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ST EDWARD’S

1929

FEATURE

Plans drawn up in 1929, which include the new Science Block (behind the War Memorial Buildings).

The 18-month project to extend the existing Dining Hall and ancillaries into the Quadrangle was completed. It was a very complex undertaking, stripping out Wilkinson’s original ground floor Main Buildings frontage and replacing it identically, but further forward.The cost was huge, but in March the whole School plus three former Wardens, several Governors and the architect sat down together to eat for the first time ever. Work on a new entrance hall for the Warden’s House was completed as well as a new waiting room in the Sanitorium. In December the new Science Block opened on the School’s southern perimeter (behind the War Memorial Buildings).

Dining Hall extension into Quad 1928/29.

Science Block 1929.

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