The former Whiteinch Public School building on Victoria Park Drive South in Glasgow. It was constructed in 1915.

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Classical style extension of the former Albany Academy in the Woodlands area of Glasgow. The original school was built in a Renaissance villa style in the 1870s, while this plainer extension was added in 1902. It later became part of Woodside Public School and is now offices.

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The former Whiteinch Public School in Glasgow. Built in 1915, in the bottom right of this photo, you can see the fence which divided what was once the girls half of the school (in the forefround) from the boys half (in the distance). This segregation included separate entrances, playgrounds, classes and subjects, and was a requirement of the funding of public schools under the Education Act of 1872.

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Janitor's Lodge House on Eldon Street in Glasgow. Built in 1882, this was part of the Jacobean style Woodside Public School by Robert Dalglish. Both the lodge and the school were surrounded by the ornate, and rather lethal-looking, spiked railing visible in foreground.

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The former Batson Street school on Calder Street in Govanhill. Built in 1874, it's one of the few Jacobean Revival style school buildings in Glasgow.

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Love this Glasgow Style font on Andrew Balfour's Edwardian Baroque Holmlea Public School on the Southside of Glasgow.

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The Edwardian Baroque Holmlea Public School on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed by Andrew Balfour and built in 1908, it was closed in 2005. A listed building, it remained empty until 2018, and in this time it deteriorated so badly it was added to the Buildings At Risk Register.

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The Caduceus of the Roman god Mercury on Andrew Balfour's 1908 Holmlea Public School on the Southside of Glasgow. I'm guessing this was chosen because Mercury was, amongst other things, the god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence, travellers, communication, and merchants. However, he was also the god of trickery and thieves, which doesn't seem quite so appropriate for a school!

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Love the proportions of the side facade of this former school building in the Partick area of Glasgow. Built in 1890, it started life as the Saint Peter's Boys School. It's now residential flats.

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