Victoria Park School : Henshaw Street Stretford

This is a view of the most recent addition to Stretford’s Council schools. The building is to be known as Victoria Park School and will be formally opened this afternoon by Mr Thomas Johnson, chairman of the District Council. It has been planned to accommodate two hundred infants and four hundred boys and girls, but has ben so arranged hat extension to provide places for two hundred more children will be an easy matter. The Education Committee has shown considerable wisdom in not spending any unnecessary money on external decoration, as much of the total expenditure as possible having been devoted to ventilation, light and all the many details that tend to make life in a school healthy. There are two large assembly halls, one for the mixed scholars and the other for the infants, and the numerous classrooms have been grouped around these. The estimated cost of the new school, including the land and the furnishings is ,12,878, and its opening will cause the closing of the Edge Lane Wesleyan School, the scholars from which will be transferred. Taking these into consideration, the new school will be practically full at the very outset, there being 400 mixed scholars and 160 infants already awaiting admittance. After the opening ceremony this afternoon there will be a promenade concert in Victoria Park. Mr. Ernest Woodhouse, architect, of Mosley-street has designed the building and supervised its construction.

Reference           Manchester City News. 2 September 1905 Page 7 with photograph