Monday, January 5, 2015

Thames (NZ): Thames High School 1972

THAMES HIGH SCHOOL 1972: Couldn't resist this one with all the "old" structures. Before the gymnasium etc...
Source: School, Thames, Thames-Coromandel District. Whites Aviation Ltd :Photographs. Ref: WA-70454-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22514648
 

Lots of things that no longer exist - but many remain. On left the tennis courts in front of the Swimming Baths. CafĂ© and music rooms prefab, The old gymnasium. A Block at the front. The School Hall remains the same and then the cooking sewing block. C Block at the front bordering Sealey Street, other prefabs behind and the manual training block on the corner of Sealey and Mackay Streets.