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Thursday, 4 January 2024

A Visit to Randal Cremer 3rd January 2024 (Part Two)

 Continued from Part One



The school's bell tower houses a water tank (Photo Jan 2024)




These fire bells are still in place on each floor although the school also has a modern fire warning system.  It is not clear when the manual bells were installed but they were certainly in place in the 1960s and are probably a lot older.  (Photo Jan 2024)


The author's first time in the playground in over half a century (Photo Jan 2024)






Some Admission Registers are still on site.  These entries are from the index and have been cropped etc to protect data belonging to other individuals.  (Photo Jan 2024) 



The school holds albums of unidentified and undated photographs.  These look like they were taken in the late 1950s or early 1960s.  (Photo Jan 2024)


Randal Cremer School has a long history of service to the community of Shoreditch.  The prospect of its closure is very sad.

The human impact of shutting a school is massive.  I repeat therefore that my thoughts are with those who are going through this process.


Philip Trendall
 
03 January 2024

Acknowledgement

I am most grateful to the school (and especially to the Site Manager) for allowing access to the buildings.  


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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous4 January 2024 at 15:20

    Very good Philip, there is a record of my going to school, brilliant. I do remeber all the parque flooring and the smell of the wax polish in the Autumn term. As for the first photograph this was at Christmas as there is a shepherd or maybe 2, but where the cowboy comes in I don't know, maybe rounding up the oxen.
    Hoped Nicki enjoyed the day too. .

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