Queen's Park Secondary School was a secondary school in
Glasgow
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Battlefield
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Glasgow Victoria Infirmary
The Victoria infirmary was a teaching hospital situated at Langside/Battlefield in the south-east of Glasgow from 1880 until 2015. It was managed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
History
A competition was held to design a 120-bedded hospital an ...
hospital. Extensions were added in 1902 and 1912 (the latter intended as the first section to entirely replace the older buildings, but the project went uncompleted due to
World War I
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). In its early decades Queen's Park School also educated young children of primary school age, before later being defined as a
Senior Secondary
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school only, its Junior equivalent being the buildings a few blocks away on Carmichael Place, which have survived into the 21st century as Battlefield Primary School.
In 1967, a new campus was constructed over a mile away to the east in the
Toryglen
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area to serve as the local
comprehensive school
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for the South East of the city.
In 1989,
Strathclyde Regional Council
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Rutherglen
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– which at that time was within the boundaries of Glasgow – to leave their existing buildings (split over two separate sites) and move into the Queen's Park Secondary buildings at Toryglen, while the Queen's Park pupils would be relocated to Adelphi Secondary School in the
Gorbals
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district. However, this plan never became reality, and within a few years a replacement for Stonelaw was under construction in Rutherglen, the Adelphi buildings had been converted to other commercial uses and Queen's Park was marked to be closed; it had already suffered from falling enrollment for some years due to its location on the periphery of its catchment area and persistent rumours concerning the likely closure, and eventually this occurred in 1994. Most feeder primary schools were realigned to
Shawlands Academy
Shawlands Academy is a state secondary school in the Shawlands area of Glasgow, Scotland.
Admissions
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. After several years as a derelict plot, a housing development was built on the site, while its adjacent playing fields still have a recreational function as part of the Toryglen Regional Football Centre.
The Grange Road buildings were utilised as a filming location for ''The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'' in 1968, and the premises became a Teachers' Resource Centre before suffering from an
arson
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attack in the 1990s and being demolished in 2006. The site is now occupied by the New Victoria Hospital (or more precisely one of its car parks), the only surviving feature being the exterior fence and its stone gate posts.
Sport
The school's
rugby union
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Cartha Queens Park RFC
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which still plays today.
In football, the school still holds the national record for the number of ''Boys Under 16 Shield'' victories with six (their closest challengers being local rivals Holyrood Secondary School), although these wins were all achieved prior to
World War II
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Gladiators
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Winnie Ewing
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Born and raised in Glasgow, Ewing studied law at the University of Glasgow, where she joine ...
, politician
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Monty Finniston
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Life
He was born at 26 Aikenhead Road in Govanhill, Glasgow the son of Robert Finniston. His family were of Russian Jewish ori ...
, industrialist
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Tom Honeyman
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Born near Queen's Park, Glasgow, the son of a life insurance man ...
, museum curator
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
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Stan Laurel
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(1890–1965), comic actor, writer, and film director
* John Maclean (1879-1923), political activist (
Red Clydeside
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Ally MacLeod
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, football player and manager
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Ian McCaskill
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Early life
McCaskill attended Queen's Par ...
(1938–2016), meteorologist
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Robert Smyth McColl
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Playing career
McColl started his career with junior club Benmore in 1892 and moved to Queen's Park in 1894. He represented ...
, international footballer and businessman ( RS McColl)
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Anna Neagle
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Manny Shinwell
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George Wallace
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, businessman and life peer
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Isaac Wolfson
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, businessman
* Helen Fraser, feminist, educationalist and politicianHelen Fraser Spartacus Educational
References
External links
The Case for Stonelaw 1989 video on proposals to move Stonelaw pupils to Queen's Park and Queen's Park pupils to Adelphi (
Gorbals
The Gorbals is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, and former burgh, on the south bank of the River Clyde. By the late 19th century, it had become densely populated; rural migrants and immigrants were attracted by the new industries and e ...