Robert Stewart recently sent in this photo to me, adding, “Here is my mum’s school photo taken at Calder Street c1930. My mother was born in 1918, I’d say that the children look about 12. My mother is sitting in the centre of the second front row. Her maiden name was Elizabeth McLachlan.” What a […]
Promotion of pupils and a call for going to the “big” school. (Calder Street). Headmaster Davie Crawford asks my mum Janet Duncan to report to Calder Street Secondary School in February 1960. It would appear this is a final certificate to show readiness to go on to Secondary school, something that happens automatically today. Anybody […]