Back avenue new houses....April 05 photos

Post by **jtaylor** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:14 am

Took a few up-to-date photos while I was down at the school last weekend.....Click on each picture for a full-res version of it.

Back avenue behind Lamb:-

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Mon May 02, 2005 8:59 pm

Are these new houses being used as additional boarding houses or an extension of the existing house or for something else?

Post by **jtaylor** » Mon May 02, 2005 9:04 pm

I believe they're new staff houses, equivalent of the ones attached to LHB, LHA, Maine B etc....part of The Master Plan I think.....
J

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Mon May 02, 2005 9:10 pm

Very nice! Haven't been to the school for 8 or 9 years now - seems to have been a lot of changes in that time!

ben ashton · Post by **ben ashton** » Tue May 03, 2005 2:40 pm

they look nice but cover huge amounts of the back ave, not so nice...

tobeconfirmed · Post by **tobeconfirmed** » Tue May 03, 2005 5:53 pm

The houses are amazing inside - in one of them lives one teacher alone! You could literally have two people living separate lives on each floor without even noticing each other.
Last summer holidays, I got to spend two nights in one of those new Lamb teachers' houses, absolutely massive and really luxurious inside. I agree that they take up room on back ash, but those who live in them seem very happy indeed! By far the best staff houses in the school; ahead of the LH/Peele/ThA/MaB attached houses, which are also very nice.

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Tue May 03, 2005 9:36 pm

Do some of the staff still live in the houses down towards the station behind the tennis courts? In fact, are those houses still there?

What about the staff flats in the boarding houses - are they still there or did they lose them when they refurbished the houses?

tobeconfirmed · Post by **tobeconfirmed** » Tue May 03, 2005 9:46 pm

Yeah, everything you mentioned still exists. There are staff flats in the new boarding houses, pretty much the same as they were before the refurbishment. But I'm not sure if people living in the railway cottages are connected with the school or not?

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Tue May 03, 2005 9:56 pm

King Edward Close is the road I was thinking about - remember going there to Mr Hackets house with his daughter!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Thu May 05, 2005 1:06 pm

King Edward's Close is still there...

Those new houses at the back of Lamb are eyesores really - they have no garden or garage (which is what the staff wanted) and who wants to be sandwhiched bwtween a boarding house and the CDT school...

As the masterplan has been halted, htese may be the only two ever built...

ben ashton · Post by **ben ashton** » Thu May 05, 2005 1:16 pm

they cant seriously be complaining about parking on a site that size?!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Thu May 05, 2005 1:19 pm

I think they just wanted something like a shed/garage so they can put their kid's bikes etc in, like most people have on the site...

ben ashton · Post by **ben ashton** » Thu May 05, 2005 1:25 pm

"You could literally have one person living separate lives on each floor without even noticing each other."
and they cant fit a bike or two inside? i lived in a 2 bed council flat on the second floor for 12 years with 3 bikes kept inside, its easy

kaaa · Post by **kaaa** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:54 am

good to see where the money goes

Sergiu Panaite · Post by **Sergiu Panaite** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:57 pm

Great Plum wrote:I think they just wanted something like a shed/garage so they can put their kid's bikes etc in, like most people have on the site...

As far as I remember (I might be wrong), they do have a courtyard in the middle of the house which they could use if gated etc. Might be wrong though.