Page 15 - Front cover sm school.pub

While down there Mr Merritt remarked that All the windows are in position in the south it would make an excellent ‘air raid shelter’ wing. The sewers on both sides had been because of the concrete pre-cast flooring on completed. They led from the boys and girls the ground floor. lavatories. The walls of the gymnasium were ready for The gymnasium had the boards and roofing the roof. All the foundations were felt in position. Some tiles arrived from completed and on the south wing scaffold Bridgewater in Somerset. They were named poles had been erected. interlocking double roman tiles. Some wood arrived from Danzig, Soviet 26-6-1939 Nineteenth Week Russia and Sweden. Most of the wood from Russia is not being used because it is not On Wednesday the 28th June we visited the dry enough. building again. When we arrived there we saw that many rolls of roofing felt had 3-7-1939 21st Week arrived and also much box guttering and water pipe of various diameters. In the south wing they had built up the We noticed that two window frames, eight walls between the window frames. The door frames and the first step for the stairs sewer trenches from the lavatories had been had been placed in position on the south filled in. Men were tiling the roof of the wing. gymnasium. All the roof girders had been built in on the A load of interlocking double roman tiles north wing and the walls were much higher. arrived, also ten large galvanised storage When we entered the gymnasium we tanks. thought that it was bigger than the central The tilers were putting the felt and tiling hall and Mr Merritt said they should both be battens on the boys cloak room roof. The the same size so we measured them and labourers were digging a trench in the front found that the gymnasium measured 31ft of the boys entrance. 8ins by 60ft, and the central hall measured Two engineers are putting the heating 30ft 10ins by 59ft. system in the woodwork room. The site is The gymnasium walls are much higher than only a shade lower than the reservoir so the central hall’s because it is going to have large storage tanks have to be used. a flat roof and the central hall is having an Several cylinders of oxygen had arrived arched roof. from Wembley for acetylene welding On Thursday the coat of arms was placed in purposes. position. There are some metal plates fixed in the floor of the gymnasium to which the joists There is an error in the diary at this point will be attached. relating to weeks and dates. The following All the bricklayers were concentrating on should be either the 20st week of the south wing. Thirteen precast steps of the construction, or a continuance of the 19th. stairs leading to the classrooms had been fixed. 26-6-1939 Twentieth Week The arched roof of the central hall had been shaped with wood. It was relieved by four Two chimneys and a bell turret had been flat dormers. erected. The rafters were in position over the cookery centre and one of the craft 10-7-1939 22nd Week rooms. The stonework in the front of the building The first thing we noticed on arriving at the had been completed. The girls entrance had new school was that the roofing felt and also been completed. All of the lintels have tiling battens were in position over the craft been placed in position over the staff room room and boys cloak room. windows. 10