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Aberdare Boys’ Grammar SchoolOfficial School Photos |
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Commercial Class circa 1936
from Bob Jones
The Commercial courses offered by the school were Bookkeeping and Shorthand. A substantial
number of boys followed these courses to School Certificate level. The
subject was taught by R.V. Hoggins (not in this photograph) who produced
excellent results for his classes. The intermediate schools were required
to offer some subjects of a vocational nature, and Commerce was
the area of work chosen at Aberdare Boys’. Initially schools such as ours were named Technical and Intermediate Schools, however as far as Technical subjects were concerned although the predominant local industry was Mining, it was not offered as a subject to the boys, but was available at the school in the programme of evening classes for adults. The Biology
Lab was originally constructed as the Mining Laboratory opening in 1922, with the conversion to Biology in the late 1940s.