Love this next wee story! Blantyre Project reader Duncan Slater (85), was recently returning from a family reunion in Rugeley, England and on the way home met up with a childhood pal. A Blantyre School pal he hadn’t seen…… for 71 years! Duncan is pictured on the left after meeting up with John Gillespie (also […]
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 […]
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 […]
Two photos next from the same School play. The advanced pupils of the Calder Street School put on a concert inviting parents to come along and be entertained, all in aid of raising funds for the School. The play was held in the Co-operative Hall at Herbertson Street, Blantyre and more is known about these […]
On the afternoon of Tuesday 28th September 1909, a special meeting of the Blantyre School Board was held to discuss the growing shortage of places for pupils in Blantyre Schools. In particular, the meeting was to discuss the proposal of new schools. The meeting took place in the Parish Council Chambers in High Blantyre on […]
Summer 1967 brought about a change where all pupils in Blantyre would go on to Calder Street Secondary School instead of Hamilton Academy or St Johns. The change was a big one for many families and Mr Thomas Moffat, the headmaster in the Blantyre school had some tough talking for parents who were already moaning […]