Description: Official opening of the school was 8 October 1929.
Dignatories from back left, H Tatham Sudbury (in glasses and bow tie), F>R>I>B>A> Architect; unknown lady in hat; G W Woolliscroft (on back step); standing on middle step, T Frost, Director of Education; Rev. Harry Price; Councillor William Lacey, Mayor; E I E Williams, Town Clerk; William Thomas, Macebearer (surrounded by children);left, on edge of group, Seymour, Ilkeston Advertiser; unknown man stood in front of the architect; Alderman Joseph Wooley; V J Brown, Headmaster; Miss Beatrice King.