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Rushden Echo & Argus, 15th March, 1940, transcribed by Gill Hollis |
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New First Aid Post
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Scholars Occupy Alfred-street Schools after Long Absence |
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Once more the Rushden Alfred-street Schools are being used as a seat of learning, these buildings, used since the outbreak of the war as Rushden’s First Aid Post, having been occupied on Monday by scholars who were evacuated to the Windmill Hall last September. During the last month structural alterations have been carried out at the Moor-road Schools and a certain amount of first aid equipment was conveyed there, the scholars taking possession of the small portion of the larger Alfred-street Schools thus left vacant. On Monday the transference of equipment to Moor-road was completed and the ex-Alfred-street scholars moved from their temporary Windmill Hall classrooms back to their old school. The Moor-road Schools are stated to make a satisfactory first aid post, but should they not prove to be sufficiently large, then the Alfred-street Schools can be turned into a first aid post again at a moment’s notice. This change in the position of the post has been necessitated by the Ministry of health’s instructions that schools in Reception Areas should no longer be used as first aid posts, and that they should revert to their original purpose. Over a year ago it was decided to make extensive structural alterations at Moor-road and to turn the school into a clinic. The alterations were to be made in such a manner that the clinic could soon be made into a first aid post. The war interfered with these plans so that it was Alfred-street Schools that were altered. Those alterations which have been carried out at Moor-road are not so extensive as were those originally planned.
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