Technical School Rochdale

TECHNICAL SCHOOL, ROCHDALE. The new Technical School at Rochdale, built as a memorial to the Queen's Jubilee, was opened on the 26th ult by Sir Bernard Samuelson MP. A Higher Grade Board School erected in close proximity to the Technical School and with which it is more or less connected, was opened at the same time. The Technical School, with its equipment, has cost over £10,000. The building is of red brick with terra-cotta and stone dressings. Provision is made for the teaching of weaving, cotton spinning, engineering, practical plumbing and wood-turning, chemistry and dyeing. Messrs Woodhouse and Willoughby of Manchester and Stockport were the architects. The adjoining Higher Grade school has accommodation for 440 pupils. It contains a lecture theatre, a chemical department and a series of special classrooms. It has been built at a cost of about £7000 from designs by Messrs Butterworth & Duncan, Rochdale. [Builder 6 May 1893 Page 354].

Reference    Manchester Guardian 27 May 1891 page 1 - contracts
Reference    Builder 6 May 1893 Page 354