More nostalgia today as we go inside the former Calder Street School. Built in 1912, demolished in 2011, the school situated on Calder Street, directly opposite the Police Station, lasted 98 years. Teaching generations of local children, the classrooms were large and open, something by design to accommodate 1910’s classes of 60 children each! These […]
These photos will bring back lot of memories for many Blantyre folk. This is of course the former Calder Street School. Pictured in 2010, just before demolition, there were some items saved from the school when it was demolished. The old school bell itself now sits in the reception area of the new Auchinraith Primary […]
As P7 pupils this week said goodbye to primary school, many pupils are looking to transition to the “big school” in August. Blantyre man Stephen Welby still has his old blazers from 1970s High Blantyre Primary School and 80’s Blantyre High School! Complete with their sewn on logos and his various collected badges! Anybody else […]
“Temporary” school huts. St Joseph’s, Livvies, Blantyre High…..any other schools? I use the term “Temporary” very loosely…….what’s your memories of spillover, modular classroom “huts”? On social media, the following comments were provided by readers: Margaret Stewart Calder st high school had these huts in the 60/70s. They were situated across from the school, where the […]
The monthly meeting on Tuesday 14th March 1899 by the Blantyre School Board proved an important meeting for local Schools. The meeting was held in the Board room of Low Blantyre School with Dr Grant presiding. A number of matters discussed such as : Physical Education – the board resumed their previous discussion about whether […]
Today’s School photo travels back in time some 111 years ago to 1912. In the year which the Titanic sank, just 2 years before WW1, these boys were pictured in the gym hall of the Calder Street school along with their teachers. At this time the School sat alone on Calder Street, directly opposite a […]
Alan Scullion shared this wonderfully, clear photo of Stonefield Parish School, dating from around 1909. Affectionately more commonly known as Ness’s School. Alan told me, “I have some of my elderly aunts old photos, her family were between Burnbank and Blantyre. “ “These feature some old school pictures of her dad William McClelland (1900-1971) he was […]