I hope you’re enjoying my stories of Blantyre in the 1890’s. Here’s another wee snippet. No more than 5 years had passed since its construction, when in 1897 it was noticed that there was already dry rot appearing in the new Infant School in Low Blantyre. At a monthly meeting of Blantyre School Board in […]
Stonefield Parish Infant School ‘Stonefield Parish Infant School’ being a bit of mouthful, the toddlers school in Low Blantyre was nicknamed by locals as “The Wee School.” It is incorrectly written in publications by others that the infant school was immediately behind Stonefield Parish School, but this wasn’t the case. The former infant school […]