Objects of Substance- The Cottages

The classrooms had wooden desks and benches for two [like the ones in the current library spaces] and a set of small, square wooden lockers. [The only remnants of this solid piece of furniture are three square, graffitied doors kept in the School Archive].

Three salvaged lockers doors from the Cottages.

In 1964, I was not, like most 13 year-olds, interested in the history of this small building with its rooftop finial. However, it did have one main advantage: it was on the margins of the campus at that time and a lookout ensconced at the back windows could alert the class when the teacher was coming as, in those days, the classes stayed in place and the teacher roamed. The other clear memory I have is that, in that year on the final day for the Seniors, a couple of carloads of Grammar boys drove in the car park gate just past the building, made a quick and dusty circle, and then exited, yelling gleefully.