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

P AGE N O : 64 Three kitchen boiling pans replaced in the School Kitchens at a cost of £535 (£24,770 today) (General Purposes Meeting, February, 1951) Plans for the War Memorial Library and Art School once again deferred by the Regional Priority Officer (General Purposes Meeting, February 1951)

Additional W.C. provided in Macnamara’s House (Jack Tate list 1955) Additional seating provided in the Dining Hall (Jack Tate list 1955)

Provision by Territorial Army Association of Naval Section Hut at the Boat House (Jack Tate list 1955) Arrangements made with Oxford Fire Brigade for periodic filling and emptying of the Outdoor Swimming Pool - with outstanding results (Jack Tate list 1955). 1952 - As part of the Arthur Tilly Memorial tribute ( he had died in 1951 in the Sanatorium ), a small wooden Cricket Pavilion will be erected on the Colts Cricket Field. Group Captain Douglas Bader (O.S.E.) duly opens this on 14th June 1952, the work of Messrs. Reg Barson and Smith from the School staff (September Chronicle). A Chestnut tree which restricted the use of the Colts Field is chopped down at the same time (General Purposes, February 1952) School purchases 6 acres of the Avenue Field from the Blenheim Estates, which had been leased for years. The payment is £2,500 (£106,250 today) and with this purchase the School can say that, for the first time, they own every yard of its grounds School finally receives planning permission for the War Memorial Library in November, after four years of trying School leases 41 Stratfield Road to accommodate a School plumber and his wife and four kitchen staff (General Purposes Meeting, February 1952) School’s efforts to build new quarters within the grounds for domestic staff likely to be rejected by the Regional Licensing Officer. The preference to lease or purchase houses in the neighbourhood instead would receive sympathetic hearing if alterations were considered necessary (General Purposes Meeting, February 1952) 6 Field House Drive now solely occupied by Stewart Pether as Charles Mather (both Masters) has moved out (General Purposes Meeting, February 1952) School carpenter Reg Barson makes the necessary alterations to the Choir Screen in Chapel to give a better view of the Chancel and provides a new reading desk or pulpit ‘from the old timbers’ (General Purposes Meeting February 1952) High priority given to the building of married quarters onto the existing Segar’s House, hopefully no later than the summer of 1954 (General Purposes Meeting, September 1952), costs expected to be around £3,500 (£148,750 today) (General Purposes Meeting, October 1952) Funding for the future drainage and resurfacing of the Quadrangle with the two separate operations needing to be accomplished by at 6 months. Total estimates of cost are £3,150 (£133,875 today) paid for by the Development Fund, The School Shop and the Roads Reserve Budget (General Purposes Meeting, September 1952) Minister of Education sponsors £16,000 (£680,000 today) towards the new Memorial Library and Art Room Building in her budget for 1952/3 - the Ministry of Works instructed to grant the appropriate license as soon as possible after 1st January 1953 (General Purposes Meeting, October 1952). Initial site