Think the showers were behind the four windows on the right - or the windows might have been part of the rear of the Tuck shop which was around the other side along with the entrance to the changing rooms. Can't remember what was behind the door you can see - perhaps a store for balls? I do remember coming a cropper on those steps - the studs on my boots made me slip and I came crashing down right on my backside/base of spine. A tad painful shall we say .....
It was known as the pavillion. The 6th form 'bogs' as they were known are behind the little windows. The tuck shop was away on the other side and a small room where all the summer sports gear was stored right at the far end. Javellins, cricket gear shot putts etc. Ah!! The distant smells of horse linament and dubbin.
In my time it was as tt13 and cw describe. In my first year or two the groundsman, Jack Barnes IIRC who lived in Trewellard, used to sell small bottles of pop at break time from behind the door at the top of the steps. I think it was also the store for rugby balls and other sports kit which we could borrow at breaks. After Jack retired the pop ceased.
The tuck shop was on the hidden side of the pavillion in a small lock-up room on the inside of the angle visible in the picture. I volunteered in there for a while. Can only remember for certain that it sold many varieties of 'penny arrows', (wrapped strips of toffee), I think the other items included rolos, fruit pastilles and fruit gums etc. but have no clear recollection.
I think there was another 'wing' angled at the other end. The changing rooms were through the doors in the middle of the central section. I recall them as being cold and smelly and the showers haphazard; very much the 'B' option when compared with the changing rooms in the gym.
Ah yes, Autumn and Winter time where games would only be stopped if the rain came down in buckets. Cold, covered in mud and then in for a shower which was more often or not cold, that changing room freezing - guess it was all part of the process of changing us from boys to men!!!
Jack's little enterprise run from the top of those steps was known as the 'Pop-shop' but in my day the tuck shop was based in the shool hall by the piano. Yes the little windows were for toilets but behind them and accessed from the pavilion changing room, was a large communal bath, not showers (the showers were beneath the gym). This was filled with hot water in the winter and used for washing mud off naked bodies - I was a little too stand-offish to share a bath with a bunch of naked boys and chose to remain dirty. I do remember in that pavilion though, Steve Holland showing off the deep angry red weals on his behind That T Craske-Rising had inflicted with 6 if the best - he didn't hold back...
Steve was a troubled soul who used to eat slugs and spiders for attention and was rumoured to have died of exposure in a ditch while trying to make his way back to Penwith after his father took him away to another part of the country. That was after losing an eye when he lost control of his bicycle down the hill at Sennen, where he lived.
