Stockport Municipal Secondary School for Girls, Greek Street, Stockport

TO BUILDERS AND OTHERS -  Person, desirous of tendering for the whole of the works required in the erection of the above-named SCHOOLS, in Greek Street, and for which Messrs  Cheers and Smith, of Blackburn and London are the architects, 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 the undersigned not later than 16 March 1908, after which date bills of quantities will be supplied, and the drawings and the conditions of contract may be inspected. No tender will be accepted unless the firm tendering pays the trade union rate of wages and observes the trade union number of hours as are usually paid and observed in the district where the goods are made or produced. ARTHUR LAWTON, Secretary to Education Committee 2 March 1908. [Manchester Guardian Saturday 7 March 1908 Page 4]

Reference        Manchester Guardian 15 January 1907 page 3 - Demolitions 1 3 5 and 7 Greek Street
Reference        Manchester Guardian Saturday 7 March 1908 Page 4 Col 7 - contracts
Reference        Builder 14 March 1908 page 317 – contracts