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Some alterations were made to Grove Road School before the transfer from the old school.  Toilets suitable for infants were constructed indoors.  A room was adapted into the Headmaster’s room and classrooms at the Infants’side of the school were enlarged, 3 rooms being made into 2, which gave the infants a play area in each of the classrooms. The school moved to the new premises on 21^st March, 1967, and re-opened on 5^th April.  The move was satisfactory and was completed by 5 p.m.  the move was greatly assisted by the hard work and extra time put in by Mr. Scott, the caretaker

The children were given a day’s holiday, so that the staff could cope with the moving.  It was a very cold day and of course there was no heating.  The Infants’ Staff were fortunate, their furniture and books were moved first. The Junior Staff were there all day, waiting in the cold classrooms for their apparatus to arrive.  Dressed in warm clothing, they ate their sandwiches at midday, the only warmth being the hot coffee from their flasks.  When the Junior furniture eventually arrived, teachers and a few boys, who were helping, carried desks and chairs to the right classrooms and sorted out enough books etc. for the next day, when it would be school as usual.  The school then closed for the Easter holiday.

Grove Road School had been used by older children previously.  Some of their old desks had been left behind.  As the new occupants were needing more desks, it was decided that these old single desks could be used if the legs were shorter.  So the Caretaker (Mr. Scott) sawed off the legs to a size to fit the junior children.

Having settled in, the school had to be brought up to standard.  The windows were renewed throughout the whole school.  One class at a time moved into an empty classroom while this was done. Next the floors needed attention.  The old wooden blocks, some of which were loose, were taken up, and buckets of hot pitch were carried down the corridor to the classrooms, which were to have composition tiles as flooring.  This operation caused the greatest inconvenience, as may be imagined.  Again classes moved out and back again, only this time corridors had to be avoided somehow. The wiring was another problem.  Wires were hanging across walls and it was difficult to trace their origin.  So the school was completely rewired.