In January 1892, the Hamilton Herald newspaper told of improvements made at Stonefield School (Ness’s on the corner of Victoria Street and Glasgow Road)
“Considerable improvements have just been made at Stonefield School, whereby the comforts of the children have been greatly increased. The cooking room which adjoins the infant department has been divided by a handsome three-leaved sliding partition, thereby doing away with the noise of the one apartment interfering with the work in the other. In another class-room, where a single gas pendant was the only light, four double brackets have been fixed on the side walls, which, when lighted, give a cheery aspect to the surroundings that were hitherto somewhat dismal.
A glass roofing over a small corridor in a rear class-room now counteracts a heavy draught which previously annoyed many of the teachers and children. An other very important improvement is the erection of two clothes-stands, close to the main entrance, where 36 additional hooks have been fixed, giving what was much wanted, an opportunity of hanging children’s coats on a wet day.
The ventilation of the school has also been much improved by the hinging of several windows, and these very thoughtful expenditures, along with the additions about to be made to the school, should make Stonefield equipped as it is with a most competent headmaster and staff, one of the best schools in the county. The addition proposed will be entirely detached from the main building, the site fixed being to the east of the present playground.”
Stonefield School is pictured a couple of decades later complete with those additions.
What year did it close? Wonder if my dad went there. Born in 1912