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In the classrooms the ceilings are completed In the domestic science room a stores and the windows sills has been put on, also cupboard had been made. Gymnastic the pipes are in permanently now. equipment had arrived from the Educational In the woodwork room the locks have been Supply Association, Stevenage, Herts. put in and also there are some pipes ready to A hat and coat rail was in position in the be put in, the wall has been finished, and boy’s cloakroom and a wire grill in between there are some men putting the marble on the washing basins and the cloakroom. the top so the stairs are nearly finished. Teak from Burma for the seats in the cloakrooms. In the flat, sinks had been 13-11-1939 42nd and 43rd week erected. The bricklayers were building a wall round the playground. When we arrived at the building we saw that the entrance gates had arrived. Inside 47th week all the radiators had been painted and were ready to be fixed in position. Upstairs in the In the boys cloakroom the wash basins are staffrooms all the doors had been put on and being fixed onto the wall. The sinks came the kitchen was nearly finished. from the potteries at Stoke-on-Trent. All the plastering had been done, and a The glazed partition in the shower-bath staircase leading into the roof had been room had been finished. They were putting fixed. in the shower. The oak panelling in the All the walls had been whitened with the central hall had been commenced. This first coat of distemper and finished behind panelling was made of Australlian silky the radiators so the could be fixed. oak. The final coat is light brown. A second coat of distemper had been put on the woodwork Progress to the end of January walls. A partition had been erected in the boys The painters had finished the class rooms. cloak room to separate the wash basins from In the cloak room the plumbers were fixing the coats. the wash basins and working on the cold In the boiler room the domestic boiler and water cistern. the pipes had been covered with a kind of The carpenters were still working on the plaster similar to plaster of paris and painted oak panelling in the hall and some door white. locks and catches had been fixed. Outside drains were being laid to drain the The electricians were still wiring in the playground. building. The floor polishers had been polishing with emery paper fixed on to a 44th and 46th week machine. The new dining-hall had been decorated and In the Christmas holidays a new kitchen had gas stoves, an electric hot plate, an electric been built on the end of the dining hall. The potato peeler, a veger and a refrigator had hot water system had been installed, and the been installed. electric heating and lighting, a larder and The lobbies had been built onto the dining- stores had been put in. hall and inside the hall electric panel heaters In the new school, new doors had been hung had been fixed. at the front entrance. They were made of Australian Oak with glass in the top half of 63rd week the doors. The main work for the past three weeks was Both the girls and boys cloak rooms were the painting. The colours of the upper complete. There were fifteen wash basins classrooms are red, yellow and blue; the complete with hot and cold water pipes and lower classrooms are brown, green and white tiles at the back of the basins. orange. 15