Chorley Technical and Secondary School Union Street, Chorley

Architectural Competition held in 1904? Five designs submitted. Won by Cheers and Smith. Contract £10,041 15s 10d

NEW TECHNICAL AND SECONDARY SCHOOL - To Builders and Others. Persons desirous of Tendering for the whole of the works required in the erection of the above School are requested to send In their names, together with a deposit of £3 3s, which will be returned on receipt of a bona-fide tender, to Messrs Cheers and Smith 24. Richmond Terrace. Blackburn, not later than Wednesday the 29th instant, after which date bills of quantities will be supplied and the drawings and the conditions of contract may be Inspected. Jno. Mills, Town Clerk, Town Hall Chorley. [Manchester Guardian 18 June 1904 page 5]

The building on Union Street was opened on 24 October 1906 by Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby as the Chorley Technical and Secondary School. In 1962 it was used as a College of Further Education and since 1986 has been the public library.