The Leas School,  Hoylake

In today's world of mass-produced non-recyclable trivia, we can be grateful for the long-lasting equipment made for us at The Leas by Harry Smith.

Almost every location around the school contained some of Harry's solid product: gym lockers for cricket-bats, cricket-pads and hockey-sticks - also used as off-floor sanctuary in vigorous games of tag; dormitory lockers for sponge-bags etc, with a hook for a dressing-gown; form-room waste paper bins, occasionally doubling as targets for indoor golf; changing-room pigeon-holes for hairbrush and comb; passageway pigeon-holes for caps; wooden wickets for cricket, spoofles, relay markers, and even battlements; hurdle stands to hold light bamboo crossbars; almost everywhere you look you can see Harry's influence. None of these objects was a masterpiece of style, but all of them lasted for years, for decades.

Harry also taught carpentry in his shop, originally the school's only classrom, which had been wheeled into place beside the barn shortly after the school moved into its new building in 1901.

Harry spent the whole of his working life at the school, receiving a suitable tribute in the 1965 January magazine when he retired.