The Building of St Edward's School: A Chronology (1870 - 2020)

P AGE N O : 102 The builders for the C.D.T. Centre and Mathematics Block will be Hinkins & Frewin at a price of £1,055,497 (£4,179,768 today) (Governors’ Meeting, June 1987) £60,000 (£237,600 today) set aside for the replacement of furniture in the Boarding Houses during 1987/8 (Governors’ Meeting, November 1987) School purchases 28 Oakthorpe Road for Masters’ residential accommodation (Governors’ Meeting, November 1987). 1988 – David Christie appointed School’s eleventh Warden Cottages between Corfe House and the Avenue, previously the homes of Sgt. Merry and then Mr. and Mrs. Mutter (Common Room Steward), now accommodating boys from Corfe and the House Nurse (Summer 1988 Chronicle) Chapel redecorated 1986 Appeal reaches £610,000 (£2,318,000 today) by the autumn of 1988 and the new Design Centre opens in September, thus releasing other School buildings for new purposes. The surrounding landscape also completed in what is now to be called the ‘Cooper Quad’ in honour of Graham Cooper O.S.E. and Chairman of Governors 1973-1985. In all, this appeal reaches £642,000 (£2,439,600 today) by 1988 (Oxley, 2015) Work on-going at 236/238 Woodstock Road (Governors’ Meeting, November 1981) Plans for the full establishment of an eighth Boarding House approved (Governors’ Meeting, February 1982) School Acquires 56 Oakthorpe Road for £155,000 (£589,000 today), also a portion of the garden of 54 Oakthorpe Road which borders the School’s property at the Science Laboratory site, price negotiated is £2,555 (£9,709 today) - this land will be used for car parking (Governors’ Meeting, November 1988) School finally takes over the Design Centre and Mathematics Building from the contractors, after a frustrating period of last minute delays (Governors’ Meeting, November, 1988). 1989 - Refurbishment of Sing’s, Field House and Corfe completed during the summer holidays at a cost of £481,000 (£1,740,030 today), increasing Study/Bedroom accommodation. Macnamara’s and Tilly’s largely re-painted and ‘further improvements made in Segar’s, Cowell’s and Apsley’. Work also begins on the new Corfe extension due for completion in 1990 (Autumn 1989 Chronicle) £200,000 (£726,000 today) donation received towards an all-weather sports surface to be named after former Warden Frank Fisher who had died in 1986. New porch built opposite the Cowell Gates (built by two members of the School’s maintenance staff) 1990 - Old Library refurbished with ‘Cup and Dagger’ inlaid in the carpet, display cabinets and the R.A.F. Memorial Window reframed. One purpose for this work is to provide an exhibition area for the Archives (Summer 1990 Chronicle) New annexe added to Corfe House ( Architect Design Partnership design ) (Governors’ Meeting, February 1989). Cost to build the extension is £418,000 (£1,517,340 today) Corfe Boarding House vacate 236-238 Woodstock Road, which will be taken over as the first all-Girls’ Boarding House to be named Oakthorpe House. Initially the building will accommodate 25 girls and a resident Housemistress in the existing buildings and then an extension to the rear will house another 25