Samuelston School bell
This bell was used at Samuelston School, near Haddington, until it closed. Sometime after it was gifted to Haddington Library where there was a small collection of local historic objects.
This small cast copper alloy bell has a triangular loop handle and an iron clapper. There is a band of decorative work around the body comprising flowers and fleur-de-lis, the date 1598 and letters PHSS.
The barony of Samuelston, its community and its school were disjoined from Haddington parish at the creation of Gladsmuir parish, a process completed by 1692. There was still a school at Samuelston in 1837, but the settlement had a declining population and the school closed before the end of the century.
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Pete Gray wrote...
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