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factorily for all the needs of the district, especially as through the co-operation 

 of employers there was a growing need for day classes for apprentices. 



A Technical College is now in process of erection. The passing of the 

 plans for this and the acceptance of tenders for building was one of the last 

 pieces of work for which I was responsible before retiring from my work as 

 Director of Education, and after striving for years to obtain a Technical 

 College I had the satisfaction of personally digging the first sod for the 

 building. 



The foundation stone was laid by the Earl of Derby in September, 1934. 

 The College will serve for Technical work and as a School of Art. The 

 Technical College will be one of the most useful educational institutions in 

 Blackpool and the district around. It will be linked up with so many different 

 phases of educational activity. 



The engineering students from the Grammar School may attend for 

 Technical Instruction in the engineering laboratories and workshops on certain 

 mornings in the week. The Palatine Central School Boys, on the practical side 

 of the school, will be able to supplement their training in Practical Mechanics 

 by work in the chemical and physical laboratories of the College on certain 

 mornings of the week. Pupils from the Collegiate Girls' School may attend 

 special commercial courses after taking the School Certificate at their own 

 school. 



The chief industries of Blackpool will be specially catered for at the Technical 

 College, or in the Palatine Schools adjoining. Those engaged in the accom- 

 modation and catering for visitors will have special facilities for improvement. 

 The grocers and provision dealers, the butchers and meat traders, the bakers 

 and confectioners who provide foods for visitors, will have special courses to 

 assist them to carry out their work efficiently, and thereby ensure a plentiful 

 supply of food materials of a good quality. They will be taught how to 

 recognise good quality in their respective foodstuffs. Those who prepare the 

 foods so provided may have special day cookery courses during the winter 

 months when the visitors are fewer. There may also be day classes in dress- 

 making, ladies' tailoring and millinery during the winter months. The 

 apprentices or improvers engaged in the building trades or in engineering 

 work will have opportunities to obtain instruction correlated with their 

 every-day work in Evening Classes, and with the co-operation of the employers 

 afternoon classes will also be provided. Those engaged in the motor repair 

 shops, or at garages, will find help for their work in the motor mechanics' 

 classes, and the increasing number of persons required to execute minor 

 repairs to Radio Receivers will have a training provided in the new radio 

 engineering workshop. 



Conclusion. 



Blackpool and the surrounding district are well provided with educational 

 facilities of various kinds, in addition to there being a Public School, Rossall 

 School, in the area. There are many beautiful new re-organised elementary 

 schools, both Junior and Senior Schools, with others in process of building, 

 to provide for the increasing child population (not decreasing, as in some areas). 



