This end of the 'temporary' building, the other end was hut B , came complete with bunsen burner gas taps and was used as a science teaching room for a number of years. Health and Safety? never heard of it!!
Spent most of my school time in these two huts, Miss Sibson (Ruby)[wife of the Reverend Sibson of Kings Road] she was a wonderful lady (religious knowledge, when it was allowed to be taught); I remember the milk being doled out from Hut A ... yes children had free milk then; Hut B was Mr Guard (mathematics) a very intelligent and friendly teacher. In fact as far as I was concerned, all teachers (except one) were the kindest and most helpful imaginable. When my son went there, the difference in style of teacher was a culture shock.
In my time (1964-72) there were four classrooms in the huts. Two of these tandg and two black tarred fabric covered. I think this pair of rooms probably, (and the other pair possibly), was a single long double-ended hut. I think the grey/blue wooden walled ones were A and B and the other pair C and D. The prefects room was in a hut facing the bike-shed outside the music room I think this was one of C or D but it may have been another hut again.
Four huts '54 to 61 when I was there, hut A had a skeleton by the door - a real one, not a plastic thing, we always wondered who it could have been, so was a Science room (Bio). Hut C was our form room in the third year, Ruby was in hut D where the tuck shop was by the bike shed. We did maths with Ernie Guard in hut A.
@ 61t. When we asked the question in one of our biology lessons we were told that it was the skeleton of an old caretaker from the Girls Grammar School. How much fact there is in this I really do not know.
Blimey, was it still there in your day?
How come I don't remember it, I even had my form room in Hut B one year and had 6th form chemistry in Hut A. My memory needs a rebore.
@ chill. He had moved from the huts to the new bio lab by then, or as known by many Frankie Hulls lair. This block incorporated the new chemistry lab occupied by Jim Treglown. It is the building you see in the background of photographs of sports teams in the 70's
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