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Founded in 1871 by the suffragist Frances Mary Buss, who also founded North London Collegiate School, the Camden School for Girls was one of the first girls' schools in England. Although not a fee-paying school by then, girls in the mid-20th century wore a traditional uniform of dark green, with blue and green striped ties.
- 150 Years
- 150 Years of Pioneering Education
- 1871 -1877 Rapid Expansion
- 1878 Move to Prince of Wales Road
- The War Years
- The 1960s
- School Uniform
- 2013 6girls No Buoys Swim For Science Labs
- A History of Camden School For Girls
2021 marks 150 years existence of Camden School for Girls and the school carries on its traditions and remembers every Spring its founder Frances Mary Buss who was such a visionary. Doris Burchell CBE, past headteacher at CSG from 1946 - 1968, writes in her book ‘Miss Buss’ Second School’ that Frances Mary Buss spent her life in preparing a pitch o...
Frances Mary Buss was born in 1827 and founded The North London Collegiate School in 1850 aged just 23. All the family assisted with the school including her brother Septimus and her father, R.W. Buss, who illustrated Dickens' novels. She was the first person to coin the term ‘headmistress’ and the first to use it! In July 1870 she handed NLCS to t...
The Camden School grew rapidly from 40 girls to 161 in just 6 months! By February 1873 governors had to take another house in Camden Street and numbers rose to 331. The school’s first waiting list was soon established. Funds for The Camden School were however short and attitudes towards female education were still hostile. The school battled for su...
In 1878, the school moved to a larger building on Prince of Wales Road (now luxury flats) which had previously been the Asylum for Aged Governesses. The school had grown to 420 girls and the architect Mr E. C. Robins FSA had a big task in remodelling the old home into a school. Classrooms were provided as well as a Science Lecture room, an Art Scho...
The First World War saw the creation of the School’s Guild of Good Will with a collecting box put in each form room and weekly voluntary contributions invited. The school also gave up all school and sports prizes and the money saved was added to the fund. Donations were made to the Serbian Relief Fund, the Friends’ War Victims’ Relief Society and t...
In the 1960s, a small factory adjacent to the school became available and plans went ahead for the addition of an additional science wing. On 8 December 1965 Sir John Cockcroft, Master of Churchill College and joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1951) for his pioneering work on “splitting the atom”, laid the foundation stone. Some celebrit...
The school uniform altered somewhat over time. In the early 20thcentury girls wore pinafores known as ‘gymslips’.By the middle of the 20thcentury this had evolved into a bottle green uniform with a school tie and blazer.By the mid-1970s the uniform had been abolished.On Sunday 1st September 2013, a team of 6, 4 of whom were from Year 8 at CSG set out from Shakespeare Beach, near Dover, at 5.30am and swam a distance of 21 miles. They swam in in one hour shifts and reached France in just over 13 hours. A magnificent £18,000 was raised which was put towards refurbishing the science labs. Dame Athene Donald, Profes...
A fascinating memoir of Camden School for Girls which was founded in 1871 by Frances Mary Buss. Written by Fiona Millar, writer, journalist and CSG alumna with photographs and archive material spanning the decades across 150 years. A must-read for everyone in the Camden community! We suggest a minimum donation of £10 which includes UK postage and p...
In July 1870 Frances Mary Buss handed over the school to trustees, and in the following year she founded the Camden School for Girls with the aim of offering more affordable education for girls. She was the first person ever to use the title Headmistress.
founded in 1850, The North London Collegiate School, which needed more space due to increasing numbers. In 1871 Frances Mary Buss opened a second school, The Camden School for Girls, at 46 Camden Street. Miss Buss set out to create a school for the daughters of lower middle class parents –clerks, shopworkers, civil servants, clergymen.
At 23 she founded North London Collegiate School for Ladies in 1850 and 21 years later she established Camden School for Girls. Both began as private schools in family houses in Camden Street, but they grew so rapidly that they moved to larger buildings and were recognised as Public Endowed Schools.
Camden was founded as a school for girls in 1871 by Frances Mary Buss, one of the great pioneers of women's education. The school therefore has a long tradition of promoting opportunities for girls. Our Aims
Camden School for Girls’ was founded by one of the pioneers of girls' education, Frances Mary Buss. We are very proud of the school's history and aim to offer a history curriculum that follows in this tradition.
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