Here’s an interesting story. David Humm was born in 1847 to David Humm Sir, a farm servant and Sarah Seabrook. As an adult advancing through the ranks and being a former Military minister, sometime after 1875, Mr David Humm found himself in the role of the High Blantyre School Board Officer. Now, during early 1895, […]
On Friday 11th June 1897 a special meeting of the Blantyre School Board was held in Low Blantyre School to resolve a particular problem once and for all…..the problem being that one of their teachers was being excessively cruel to pupils. The members of the Board present were Messrs. Walker, Davidson, Oliphant, Small and Kelly. […]
The first meeting of the newly elected School Board in Blantyre took place on the evening of Tuesday 19th March 1900 following the result the previous week of the triennial election. The first task at hand was to appoint a chairperson. Mr Neil Douglas was quick to nominate Dr. William Grant, who had been […]
In 1900, the School Board also had to get to grips immediately with the reclassification of elementary schools now to be divided into 3 parts – infants (embracing all scholars up to the age of 7), junior division (comprising from Standard I to Standard III) and the senior division (comprising Standard IV to VI). […]
On Sunday 19th November 1944, in the midst of WW2, Blantyre School Board were sent out to test the draught in a Schoolhouse in East Kilbride. Having enjoyed quality schools in the area for some time, the Board were to assess the temperature of the Jackton schoolhouse and conditions. This followed a complaint from Patrick […]