Glasgow and Scotland Street School Museum
Sunday morning is Sunday morning.....slow and laid back. We worked on the blog entries and played iwth Joey. We took Chase for a walk. We read and relaxed some more until Joey woke up from her nap.
After nap time we set out another adventure. We walked down a differnt hill to a Costa Coffee and had lunch....sandwiches, desserts and a great mocha. Then we walked on to Kelvinbridge Subway station and took the station to Shields Road. We came up long escalators and crossed the street to the Schoolhouse Museum.
The Scotland Street School Museum was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh a famous architect from Glasgow. His buildings and and designs remind one a lot of Frank Lloyd Wright....modern with clean lines. The school was designed and built between 1903 and 1906. He had to include separate playgrounds, outside toilets, entrances and staircases for girls, boys, and infants. He had to have a cookery room in his design. The classrooms had to be stepped and allow for a maximum of 66 students per room.
The school served a growing population employed by the shipyards and engineering works in and around the River Clyde. The school educated generations of children from Glasgow's southside for seventy three years. It closed in 1979.
The city of Glasgow has reopened the school as a museum showing a history of the school and of education. The main entrance shows the drill hall, has a tearoom, exhibition gallery and AV room. The first floor, our second floor, has an exhibition of photography, a room showing the development and design of the school. Another room gives an overview of not only the schools history but Glasgow history as well. In this room they had recordings from former pupils and teachers. The third floor shows a classroom from Victorian days, a WW II classroom, and a 50's and 60's classroom. The cookery room room ( aka Home Ec .... Family Consumer Science) was set up as students would have found it in the beginning. There was a bed for learning to make beds properly. There was a section for learning to do laundry, complete with an old mangle. The whole museum is really interesting. It showed not only how much things had changed, but how little education has changed.
After the museum we took the subway back to the flat and waited for Ian and Sara to call on Skype. It was wonderful to see all five of them: Ian, Sara, Aiden, Gavin and Steve...the cat. The only one who didn't seem pleased with the call was Steve. I'm not sure that he cared....sort of the if you can't pet me or feed me,....stay out of my way. The boys dealt really well with the abstractness of talking over the computer.
We did dinner. We walked Chase while Pete and Jess put Joey through her nightly routine which ends up in bed.
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Papa & Joey just after nap
Scotland Street School
Scotland Stree School
Scottish flowers
Boys cloakroom -- rubber collars, vests, and ties
Scotland Street School
50's classroom
WW II classroom
Victorian classroo 
The Laundry Corner
The cooking corner
Scotland Street School
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