Building Name

Technical School and Free Library. Union Street, Hyde

Date
1897 - 1899
Street
Union Street
District/Town
Hyde, Tameside
County/Country
GMCA, England
Work
New Build

HYDE - The foundation stone of the new Technical School and Free Library at Hyde (Manchester) was laid on the 3rd inst. The school is being erected in Union Street, and will cost something like £12,000, of which sum Mr. Thomas Ashton and his family have contributed £2,000. The school will accommodate about a thousand students, and the library will contain some 14,000 volumes. The architects are Messrs. Woodhouse & Willoughby, of Manchester. The building is to be faced externally with Ruabon stock bricks, the dressings being executed in Doulton's biscuit-coloured terra-cotta. [British Architect 9 July 1897 page 501]

TECHNICAL SCHOOL AND FREE LIBRARY. HYDE - The new buildings of the Hyde Technical School and Free Library was opened on the 18th ult. The building which is in Union-street and near the Corporation Baths and the Mechanics Institute, has been built at a cost of about £13,000. It has accommodation for 1000 students. In the basement are rooms for laundry work, cooking, dress-making and art modelling. The ground floor has a reading room, ladies room, lending department of the library, librarian’s room, the secretary's office, committee room and the building construction and machine construction departments. On the first floor are the chemical laboratory, the chemical theatre for scientific lectures, the chemical master’s room, the physics laboratory, the elementary art room, the advanced art department and the art master’s room. The architects of the building were Messrs Woodhouse and Willoughby. [Builder 4 March 1899 Page 229]

HYDE - The new building for the technical school and free library was opened on Saturday afternoon. The premises, which are in Union street and near the Corporation baths and the Mechanics' Institute, have been erected at a cost of about £13,000. Of this sum the Corporation provided £5,000, and £1,040 was obtained from the old Mechanics' Institute. The new building has accommodation for 1,000 students. In the basement are rooms for laundry work, cooking, dressmaking, and art‑modelling. The ground floor has a reading‑room, ladies' room, lending department of the library, the librarian's room, the secretary's office, committee‑room, and the building construction and machine construction departments. On the first floor are the chemical laboratory, the chemical theatre for scientific lectures, the chemical master's room, the physical laboratory, the elementary art room, and the advanced art department and the art‑master's room. The architects were Messrs. Woodhouse and Willoughby, of Manchester. We illustrated the building in our issue of Feb. 28, 1896. [Building News 24 February 1899 Page 266]

HYDE TECHNICAL SCHOOL AND FREE LIBRARY -- The new building of the Hyde Technical School and Free Library was opened on Saturday afternoon by Mrs Mark Ashton. The building, which is in Union street and near the Corporation baths and the Mechanics' Institute, has been built at a cost of about £13,000. Of this sum the Corporation provided £5,000, and £1,040 was obtained from the old Mechanics' Institute. The new building is of handsome appearance, and is fully adapted to meet the needs of the Science and Art Departments. It has accommodation for 1,000 students. In the basement are rooms for laundry work, cooking, dressmaking, and art‑modelling. The ground floor has a reading‑room, ladies' room, lending department of the library, the librarian's room, the secretary's office, committee‑room, and the building construction and machine construction departments. On the first floor are the chemical laboratory, the chemical theatre for scientific lectures, the chemical master's room, the physical laboratory, the elementary art room, and the advanced art department and the art‑master's room. The architects were Messrs. Woodhouse and Willoughby, of Manchester. [Manchester Guardian 20 February 1899 page 3]

Reference    British Architect 9 July 1897 page 501 – foundation stone
Reference    Manchester Guardian 20 February 1899 page 3 - opening
Reference    Builder 4 March 1899 Page 229
Reference    Building News 24 February 1899 Page 266