Technical Institute and Public Library (Phase II). Stretford Road, Old Trafford

The Education Committee the Stretford District Council have just completed an important addition to the Technical Institute, Old Trafford, and yesterday afternoon the building in its entirety was formally handed over to the care of Mr. F. W. Bates. the Chairman of the Education Committee. On the ground floor the library has been provided with additional accommodation, and on the first floor the lecture hall has been extended by the addition of a lesser hall; the length of the two being over 100 feet. On the second floor there are store-rooms, a spacious kitchen, with lavatory and cloak-room accommodation. and the rest of the building is devoted to class-rooms for technical instruction. In the basement there are handicraft and cookery rooms; ground floor, drawing, class, and cookery class rooms; and higher up lecture hall and sewing class-room. The fire-proof floors are constructed on the armoured tubular principle, remarkable for simplicity in construction, durability, and strength. The class-room floors are finished in "euboclith," and those of the library and lecture hall are of pitch pine wood blocks and polished. The extension, including equipment, cost about £5,300.  The whole of the work has been carried out under the supervision of Messrs. John Bowden and Company, architects, Ridgefield, Manchester. [Manchester Courier 7 February 1913 page 9]

Reference        Builder 5 January 1912 page 26 – tenders  (accepted tender  £4,674)
Reference        Manchester Courier 7 February 1913 page 9