<<< Back to Schools Rev Stevenson during the 1700s left us all a marvelous account of education in Blantyre during 1785. He wrote in the Statistical account for that year, “There is only one school in the Parish. The schoolmaster’s salary is about £6, but he has neither house nor garden belonging to the office. […]
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School for Mill Workers
Kirkton (later known as High Blantyre) was firstly a rural community. It was through the Industrial Revolution in the 1770’s that ‘Low Blantyre’ was developed with its close proximity to the river Clyde. In 1785 everything in Blantyre changed when David Dale erected the first cotton spinning mill on the banks of the Clyde. The […]