School Wilmslow Cheshire (700 places)

WILMSLOW - New council schools at Wilmslow, Cheshire, were opened on Tuesday last. Accommodation is provided for 700  scholars (200 infants, 250 juniors, and 250  seniors), in addition to which provision is  made for science teaching, a manual instruction room, metalwork-room, a well-equipped laundry and cookery centre, housewifery centre, and a caretaker's cottage. The special features are:- That the central halls in each instance are lighted along one  side with windows starting at the dado height, instead of by the old method of clerestory windows high up; also the absence of  any long corridors in the entrance-halls,  thereby giving more immediate access to and  egress from all entrance doorways; then, again, the setting out of the various blocks to be independent of one another and still  have easy approach to the entrance of each  from the road; and the positions of the  various teachers' rooms, which are so  arranged that from their windows absolute  supervision is secured across the whole of the  various playgrounds and entrances, as well as  internally over the crush-halls and the inside  of the entrance doorways. The general contractors are Messrs L. Brown and Sons, of Wilmslow, Mr Baker was the clerk of works, and the terra-cotta was by the Hathern Station Brick and Terra-Cotta Co.  The architect is Mr Herbert H Brown, of 20, Brazennose-street, Manchester, whose designs we illustrated in our issues of May 7  and. 14, 1909.[Building News 5 August 1910]

Reference    Manchester Guardian Saturday 26 September 1908 Page 15 (Contracts)
Reference    Manchester Guardian Saturday 3 October 1908 Page 5 (Contracts)
Reference    Building News 25 September 1908 Page xiv (Tenders open)
Reference    Builder 6 February 1909. Page 158 - revised designs had been prepared
Reference    Building News 7 May 1909 – design illustrated
Reference    Building News 14 May 1909 – design illustrated
Reference    Building News 5 August 1910 – opening.