Board School Queen Street Bradford

NEW BOARD SCHOOLS AT BRADFORD AND NEWTON HEATH. MEMORIAL STONE LAYING. On Saturday, the memorial stones of new board schools in Queen-street, Bradford, and Holland-street, Newton Heath, were laid by Principal A. Holliday and Lieutenant-Colonel Clark, members of the Manchester School Board, respectively.

The Queen-street school is being erected on a triangular piece of land at the corner of Queen-street and Sloane-street, in close proximity to the existing board school, which was erected while the district was under a Local Board. The new school is intended entirely for boys. It is a one storey building, planned with a central assembly hall, in the sides of which are arranged nine class rooms providing accommodation for 528 scholars. At either end of the hall are placed the entrances, cloak room, and teachers' rooms. A manual instruction room, 36 feet by 24 feet, is provided at one angle and approached by a separate entrance from the playground. In accordance with the instructions of the board the school has been kept studiously plain and inexpensive in character, both inside and out. The class rooms are separated from each other by glazed sliding partitions, and from the central hall by a series of arches filled with glazed screens. This arrangement permits of ready inspection and communication, and when necessary two or three class rooms can be conveniently thrown into one. The floors are laid with wood blocks, which form a firm and almost noiseless floor, and the walls have a dado of red bricks. The building is heated and ventilated by hot air on Langfield's system. The general contractors are Messrs Robert Neill and. Sons, whose tender amounted to £4,690. The architect is Mr. Henry Lord, whose plans were accepted in a limited competition.

Mr. Alderman Crosfield stated that the adjoining school in Queen-street was built in 1880 by the Bradford School Board, but it became too small, and the School Board had had to find temporary accommodation for the junior boys in the large room of the Coffee Tavern, and for the junior girls in the Wesleyan Schools. That was a very inconvenient arrangement, sometimes necessitating members of the same family going to different schools; hence the new school was being built, where accommodation would be found for 500 boys, while the girls and infants would remain in the old school in Queen-street. The site comprised 4,800 square yards, and the extension would cost altogether £7,500. [Manchester Courier 16 July 1894 page 8]

Reference    Manchester Courier 16 July 1894 page 8
Reference    Builder 1894 Volume II page 45