ABSTRACT
The demand of the labour movement for universal secondary education was blunted by the appearance of senior elementary schools: in 1921 the Labour Party protested to the Board of Education that these schools were an impediment to a proper system of secondary education. Despite persistent economic problems, the inter-war years saw a major reorganization of elementary education. The new prospect in education, a pamphlet issued by the Board in 1928, typified the rather ambiguous response which was made to these pressures. The director of education for Wiltshire wrote in 1936: Ideally, every school building should be a skin, or shell, that will change and grow as the living organism within it changes and grows. Separate nursery schools were at the mercy of the national economy. The county architect, W. T. Curtis, set out to devise a school building which would cost 30 per cent less than the currently fashionable pavilion designs.
