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Description of the Buildings.
The Committee's Architect (Mr. J. H. Jacques) has kindly
supplied the following; particulars:—
"THE EDITH KERRISON Nursery School is built on what
was the School Gardens, at the rear of the Rosetta Road Infants'
School; the site adjoins the Beckton Road Recreation Ground, and
is secluded and yet easy of access.
The buildings consist of three large rooms, facing South,
to accommodate 40 children each. At the rear of these rooms is
a corridor with a Bathroom, two Cloak-rooms and two Offices,
easy of access from the main rooms. At right angles to the main
rooms are the Head Teacher's Room, the Main Entrance, Kitchen,
Store Rooms, Staff Room, and Isolation Room. Around the
buildings is a paved space for playground in any weather, with a
sandpit, and in front of the buildings, at a lower level than the
paved playground, is a grassed playing space. Trees have been
planted along the South and East boundaries.
The buildings are constructed with a steel framework on a
concrete base, filled in with studding and weather boarded on the
outside, and covered with asbestos sheeting on the inside, the roof
being covered with rough boarding and asbestos slabs. The front
of the Main Rooms is filled in with glazed framing, most of which
can be thrown open, as is also the rear of the rooms backing on
the Corridor. The Bathroom has tiled walls, with asphalted floor
and is fitted with a small bath and four sink baths, also four lavatory
basins. There are also two lavatory basins in each Cloakroom.
The Domestic Hot Water Supply and Heating are from the
basement in the adjoining School Clinic buildings; the Cooking
is by gas, and the Lighting by electricity.
THE REBECCA CHEETHAM Nursery School is built on
a site at the rear of the Abbey School, at the end of Village Street,
leading off Marcus Street, and is practically the same as the Edith
Kerrison School, except that the whole of the Heating, Lighting,
and Cooking are done by Electricity."
In both these Schools, the arrangements for cooking are
working satisfactorily, and the buildings, which are of an experimental
character, seem to be well adapted for the purpose. In
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