The Annexe

Norwood Boys Junior Technical School was based in The Annexe on the Osmond Terrace site. In 1942 Mr C. Rooney was appointed headmaster of the Class III Junior Technical School which occupied 4 classrooms, 1 improvised science room, 1 art room and 2 workshops. There was an enrolment of 190 and a staff of 10.
It was apparent even at that stage that a larger site was needed for the rapidly growing school. After a great deal of negotiations by the headmaster and School Council, in 1944 the Education Department bought 20 acres of the Scarfe Estate, on Kensington Road at Marryatville as a new site for the school.
The girls' school continued at the Osmond Terrace site until 1963 when it moved into the old Norwood Boys High site at Lossie Street. Eventually the two Technical schools were reunited in 1976 when Marryatville High School was formed.

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