During restoration work at the University of Central Lancashire’s (UCLan) Harris building, a handwritten note dated 2 April 1896 was found.
During restoration work at the University of Central Lancashire’s Harris building, a handwritten note dated 2 April 1896 was found.
It was once the team had stripped back the existing structure that the historic note was found. Signed by James Pierce and Joseph Gregson, along with the date, the note included a very British observation about the weather, stating it was on ‘a cold, frosty morning’ that the two local men tucked it away, likely never imagined it would be unearthed many decades later.
The Harris building officially opened in 1897 – the same year as Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee – and was originally known as the Victoria Jubilee Technical School. It housed spinning rooms, a weaving shed, and a lecture theatre for 250 students. It’s undergone many changes since, with major extensions between 1929-32 adding new classrooms, laboratories and a gym.
The whole structure was then stripped back to timber, undercoated and repainted, and new lead work was added where required before the roof was cleaned and the scaffold removed. The vent is now back to looking as it would have done when James Pierce and Joseph Gregson first worked on it all those years ago.
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