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65 Quoted in Bradburn 1989, 180.66 A nursery training college was built adjacent to the school in 1929-30 and extended in 1937 and1950, to the designs of Victor Wilkins.67 ‘The educational and hygienic experience gained in many open-air recovery schools will prove ofthe greatest value in ordinary elementary schools. This may lead in later years to the establishmentof schools similar in position, buildings, equipment and instruction, for ordinary elementary children’.Dr F. Rose, quoted in the report of the LCC education committee, LCC minutes 26 May 1908, p1215.For the ‘double veranda’ model, see Clay 1929, 27. Clay illustrates the Henderson Avenue School,Crosby, Lincolnshire, by H.G. Gamble of 1925.68 Board of Education 1931, 17.69 Davies 1939.70 Quoted in English Heritage report of April 1999 by Elain Harwood; copy in the Historians’ Files,English Heritage London Region, file reference L A M178.71 LCC 1939, 66.72 LCC 1939, 67.73 LCC Annual Report 1937: Forward to Vol. 5 by E.M. Rich, Education Officer.74 LCC Education Service Particulars, 1931.75 LCC 1929, 100.76 LCC Education Committee minutes 21.2.1940.; Ministry of Information 1941, 4.77 Haward (1912-2002) had first-hand experience of continental modernism, having worked forMendelsohn and Chermayeff from 1934-36. After the war he joined the Ipswich firm of Johns andSlater and went on to design many schools in East Anglia.78 Board of Education circular 1477 of 26.9.39.79 Bullock 2002, 184.80 LCC 1954, 17.81 Stillman and Cleary 1949, 18.82 Clarke Hall 2007, 76.83 LCC 1947, 12.84 Saint 1987, 57.85 Harwood forthcoming a.86 Saint 1987.87 See, for example Lyons Israel and Ellis’s Parkhouse Mixed Secondary School, Sheffield, of 1964;Wokingham Mixed Secondary School, Berkshire, of 1965 and David Lister Higher School,Humberside of 1965. The LCC A D employed separate-block planning at the Chesterton PrimarySchool, Park Road, Dagnall Street, L B Wandsworth of 1963, in which 14 square classrooms arearranged in a chequerboard formation.© ENGLISH H ER I TAG E 43 - 20 0985