College's build coming to end
THE first phase of Scunthorpe Technical College was nearing completion in February 1953.
Sixty years ago this month, things were coming along nicely on the Kingsway construction site, near the A18.
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lesson: An electrical class at Scunthorpe Technical College in the early 1950s, featuring Appleby-Frodingham steelworks apprentices
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Christine Foster (18) was the only girl student in the engineering class at the Scunthorpe college in 1954.
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ON-SITE: Foreman bricklayer Mr F Hemingway and his wife relaxing over a cuppa in their on-site caravan at the new Scunthorpe Technical College in February 1953
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DESIGN: This barrel-type roof construction at the south east corner of the main college block was believed to be the only one of its type in an educational building in 1953
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glazing: Mr J H Winter, of Thorne, working on the windows at the Scunthorpe Technical College in 1953
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keeping warm: The "catacombs" network of main heating ducts running beneath the floor of the school. Engaged in the job of measuring the pipes for connections up above was Mr R S Parker, a plumber
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The view from from the top of the 80ft high chimney and tower at Scunthorpe Technical College in 1953.
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underground: A shaft which carried expansion pipes from the boilers and ran alongside the chimney to form the tower. It was warm work climbing the perpendicular iron ladder to the top
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learning: Watching the experts doing the job, these youthful critics in 1953 were the house builders of the future. They left the building theory of the classroom (the Kingsway annexe) for a short spell of first-hand instruction. A special sand and lime type of brick was being used by the workmen
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The distinctive boiler house chimney was described by the Scunthorpe Telegraph in 1953 was pointing like a finger to the sky - from behind the north corner of the college block.
Foreman bricklayer Mr F Hemingway took his wife with him and they lived in a caravan trailer on the site from August 1952.
The Scunthorpe Telegraph was invited along in mid-February 1953 and some of the pictures have survived in our archive.
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That May, 12 young apprentice builders, armed with 1,600 bricks and three tons of mortar, made local educational history when they were the first to make use of workshops which formed the first phase of the new college.
It was later that year when the sound of an electric bell rang through the corridors of the new college for the first time calling 100 young students to the large classrooms, workshops and laboratories.
They took their place three years before the completion of the rest of the college and its official opening and were guided by its first principal, Frederick Jones, who considered the new establishment offered educational facilities never before afforded to local students.
Plans for the third and fourth stages of the construction of North Lindsey College were unveiled in July 1957 when it was revealed these would include the administration block, a dining room and kitchen, library and rooms where specialist subjects would be taught.
If you have any memories or photographs to share with Nostalgia, e-mail nigel.fisher@gsmg.co.uk or write to Nigel Fisher, Nostalgia, Scunthorpe Telegraph, 4-5 Park Square, Laneham Street, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN15 6JH.
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