From home to school
As it is Easter week and the schools are on holiday, the usually busy Cheadle campus, where the Together Trust now resides, is unusually quiet – of people. Within the main offices however the crashing of pneumatic drills and workmen can be heard outside as they labour on a new building to add to the charity’s collection. This building will increase the size of Inscape House School, a Together Trust specialist education service which works with children and young people with autism spectrum conditions and related social communication difficulties.
The school partly resides in a building called Crossley Gaddum, which had been built in 1923 as two homes for boys. Although now refurbished on the inside to cater for the school’s needs, the outside still remains the same, making it recognisable to any ‘old boy’ who returns to the campus.
At the Together Trust’s exhibition that was created in 2011 the charity revealed, through the medium of Lego, how the building had changed. Today young people work in their classrooms where ninety years ago beds were slept in. Downstairs where they eat their lunch, once stood a day room complete with books and toys. As they enter the building through the same wooden doors they pass what used to be a coal cellar, which would have been used to stoke the boiler.
Photographs taken in the 1920’s also show how the building was utilised at that time:
Dormitories in Gaddum
Part of Inscape House School
The school partly resides in a building called Crossley Gaddum, which had been built in 1923 as two homes for boys. Although now refurbished on the inside to cater for the school’s needs, the outside still remains the same, making it recognisable to any ‘old boy’ who returns to the campus.
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| Together Trust exhibition, 2011 |
At the Together Trust’s exhibition that was created in 2011 the charity revealed, through the medium of Lego, how the building had changed. Today young people work in their classrooms where ninety years ago beds were slept in. Downstairs where they eat their lunch, once stood a day room complete with books and toys. As they enter the building through the same wooden doors they pass what used to be a coal cellar, which would have been used to stoke the boiler.
Photographs taken in the 1920’s also show how the building was utilised at that time:
Dormitories in Gaddum
“Where the stairs went up to the dormitories, which was the big dormitory and the little dormitory. I think there were six beds in the big, in the little dormitory and ten in the big ones.”
- Resident at Gaddum Home, 1940s
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| Wash and brush up at Crossley Home |
“The ablutions were, I think, either straight ahead or were just on the left. And there used to be three free standing baths in there and then the sinks at one side and the toilets."
- Resident at Crossley Home, 1950s.
This is cool!
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