[2] The running costs were to be raised by annual sermons, public donations and the two pennies that the children paid for their schooling every Monday morning.

An alternative estimate was that the two rooms, which could be divided by a partition, were the main focus for a school roll of 200 pupils.

[4] The teachers were judged on results and records show that pupils were just taught arithmetic, reading and writing in the weeks before the exams.

[3] It still suffered from absenteeism around the time of the hop harvest and the Dudley School Board issued medals to encourage attendance.

When Jesson's Middle School vacated the building, it was converted into a youth centre before falling short of modern health and safety standards and was thought to be structurally unsafe by 1989.

[5] Black Country Museum officials decided to move the building to its current site in 1989 and the relocation was completed in October 1990, with the exhibit opening to the public in 1991.