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b 0^'^ sl))I__HISTORY-ONICS January 2006, VOL. 23, NO. 3 The Newsletter of the West Vancouver Historical Society . INGLEWOOD AT EIGHTY A . A few years ago tentative plans were drawn up to mark the 75“’ anniversary of the opening of Inglewood School. With a committee formed and plans well underway, the building was torn down pubing all plans for the celebration asunder. Now it appears as though some would like to mark its 80’“ anniversary two years from now. If you happen to be one of the ancients that attended this fine academy and would like to participate in a reunion please send us an email at tt2@telus.net. Please don’t express interest in this venture unless you are prepared to do a little work on it. A possible starting point would be to assign a graduating year to a person or group of that year. That committee would then set out to contact as many members of that group possible. Grad reps would meet from time to time to organize the event and arrange to keep invites informed of their responsibilities. The job would be enormous. How much can you remember of Inglewood now? From Inglewood Avenue it loomed large, but it really wasn’t a big school. Entering the boys’ access door on the west side, and mounting the stairs. Rooms 11 (Mr. Kershaw) and 12 (Mr. Kirk) were on the first floor. Room 13 (Miss Jones, Miss Kermode) was the next right, just past the main entry hall. At the far east end of the corridor were rooms 15 (Miss Wilson) and 16 (Miss Brealey). On the top floor, just above rooms 15 and 16, were rooms 25 and 26, occupied by Mrs. Griffin and Mr. Mitchell, respectively. Moving west along the top floor were rooms 23 and 24, both Science rooms; at the end of the floor were rooms 21 and 22 (Science and Maths). There you have it; the main school, which contained twelve rooms. Attached to the main school was the gymnasium. In about 1938 the annex was added (the same year Mr. Inkster came to the school) to the northwest of the school, and which was joined to the gym. It contained one large room (at one point the library) and two smaller ones. Later in the evolution of Inglewood were added two more annexes, one to the west of the school, the second to the east. (Both sections still exist, and are part of the Inglewood Annex.) Most of us were sad when the school was torn down. We thought it should have been left as a heritage building. Wisdom prevailed: the place was destroyed, and should have been. It had long been ridden with rot and inadequate insulation. Nonetheless, wonderful memories of the building persist, which is as it should be. It was a memorable place. (T.T.)