Board School, Central Road, Blackpool

BLACKPOOL BOARD SCHOOL - A new Board school has been opened in Central-road, Blackpool. This school is the first of its kind to be erected in Blackpool. The building is of two floors, with a marching corridor 12 feet wide in the centre of each floor, having the classrooms grouped round it and entering directly from it. The class and school rooms provide accommodation for 1,047 children, and in all except two cases the scholars will have windows on their left side. The cookery classroom is in the main building. The four cloakrooms are entered from the corridors. Large dry stores are provided in the roof. At the west end of the site a manual instruction and laundry block is placed, while between that block and the main building are the conveniences for the scholars, and the covered play-sheds. The playgrounds are covered with tar-paving, and the whole surrounded with an iron railing, the playgrounds for the boys and the girls being separated by a brick wall. The main building is heated by low-pressure hot-water apparatus, and the ventilation is effected by three electric fans placed in the roof. The buildings are of brick with stone dressing round the entrance, and the main contract has been carried out by Messrs. Jacob Parkinson & Sons, of Blackpool. The heating and ventilation are by Messrs. J. G. Wagstaff, Limited, of Manchester. The structure has been erected from the designs and under the supervision of Messrs. Anderson, Simon, & Crawford, of Edinburgh, and under the inspection of Mr. Caleb Place, clerk of works to the School Board, and Mr. Frank Place, assistant clerk of works. The cost, including furnishing and street-making, will be about £18,000. [Builder 19 April 1902 page 401]

Reference           Builder 19 April 1902 page 401