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The Valley School, Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Historic Building Assessment |
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Albion Archaeology unpublished report series
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Vincent and Gorbing are gathering baseline information on several schools involved in the Hertfordshire Building Schools for the Future programme. Under the BSF plans The Valley School will give up its existing campus and move to a new purpose-built site co-located with the Marriots School in its expanded grounds. The Valley School was built between 1966 and 1968 part of the large-scale post-war school building programme that had led to the development of pioneering techniques of prefabricated construction, in which Hertfordshire County Council had played a leading role. An inspection of the school and an examination of the original architectural plans has shown that the school has not changed considerably over time. In terms of external form, function and layout of the buildings it is still very much as it was designed 50 years ago. Internally, apart from the necessary upgrades and modernisations of school furniture and equipment many of the original fixtures and fittings have remained in place. The school is a good, but standard, example of the 2'8 |
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C Meckseper
H Cooper-Reade
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Albion Archaeology
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Year of Publication: |
2009
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Stevenage, unparished area |
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Stevenage |
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England |
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Hertfordshire |
Grid Reference: 524778, 222929 (Easting, Northing)
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albionar1-63126 |
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2009.33 |
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11 Jul 2023 |