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). […]
The monthly meeting of the Blantyre School Board took place on Tuesday 6th February 1900. Until the Cemetery Road Parish Chambers were built a couple of years later, these type of meetings were held in the Public School in High Blantyre at Hunthill Road. During 1900, Dr Grant was the chairman of the Board […]
Feelings ran high in Blantyre during Summer 1934 about the level of unemployment. This came to a head when on 29th June 1934, seventeen people were charged and found guilty with inciting a riot in High Blantyre after besieging the offices of the Blantyre Council. This occurred after the council decided not to let a […]
What an interesting subject this is! The Scotsman on 24th October 1877, reported that “A preliminary meeting was held in the afternoon in the vestry of the Established Church, Blantyre, for the purpose of taking steps to raise a national fund on behalf of the sufferers by the High Blantyre Pit explosion. Provost J.C Forrest […]