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Thorn Pop packs SRS 6ft Here are a couple of the Thorn pop packs in what was my Form room at my secondary school. These buildings were built in 1972. The classrooms were all lit by either 6ft SRS or 8ft SS with prismatic diffusers. Most are still in service today!

Thorn Pop packs SRS 6ft

Here are a couple of the Thorn pop packs in what was my Form room at my secondary school. These buildings were built in 1972. The classrooms were all lit by either 6ft SRS or 8ft SS with prismatic diffusers. Most are still in service today!

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XmasLightGuy   [27 Sep, 2015 at 11:00 PM]
Cool that they are still in use!
lampy   [27 Sep, 2015 at 11:01 PM]
just missed the grey sided atlas pop packs by the looks of it
Danny   [27 Sep, 2015 at 11:13 PM]
Lo the old blackboards it was always good to whack the board rubber off the table creating a cloud of dust. Ha
RobTDCI   [27 Sep, 2015 at 11:31 PM]
another block did have grey siders. That's gone now, was a temporary buildng that was only designed to last 10 years but ended up lasting 40 years.
Liam   [28 Sep, 2015 at 04:32 PM]
Same lighting as my school had, i kind of miss looking at all the 70's SRS PP's now Sad
RobTDCI   [28 Sep, 2015 at 07:24 PM]
These lights were not heavily used as the room was on the corner of the building with windows along two walls, on the 2nd floor and so had plenty of daylight. Would think the tubes would have lasted decades!
Kev   [28 Sep, 2015 at 08:45 PM]
Probably rob! Hardly used but will probably find some domestic house bashing sparky go in there one day and tell the school they will save millions of pounds in electric if they change these old lights that are hardly ever used to LED! And the school will believe them! Rolling Eyes
AngryHorse   [28 Sep, 2015 at 09:01 PM]
I think our school has 6 foot SRS too?
pat_96   [28 Sep, 2015 at 09:41 PM]
Good to hear they're still in service Cool
lampy   [28 Sep, 2015 at 11:05 PM]
i recall my secondary school had tempory classroom blocks made of plywood with flat roof etc, they were only ment to last a few years and they were up 30 years lol, they were rotting in the end
RobTDCI   [28 Sep, 2015 at 11:43 PM]
The grey sided pop packs were used in a prefab building called a ROSLA unit (raising of the school leaving age) when the leaving was raised in the early 70s and extra classroom space was required. They were used throughout the country, built from wooden sections that bolted together and designed to be temporary (up to 10 years max) but often ended up being used for decades.
Kev   [28 Sep, 2015 at 11:59 PM]
Ha ha ha no way I didn't know that's what ROSLA stood for! I've seen that written in schools before on DBs etc! Learn something new everyday! None of the secondary's I look after have Eliot huts anymore however in RRS there is an old photo of the school before the early 70s blocks were built and there were 2 Elliot's!

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