Lucy, Countess Baldwin of Bewdley was an advocate of improved maternity care and particularly making anaesthetics available to women of low income to reduce the pain of childbirth. Part of the new buildings she was to open at Stamford High School included the current hall. Previously what is now the dining hall had fulfilled both functions.
“LADY BALDWIN TO VISIT STAMFORD
TO OPEN HIGH SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Lady Baldwin, wife of Earl Baldwin, probably one of the most popular Prime Ministers the country has had, has consented to perform the opening ceremony in connection with the new buildings at Stamford High School, now rapidly nearing completion.
The ceremony takes place on Saturday, 2, April.
The new buildings include three class-rooms, an art room, chemistry and biology laboratories, a school hall, complete with gallery which will seat 300. cloak rooms, headmistress’s flat etc.
The stone-laying ceremony was performed by the Marchioness of Exeter on Thursday, 29 April, 1937.”
The Stamford Mercury, 4th February, 1938.