Board School, Langworthy Road, Salford
BOARD SCHOOL SALFORD. The memorial stone of the school which is in the course of erection by the Salford School Board in Langworthy Road, Pendleton was laid on the 18th ult. The school will contain three departments accommodating respectively 376 boys, 376 girls and 442 infants, making a total of 1194. The boys' and girls' departments will each contain four classrooms divided by movable partitions together with the necessary cloakrooms and rooms for teachers. The infants school is being built on the central hall system, a large assembly hall being provided into which seven classrooms open, each accommodating from 50 to 60 children. Special provision is being made for instruction in cookery and laundry work for girls and manual instruction for boys. A caretaker’s house is also being erected at one corner of the site. The architects are Messrs Potts Son & Hennings of Manchester. The contract for the main building is being carried out by Messrs Storrs, Sons & Company Limited of Stalybridge; the iron and steelwork by Messrs Dunkerley & Co., Manchester and the concreting and asphalting by Messrs Davies & Co., Manchester.
Further details of the ceremony appeared in the Salford Chronicle, apparently the source of the Builder’s note. Edward Potts attended at which time the memorial stone was laid by the Rev H F Gore Booth, being inscribed "This memorial stone of the eleventh school erected by the Salford School Board was laid by the Rev H F Gore Booth, a member of the Board, November 18 1898".The cost of the site, including the paving of adjoining street and legal charges amounted to £3680, while the cost of building and furnishings including the caretaker’s house and all other expenses amounted to approximately £13,000. It was also proposed to light the school by electricity if the Corporation mains were laid in time.
Reference Manchester City News 5 March 1898 Page 8 (tenders)
Reference Manchester Guardian 5 March 1898 Page 4 (Contracts)
Reference Builder 3 December 1898 Page 511
Reference Manchester City News 19 November 1898 Page 5 Col 1 (Notes) no add information
Reference Salford Chronicle. 26 November 1898 Page 6 Col 5
Reference Salford Reporter 26 November 1898 (MCL copy not readable)