HADRIAN'S WALL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 38, 24 January 1936, Page 4

HADRIAN'S WALL.

Heroic Labours at Stratford School. WORK IN HOLIDAYS. Shovels, trowels, timber and shingle lay round about, and Mrs Kilpatrick was assisting the good work by providing morning tea, when a Post reporter visited the Strattord Primary School to-day to see how the ■ground improvements were progressing. Mr R. L. Hancock, the teacher who was largely responsible for the improvements scheme and whose enthusiasm is keeping him working on the grounds during his holidays, stood like Hadrian, looking fondly at his wall. Beside him was Mr R. Kilpatrick, the caretaker, who is likewise giving his services free in the holidays for the good of the school. They showed the reporter the wall which the school committee working ; bee erected yesterday and which is j intended to prevent rain-water from | eroding the playground. “The worki ing heo was a clinker,’’ said Mr Ham | cock “There were no drones. And i they will be buzzing back for some i more work on Monday evening. Peri haps they will come on Tuesday, j too.” 1 It was quite likely, ho added, that j the two walls required would be comj plated before the school re-opened. I “Of course there will be trees growing I along here,” he went on, gazing at j the concrete with the eye of a visionI awj They then fell to work again, and 1 the reporter, filled with admiration ' and morning tea, left them to it.