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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]4th March 1893 R/H TECHNICAL EDUCATION On Tuesday evening a meeting of the joint committee appointed for the purpose of carrying out the technical education question for Heanor and Langley Mill, and the erection of a district school at Heanor, and supplying suitable accommodation at Langley Mill, was held in the Local Boardroom. Mr Thos. Mayfield presided, and said they had been called together for the purpose of arriving at some decision respecting the providing of a building or buildings for technical education purposes. A rate of a 1d. in the £ only could be made for technical education purposes. He had heard that Heanor Old Hall was about to be given up and let. Mr Hawkridge, the County Council organising secretary, had been over to Heanor, and considered the place would be admirably adapted to meet their requirements. The premises would only require the expenditure of about £20 in alterations, and the County Council would bear one-third of the expenses in furnishing. They could erect a building at Langley Mill for which the County Council would probably grant one-third of the cost, but it would be for them to decide which scheme they would adopt. One would cost them £2000, and one now suggested only about £400 and rent. A lengthy discussion ensued, in which the majority of the committee favoured the taking of the Old Heanor Hall. The surveyor stated that if the schools were built for a special purposed that Heanor Hall be taken over as described, and that the local board became tenants, the chairman being requested to recommend the board to take the necessary steps for that purpose. Mr. J. Holmes having seconded, the resolution was unanimously carried. It was also decided that the secretary write the County Council asking them definitely what they were prepared to do for Heanor as to the furnishing of the new premises, and also what for building, &c, at Langley Mill Messrs Grassby, Mayfield, Bardill and Holbrook were appointed a sub-committee to prepare a scheme and statement of alterations required and the probable cost. [/quote]
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replied on: 3/30/2008 10:13:39 PM

4th March 1893
R/H
TECHNICAL EDUCATION
On Tuesday evening a meeting of the joint committee appointed for the purpose of carrying out the technical education question for Heanor and Langley Mill, and the erection of a district school at Heanor, and supplying suitable accommodation at Langley Mill, was held in the Local Boardroom. Mr Thos. Mayfield presided, and said they had been called together for the purpose of arriving at some decision respecting the providing of a building or buildings for technical education purposes. A rate of a 1d. in the £ only could be made for technical education purposes. He had heard that Heanor Old Hall was about to be given up and let. Mr Hawkridge, the County Council organising secretary, had been over to Heanor, and considered the place would be admirably adapted to meet their requirements. The premises would only require the expenditure of about £20 in alterations, and the County Council would bear one-third of the expenses in furnishing. They could erect a building at Langley Mill for which the County Council would probably grant one-third of the cost, but it would be for them to decide which scheme they would adopt. One would cost them £2000, and one now suggested only about £400 and rent. A lengthy discussion ensued, in which the majority of the committee favoured the taking of the Old Heanor Hall. The surveyor stated that if the schools were built for a special purposed that Heanor Hall be taken over as described, and that the local board became tenants, the chairman being requested to recommend the board to take the necessary steps for that purpose. Mr. J. Holmes having seconded, the resolution was unanimously carried. It was also decided that the secretary write the County Council asking them definitely what they were prepared to do for Heanor as to the furnishing of the new premises, and also what for building, &c, at Langley Mill Messrs Grassby, Mayfield, Bardill and Holbrook were appointed a sub-committee to prepare a scheme and statement of alterations required and the probable cost.

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