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Article: Memento created from wood salvaged at closing school
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- July 3, 2009
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OLD school desks and chairs have been crafted into a memento to
mark a school's [pounds]16.4m relocation later this year.
Staff and students at Eastbourne Church of England Academy, when
they relocate, will take with them a cross made from timbers once
used in furniture at the school, which is in The Fairway.
The school will move to an adjoining site in September.
To commemorate the occasion, the school's design and technology
department created the cross from wood salvaged from discarded
school benches, desks and chairs, items which would have ended up in
a skip.
Tim Baitson, of the department, decided to use the recycled
material when he was asked to produce a standing cross for use
during ...