How can school board minutes help me trace the title to a school building?

if these survive for the parish concerned back to 1873, the opening pages usually list the schools being taken over by the Board and their status beforehand (for example, if the school was run by a church), and sometimes the owner of the property). Any subsequent dispositions in favour of the School Board (for example, land for a playground or an extension to the school) are often engrossed in the minutes. In searches of this kind, it is quite common to find that no title was drawn up, i.e. that neither the owner of the property on which the school building stood nor the school board went to the trouble of drawing up or registering a title deed. In other cases, where a formal conveyance was made, the title deed may include restrictions as to the use, such as a reversion to the previous owner if the building is no longer required for educational purposes.