Science: Physics Laboratory, early C20th
Pupils engage in a series of physics experiments in a room which is now, probably, the southernmost downstairs art studio. Note the gas lighting; Monmouth had a power station (at the Forge, Osbaston) but gas lighting was so effective there was probably no immediate need to replace it. The photograph is from the first decade of the C20th.
Amazingly, some of the items in this photograph have survived to this day, or nearly. The benches were in laboratory P4 of the new science building until recently. The boy, dead-centre of the photograph, holds a steam generator that is now stored in laboratory P1. The glass-cased balances were left in the attic of this building (now the Art Department) when science moved to its present location in 1983. Many were sold in the 1990s. One remains on the window ledge (see the image below) although it is not the very same one as seen in the old picture.
Science: Physics Laboratory, early C20th
Pupils engage in a series of physics experiments in a room which is now, probably, the southernmost downstairs art studio. Note the gas lighting; Monmouth had a power station (at the Forge, Osbaston) but gas lighting was so effective there was probably no immediate need to replace it. The photograph is from the first decade of the C20th.
Amazingly, some of the items in this photograph have survived to this day, or nearly. The benches were in laboratory P4 of the new science building until recently. The boy, dead-centre of the photograph, holds a steam generator that is now stored in laboratory P1. The glass-cased balances were left in the attic of this building (now the Art Department) when science moved to its present location in 1983. Many were sold in the 1990s. One remains on the window ledge (see the image below) although it is not the very same one as seen in the old picture.