At the opening ceremony he spoke of his plan to divide the school into day secondary and trades departments.
An advertisement in Nature in 1916 shows the school advertising for a principal assistant in the technical department, which comprised "(1) a Junior Technical School; (2) Day Apprentice Classes; (3) the usual Evening Classes".
The opening of a totally new Grammar School building, at Stainburn in September 1954, meant development of the Workington Technical College could continue to take place on the original site.
The speech is recorded in The Wyrkentonian, the Grammar School's magazine, golden jubilee edition.
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