Sujet

Tyne Docks British Schools, 1869. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Tyne Docks British Schools, [South Shields, Tyneside], 1869. School built '...on ground given by the railway company, adjoining the Tyne Dock railway station. Mr. Prosser, architect to the North Eastern Railway Company, prepared the plans for both the National and British Schools: both buildings are alike...The design is of mediaeval character, freely treated, without pretensions to elaborate and ornamental details, the architect's chief aim being to meet the requirements of schools - good arrangement, well-lighted and ventilated. The building...is of red bricks, relieved by the introduction of fire bricks...Large class-rooms are attached to each of the schools, and also all the usual conveniences. In the playgrounds are covered sheds communicating with each school door, and these have been erected in order to allow the children to take their usual outdoor exercise in wet weather. Mr. Robert Bates, of South Shields, was the contractor for the whole of the works...The buildings will accommodate between 700 and 800 children, who are placed under four efficient certificated teachers. There are between 300 and 400 children in daily attendance. The schools are calculated to do a large amount of good in a populous and largely increasing district'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A35_343

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

6,7Mo (451,2Ko) / 15,6cm x 10,8cm / 1838 x 1276 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building England architecture education arts art British school century tyne and wear Britain newspapers press print B&W engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News South Shields TGN ILN outside newspaper Unknown South Tyneside Tyne Dock 19th-century The Illustrated London News