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East Kilbride East Kilbride (; ), sometimes referred to as EK, is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland, and the country's sixth-largest locality by population. Historically a small village, it was designated Scotland's first "new town" on 6 Ma ...

from 1963 to 2007. The school started as a four-year Secondary school and was extended in 1966 prior to amalgamation with the old East Kilbride Village school to form a full six-year Comprehensive. In 2008, it merged with Claremont High School to form the new Calderglen High School.

History

Hunter High School takes its name from the anatomist and physician William Hunter (1718 – 1783) and his younger brother, the surgeon

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(1728 – 1793) who were both born nearby at Long Calderwood.

Architecture

The building was designed by the Lanarkshire County architect, David Gordon Bannerman (1908-1986), and was officially opened on 16 December 1963 by John Gordon, the first-ever

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of East Kilbride. It was the first secondary school in Lanarkshire built with specific provisions for courses leading to the "O" grade certificate. At the opening ceremony, Provost Gordon praised the architects and builders for the fine job they had done and expressed that in his opinion the new building was already out of date because he felt that ''"...in the era of sputniks and moon rockets, while the school had many wonderful features, it could have been equipped with the modern closed circuit television equipment, to enable the streamlining of teaching."'' By 1968, the school building had been extended to accommodate the improved Higher Learning Certificate syllabus.

Closure

Hunter High was one of four former East Kilbride school sites sold to

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, who had purchased the land from

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in 2007 as part of the local authority’s schools’ modernisation programme. Due to economic uncertainty, the abandoned building fell into an advanced state of dereliction and was later demolished in September 2009. The site was later redeveloped by Barratt along with

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under the marketing title "Gamekeepers Wynd".

Alumni

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References

{{authority control Defunct secondary schools in South Lanarkshire Educational institutions established in 1963 Educational institutions disestablished in 2007 1963 establishments in Scotland Buildings and structures in East Kilbride 2007 disestablishments in Scotland Buildings and structures demolished in 2009 School buildings completed in 1963