Throughout the Second World War the log books report a series of Air Raid Alerts.
Hit & Run raid at about 4.30. Much damage in the town but only slight at school. School opened as a rest centre so school was closed on Thursday. Reopened on Friday. I gave permissionfor the Brit Restaurant to use the Cookery Room to provide dinners for bombed people. Dinners for children cease this friday.
Very few children at school. 38 children in the morning and 54 in the afternoon. Cookery Classes carried on in the Woodwork Room as best as possible.
In the Infants Dept Log Book on the same day:
During a 'hit & run' raid at 4.30pm yesterday when bombs fell near the school, the ceilings were damaged - a quantity of plaster falling into the room & cloakroom. School was therefore closed. It was later found that door locks were broken, 7 tiles blown from playschool roof ... advised that the school should remain closed until a thoroght examination of the whole roof has been made.
