Near the end of June 2011, Contractors moved in to demolish Calder Street Secondary School. The Intermediate school which opened in 1912, was just 1 year short of its Centenary, though news of its imminent demolition and a wrongly written account (by others) of it opening in 1910, led to the school actually celebrating a […]
Here’s a brand new, (old) photo of the kids at Calder Street School taken in either 1948 or 1949. The photo is courtesy of Marion Brownlie (nee Cameron) who is in the photo on the left of the 2nd top row. These kids have SUCH character, so i’ve zoomed in on them to see if […]
Andy Lynch shared this “Certificate of Merit”, which belonged to his mother, Ellen Frew. The certificate is dated 1941/42 and was given as an award at Calder Street Junior Secondary School. Things like this interest me immensely, like being able to know those awards were given out on the last day of term to […]
Every now and again, a great little piece of memorabilia turns up. Like this card from August 1912, an invite for William Haig and his wife to attend the opening of Calder Street School. The invite went out from Blantyre School Board for William Allan Haig and partner to attend the opening of the […]
Between 1978 and 1983, Strathclyde Council were to spend £60m on a schools improvement programme. This included improving some of Blantyre’s schools. Due to overcrowding and large class sizes, much of this took the form of expansion or extensions being added. A drastic solution in 1978 was to turn the former Calder Street School […]
Mr George Bradford – Born in 1925 in Muirkirk, George was a popular secondary school English teacher from the mid to late 20th Century. He initially taught at Gallowflat School in Rutherglen in the mid 1950’s. By the 1960’s, he was still living in Rutherglen and travelling to Blantyre for work, he was known locally […]
In November 2015, I was kindly invited to take a photo of the old Calder Street School Bell, which is now in the reception hall of the new Auchinraith Primary School. On a day off, I should have taken a few more moments to read what was on the bell. The manufacturer name “and Co….Founders” […]