British Preparatory Schools: Facilities--Multi-purpose Gymnasiums
Figure 1.--The children use gymsas play areas during the winter months. This school had a gym used for a range of activities. Notice the piano in the background.
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Older prep schools tended to convert a large room in the old homes that became prep schools into a gymnasium. The rooms tended to have limited gym facilities and old creeky wooden floors. There were limitations on just what althetics activities could be conducted in these gyms. They were used as multi-purpose roooms for assemblies, dance, lectures, music, theater, and oither activities, depending on the size of the school and other available facilities. Thus therecwas often items in these older gyms like pianos that had had noting to do with gymnastics and athletics. And can get in the way of athletic and sports activities. These older gyms were beng replaced by schools with the financial ability to do so. But some schools were limited both by space and finance.
