This 2010 Aerial photo was taken by Brian Young’s son on a training flight. I wanted to feature the photo here as it shows something quite unusual. The Auchinraith new and old Primary Schools side by side to each other, just before the demolition started of the old Calder Street School! The new Primary school was […]
The Scottish Reformation resulted in major changes to the organisation and nature of education, with the loss of choir schools and the expansion of parish schools, along with the reform and expansion of the Universities. In the seventeenth century, legislation enforced the creation and funding of schools in every parish, often overseen by presbyteries of […]
Of the two 19th Century schools in School Lane, the one nearer the Kirkton Cross itself was called “The Temperance Hall School”. It looked out upon a field between it and the Main Street, with Croftfoot to the North. It is marked on 1859 maps. Existing since 1853 (as confirmed in Hamilton Advertiser 21st November […]
Some more interesting information obtained from the Triennial Review 1961 – 1963 book. If only to record these facts in Blantyre’s history, the little county council book, states that: In relation to Schools a) In 1961, Phase 3 of St Joseph’s School was completed at a cost of £185,000. The book states this was a […]
Mid August will see the delivery of Blantyre Project History archives for all of my 2014 posts, photos and articles to the libraries of our local Primary Schools! (High Blantyre Primary, David Livingstone, Auchinraith, St Blanes and St Josephs). This is done partially at my own cost, but also by minor grant funding. It offers each […]
Thanks to Robert Stewart for providing another excellent school photo, taken in 1929 at High Blantyre Primary School, Hunthill Road. Incredibly, the names of the children are also attached.
This transcribe of Elizabeth Whitelaws (nee Stirling) story is continued from Part 1.…. “At Easter, we had hard boiled eggs which our mother made a different colour in some way known to her. We went to quite a steep hill in a paddock and rolled our eggs to the bottom of the hill. This actually […]