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 The first
visual indication of the impending demolition
was the appearance, over the Christmas period,
of heavy equipment sitting ominously in the
school yard.
 Around the 4th
of January work began on the 1958/1965 wing
that faced on to Park Street.
 The Park Street
entrance with its canopy and planter, housing a
comemoration stone for the 1958 extension, was
buried in a mountain of debris.
  At the end of the 1965 portion of that wing you can see the staircase that led down to the exit door that gave access to the playground.  Once the 1965
block was down the machines turned their
attention to the 1971 expansion. In the
image below you can see the circular
library. The brick veneer has already been
peeled off exposing the concrete blocks beneath.
    With a section of the wall removed, the roof of the library collapsed.  In very little time the library was reduced to its foundation.  The largest
portion of the 1971 development was the
gym In the image beow only evidence of the
stage remains.
   By Friday the
Thirteenth of January the school was reduced
back to the original school in the format
created in 1922 when the second floor was
added. For a
moment you might have though that maybe someone
had come to his or her senses and decided to
save the old building. You would have been
wrong.
 With very
little delay the machines began work on the
final phase.
    So in about 3
weeks the home to a hundred years of memories
was reduced to the sad pile of rubble.
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