ABSTRACT
After the Women’s Information Centre was reduced to a pile of boxes in a dirty room there was a general rallying round to re-establish the Centre as quickly as possible in the Annex so that the proposed programme of activities for the autumn could take place. The people concerned were responsive to the crisis and those in the school were helpful. Ann’s contemporary account read:
We set to building the Centre up again, volunteers spent hours cleaning the rooms, putting up posters, putting down carpets etc. It took enormous effort from everyone to set the Centre up again. By September 21st the Centre had set itself up as before, the telephone had been installed and we had spent limited funds on changing our address on all the stationery and leaflets. A new publicity programme had been set in motion and leaflets had been printed. [The head of community work and the school administrator] had helped all they could to provide all that was needed. We were told that we had to remain in these rooms until our new premises on the other side of the building had been renovated. As agreed a new wall was to be built and we were told that this had been given priority, and would be the first part of the building to be completed.
