The Pioneers statue celebrates the canal builders who founded Ellesmere Port and was cast in bronze by Liverpool artist Stephen Broadbent.
Address: Cambridge Road, Ellesmere Port
Architect: Deacon & Horsburgh
Date: 1909
Local List ref: LL6
Description
Deacon and Horsburgh (Liverpool Architects) designed Cambridge Road School in 1907 for Cheshire County Council.
Cambridge Road School was built in 1909 at a cost of £10,000 and was the first of its kind in Ellesmere Port. Until this time schools had been administered by religious organisations. It was the latest in modern design with large playgrounds and was co-educational apart from woodwork classes for boys and laundry and housewifery for girls.
The building is a handsome symmetrical building crowned by a cupola. The school is faced with brick and render with a Welsh slate roof. It has a shallow roof with overhanging eaves and dentil courses punctuated by shaped and plain dormers.
There is also an adjacent separate block which was used for the teaching of domestic science to girls.
Deacon and Horsburgh also designed the recently listed John Street School, which was built in 1911-12.
Sources
John Street List Description, DCMS
Looking back at Ellesmere Port, Pat O'Brian
Ellesmere Port The Making of an Industrial Town, Aspinal PJ & Hudson DM
Condition
Good.
Current Use
Now in use as housing.
Updated May 2007
