sibford Priors in summer 1903 with her Women's Class from George Road Adult School, Florence Barrow thought that the girls and women from the Priory Union (which provided women's classes as part of the Severn Street group of Adult Schools) would benefit from a week in the quiet of the countryside and away from their work and the noise, bustle and dust of Birmingham. As a result, in the summer of 1904 Florence Barrow, M. Jessie Lloyd, secretary of the Priory Union, M..C Albright, President of Priory Union, and Evlyn Sturge, a former teacher at the Priory School, with others, accompanied 82 Priory Union members to Sibford Ferris for a week of excursions, bike rides, walks, and other activities. |