A view looking north along central Main Street

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The shop with the canopied window (No. 90) was originally a private house purchased to become Skerton’s schoolroom. In 1733 John Houseman, the school’s first manager, received £100, a donation made by Jane Jepsom. This bequest allocated £60 for building or purchasing a schoolhouse in Skerton, and the yearly produce of the rest for a schoolmaster to teach poor children. It is believed that the schoolroom was situated in the region opposite the Blue Anchor Hotel. (1895 Ordnance Survey map shows the school to be located further south along the ramparts, about level with the Church, an enlarged St Lukes School, and a new school on the present Junior School site."