Townhead School and Oswald School, Kirkintilloch
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TitleTownhead School and Oswald School, Kirkintilloch
ReferenceSC1
Date1851-1980s
Archive creatorTownhead School
Scope and ContentLog books and minute book 1853-1974; admission registers 1884-1981; attendance and payment summaries 1856-1866; records relating to schoolchildren 1856-1910s; staff and financial records 1854-1880; HMI reports and grant forms 1854-1868; correspondence 1851-1864; miscellaneous 1853-1854; photographs 1980s.
The SC1/2/2 Admission Register appears to have been in use by Oswald School and then reused by Townhead School when the pupils transferred there in 1890.
The SC1/2/2 Admission Register appears to have been in use by Oswald School and then reused by Townhead School when the pupils transferred there in 1890.
Extent0.2m
LanguageEnglish
Persons keywordTownhead Public School; Kirkintilloch; 1854-1971, Townhead Primary School, Townhead School, Oswald and Kirk Session Schools
SubjectSchools, Kirkintilloch
Level of descriptionfonds
Admin history/BiographyIn 1853 members of the Kirk Session found a majority of school age children in the parish were not attending school due to their parents, many of whom were poor weavers, being unable to pay for education. The members resolved to erect by subscriptions a school with a view to educating as many as possible of the children of poor tradesmen and labourers at the lowest fees.
Along with the subscriptions the members resolved to apply to the trustees of the late Miss Oswald, who had left a sum of money in her will to provide for the education of three local children approved by the Minister and Kirk Session of St. David's, for a grant from these funds for such purposes and that the school should be called The Oswald and Kirk Session School. An application to Her Majesty's Council on Education for a grant in aid was also made. The Reverend George Little, minister of the parish, was able to report by September 1854 the plans and draft disposition of the site for the school, which was opened in November of that year.£60 per year in subscriptions collected by Reverend Little were required to keep the school going, while Kirk Session funds helped to meet deficits.
The Education (Scotland) Act 1872 relieved the managers of responsibility, which was handed over to the School Board with the Kirk Session reserving rights nemine contradicente (without a dissenting vote). in spite of improvements, Oswald School was condemned by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, and in 1890 pupils transferred to the new up to date school in Townhead.
Along with the subscriptions the members resolved to apply to the trustees of the late Miss Oswald, who had left a sum of money in her will to provide for the education of three local children approved by the Minister and Kirk Session of St. David's, for a grant from these funds for such purposes and that the school should be called The Oswald and Kirk Session School. An application to Her Majesty's Council on Education for a grant in aid was also made. The Reverend George Little, minister of the parish, was able to report by September 1854 the plans and draft disposition of the site for the school, which was opened in November of that year.£60 per year in subscriptions collected by Reverend Little were required to keep the school going, while Kirk Session funds helped to meet deficits.
The Education (Scotland) Act 1872 relieved the managers of responsibility, which was handed over to the School Board with the Kirk Session reserving rights nemine contradicente (without a dissenting vote). in spite of improvements, Oswald School was condemned by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, and in 1890 pupils transferred to the new up to date school in Townhead.
Repository nameEast Dunbartonshire Archives - Kirkintilloch