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TECHNICAL INSTITUTE.
The Technical Institute was opened on Saturday, September 28th, 1912;
it was erected on the site of the old Latymer School in Church Street.
Provision for extension of the building, when necegsary, has been made.
Mr. H. Farrands, M.A., is the Secretary, The institution is under the
control of the Middlesex County Council, but there is a local Committee for
technical instruction of fourteen members, two of whom are ladies. The
classes are divided into two main divisions (1) intermediate, for students of
both sexes from 14 to 16 years of age and over, with a two years' course of
work ; and (2) senior technical, for persons of 16 years of age and over. For
1914-15, the classes began on September 28th, 1914, and end on May 1st, 1915.
Some of their intermediate classes are held at Brettenham Road and Croyland
Road Schools. The subjects are many : art, commercial arithmetic and bookkeeping,
carpentry, French, shorthand, typewriting, woodwork ; besides cookery
and dressmaking for the young women. The intermediate classes take arithmetic
and book-keeping, English, shorthand and business methods in a commercial
course, and workshop-arithmetic, English, metal work, carpentry and joinery
in a trade course ; and for girls a domestic course in cookery and dressmaking.
THE SECONDARY SCHOOL.
The original school in Church Street was founded in 1624 by Edward
Latymer. The Secondary School is now managed by a Board of Governors
acting under the Middlesex County Council, who are responsible for the
financing of the school. The Elementary School is managed by the Vicar
and Churchwardens, and is not under the control of the Board of Governors of
the Secondary School.
The buildings in Hazelbury Road were opened on September 24th, 1910.
The Headmaster is Mr. R. Ashworth, B.A. Lond. The site of six acres cost
£1,500. A portion of the site surrounding the buildings is tar-paved for the
purpose of exercise and drill, whilst the remaining portion (nearly 5 acres) is
used as playing fields. A caretaker's cottage consists of ground and first
floors. The school buildings themselves consist of the ground floor only,
and whilst lacking the imposing air which height would give, the internal
disposition provides all the essentials of an up-to-date school. The lighting is
by inverted incandescent gas, the ventilation "natural," and the heating by hot
water radiators. The accommodation has been extended from 75 boys and 75