Laboratories, their planning and fittings . lay. The laboratory was erected in 1907, andas the whole details of cost happen to be in the authors possession, includ-ing those for equipment, it may be interesting, for comparative purposes, togive the figures, which were : Building, including heating plant, ^{^880 ;^Fittings, including desks and blinds, I2JJ \ ^Apparatus (elementarychemistry, mechanics and heat), ^187—Total ^1344. The building is of stock brick with 14 ins. external walls and slatedroof The walls are plastered internally, the floor of wood blocks on con-crete. The building is 11


Laboratories, their planning and fittings . lay. The laboratory was erected in 1907, andas the whole details of cost happen to be in the authors possession, includ-ing those for equipment, it may be interesting, for comparative purposes, togive the figures, which were : Building, including heating plant, ^{^880 ;^Fittings, including desks and blinds, I2JJ \ ^Apparatus (elementarychemistry, mechanics and heat), ^187—Total ^1344. The building is of stock brick with 14 ins. external walls and slatedroof The walls are plastered internally, the floor of wood blocks on con-crete. The building is 11 ft. high to the plate with the roof collar ceiled at14 ft. The laboratory is 36 ft. by 22 ft. 6 ins., and possesses four doublebenches giving a length of 3 ft. 6 ins. each for 32 boys, with, however, only25 sq. ft. of floor per head, a very conservative allowance, in extenuation ofwhich, it may be added, that 14 is the maximum leaving age. The benches1 Made and supplied by Messrs. J. J. Griffin of Kingsway, RECENT SCHOOL DESIGNS 153. I u u^


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