Extension: Municipal Secondary and Technical School Widnes

WIDNES. - Sir Henry Hibbert, chairman of the Lancashire Education Committee, opened at Widnes on Monday an extension of the Municipal Secondary School, which has cost £14.000. The basement of the new department provides for mechanical and electrical engineering. There is also a special room for students attending the technical school who desire to learn decorating and painting. On the first floor there is a large hall, given by Mr. H. Wade, and to be used for assembling purposes and as a gymnasium. On this floor there is also provided a well-equipped room for secondary scholars who are desirous of receiving instruction in handicraft and for evening students in carpentry and joinery. In the upstairs portion accommodation is provided for cookery classes, dining room, men's private room, mistresses' private room, and the girl prefect room. The remaining portions of the extension are provided with classrooms. The plans were prepared by Mr Henry Littler, one of the Lancashire county architects.

Reference    Manchester Guardian 16 October 1909 page 4 - contracts
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