inner–london schools 1918–44 a thematic study - English Heritage

60 Board of Education 1938.61 Saler 1999.62 Hill went on to design three further schools, only one of which was built. Two entirely differentdesigns were produced for Middle Park Junior school, Eltham, L B Greenwich in 1938-39, but warintervened. The Senior School at Methely near Rotherwell was one of two schemes for the WestRiding Educational Authority. Whitwood Mere Infant School (Grade II), like the first Eltham design,has a curved plan out of which a fan-shaped hall develops (Powers 1989, 46-48).63 Powers 1987 and English Heritage report of December 1991 by Andrew Saint entitled HillyfieldsSixth Form Centre; copy in the Historians’ Files, English Heritage London Region, file referenceL E W50.64 Powers 1989, 47 and http://www.lynnpearson.co.uk/Yorkshire.pdf.65 LCC 1939.66 Working list of Schools Division architects compiled from LCC A D files held at the L M A . Biographicaldata from B A L biographical files, Brodie et al 2001 and L M A :GLC /A R /DA /02.67 Beattie 1980, 17.68 LCC 1927, 31-32.69 The Architect, 15.4.1921, p268.70 Beattie 1980.71 The breaking-up of the eaves line by classroom windows ran contrary to the edicts of the Board ofEducation, who discouraged them as a false economy (1932, 5).72 The Builder, 26.11.1926, p.874.73 Cooper’s Lane of 1936, Fox, Cubitt and King’s Park of 1937 and Glengall of 1939. TheSuperintending Architect of King’s Park and Cubitt schools was H.F.T. Cooper (1874-1944). An LCCphotograph of Elfrida taken shortly after completion of construction shows an LCC informationboard on which Nisbett’s name can be made out (Photograph in an uncatalogued album held in theL M A entitled ‘LCC schools section photographs’).© ENGLISH H ER I TAG E 43 - 20 0950