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Schools like Abbotsford (1879), Washington Street (1890) and Martyrs (1897) were all built by the School Board of Glasgow, the largest in Scotland. The Board was created by the Education (Scotland) Act 1872 which celebrates its 150th anniversary next year. The Act made education compulsory for all children aged between five and thirteen years old.

The rapid programme of school building undertaken across Glasgow by the School Boards (1873–1919) left the city with a rich legacy of architecture designed by the top architects of the day. This was in contrast to most other UK cities whose Board schools were designed by a single, directly employed architect.

Glasgow School Board preferred engaging private architects, rather than employing their own like other school boards, leading to some striking designs such as Mackintosh’s iconic Scotland Street School and Martyrs Public School. (However, it should be noted that Mackintosh did have some minor disputes with the school board over their strict ...

TheGlasgowStory tells the story of Glasgow in words and pictures, told by some of Scotland's best writers, and illustrated with thousands of images from the collections of the city's world-famous libraries, museums and universities. ... The Glasgow School Board reduced the number, but improved the quality and size of schools. Its remaining ...

The School Board of Glasgow, 1873-1919 by James M. Roxburgh, 1971, University of London Press edition, in English

Children were usually educated at the school closest to their home address. Glasgow City Archives we have a map on which we have plotted the location of the Glasgow schools. This lets you determine the closest two or three schools to the person's home address, after which you can check the records of that school for any relevant entries.

The School board of Glasgow, 1873-1919. book. Person as author. Roxburgh, James M. Series title and vol / issues. Publications of the Scottish Council for Research in Education, 63; Collation. ... Educational history. Geographic topic. UK. Geographic place. Glasgow (UK) Scotland (UK) Media type. Paper . Call Number (Doc. Centers) uil 379.2 Ro ...

Glasgow school experience - 1873-1918. Garnetbank Public School, 1916, classroom scene. If you grew up in Glasgow, the odds are good that you received some of your education in a school board building. A new temporary exhibition at Glasgow City Archives draws on archival and museum collections to tell to story of the school boards, the teachers ...

Govan Parish School Board was the third largest school board in Scotland. When it formed in 1873, it was responsible for educating more than 11,000 children. Like Glasgow, Govan initiated an extensive school building programme. By 1896, there were 22 Board schools including the largest, Fairfield School, which could accommodate almost 1800 pupils.

[44] GCA, DED1/1/1–9, Minutes of the Glasgow School Board; MLGR, School Board of Glasgow General Summary of Work 1873–1903. [45] See also Bain, ‘The Beginnings of Democratic Control’, p. 22, where he records that in West Lothian, one of three women returned declined the opportunity of becoming chairman for the term. ... Grace Paterson's ...

The School Board of Glasgow 1873-1919. James F. Roxburgh. British Journal of Educational Studies 20 (2):233-233 (1972)

The rapid programme of school building undertaken across Glasgow by the School Boards (1873–1919) left the city with a rich legacy of architecture designed by the top architects of the day. This was in contrast to most other UK cities whose Board schools were designed by a single, directly employed architect. Most analysis of the Glasgow Boards’ output has tended to focus on individual ...

To keep up with the massively increased demand for schooling, the School Board of Glasgow built 75 schools from 1874 to 1916. The 19th-century education act also transferred the ownership and management of the schools from church to state. Of the 75 schools built in this period, less than a dozen remain as schools in the city - with the rest ...

TheGlasgowStory tells the story of Glasgow in words and pictures, told by some of Scotland's best writers, and illustrated with thousands of images from the collections of the city's world-famous libraries, museums and universities. ... In this period a clearer pattern of school provision emerged. In 1918 the city's five School Boards were ...

An additional sigh School came under the Board’s authority in 1911, when Allan Glen’s was transferred on condition that it would be of equal status with the Boys’ High. The number of Higher Class Schools was increased to seven shortly after the amalgamation of the Maryhill and Springburn Boards with Glasgow in 1911, which brought in North ...

It was an important feeder school for Anderson's University, and a significant number of pupils won scholarships to Cambridge University and Imperial College, London. In 1887 Allan Glen's became part of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College and in 1912 the school was transferred to the control of the School Board of Glasgow.

It was the first school to come under the authority of the Glasgow School Board, established under the Education Scotland Act of 1872, which introduced compulsory education. When Glasgow Town Council handed over what was then Glasgow High to the new authority, there were serious problems, mainly that the ‘premises were considered far from ...

In 1827, Glasgow made a contribution to school education for which the city became world famous. David Stow opened the Glasgow Model School that combined teacher training and a day school in the one institution. Stow's influence has carried on into the 21st century and his name is remembered in Stow College and the David Stow Building in the ...

Not since the Victorian and Edwardian days of the School Board of Glasgow had such a significant investment in the city’s schools been undertaken. Between 1945 and 1960, the Corporation spent £17,500,000 to provide 63 full primary schools, 14 full secondary schools and 76 small units of four or six classrooms.