Regent Road Board School, Salford

SALFORD SCHOOL BOARD -TO BUILDERS, CONTRACTORS.  Firms desirous of Tendering for the ERECTION of a NEW SCHOOL in Providence-street, Regent Road, Salford, are invited to send in their names to the Architect, Mr. B. Broadbent, A.RI.B.A., 15, Cooper-street, Manchester. OGILVIE DUTHIE, Clerk to the Board. Salford 25th May 1901. [Manchester City News - Saturday 25 May 1901 page 8]

REGENT ROAD, SALFORD – LAYING FOUNDATION STONE - The school will be faced with red bricks and will have dressings of cinnamon columns, terra cotta from the works of J B Edwards, Ruabon. The whole of the school buildings will be of fire-proof construction, consisting of steel joists and cement with wooden floors above. All the classrooms will have plastered walls and dados of glazed bricks. The central halls will have tiled dados. Special attention has been paid to the heating and ventilation of the building, and in regard to the former there will be an absence of pipes along the floors and so to obviate the harbouring of dust and the germs of disease.

This is the fifteenth public elementary school erected by the Salford School Board. It was being built to replace the two existing buildings in which the children attending the Hope Schools were now accommodated. The premises of these two buildings were not adapted to the present requirements of the Board of Education, in regard to schools. The site contained 3,448 square yards and its purchase involved the acquisition of two houses which formerly stood upon it. The school would consist of two departments, a mixed department on the first floor, with accommodation for 450, and an infants’ department on the ground floor, with accommodation for 327, a total of 777. Each department was provided with a central hall, and six classrooms were arranged on the ground floor and eight on the first floor. The cost of the buildings would be £6,747, including the caretaker’s house. The plans had been prepared by Mr J B Broadbent ARIBA and the contractors were Messrs A Bullivant and Sons. [Salford Chronicle Saturday 26 April 1902 – abridged]

Built on an island site bounded by West Peel Street, John Wood Street, Comus Street and Bartram Street. Opened 8 June 1903. Demolished. Victorian Street pattern destroyed with only Camus Street surviving. Image from junction of Bartram Street and West Peel Street.

Reference    Manchester City News - Saturday 25 May 1901 page 8
Reference    Salford Chronicle Saturday 26 April 1902 – foundation stone
Reference    I. R. Cowan, Work of the Salford School Board (Durham e-thesis)