SECTION VI: SCHOOL GROUPS
EASTBANK ACADEMY
109) Infant girls' class - 1896.
110) Mixed class - about 1906.
111) Eastbank Academy: School Staff - 1913.
Rear Row — left to right Mr Gilmour, Miss McKenzie, Mr Brownlie, Miss Locke, Mr Symon, Mr McKenzie, Miss Cossar, Mr Stewart, Miss Laycock, Mr Gemmell
Third Row — left to right Miss Turner, Miss Smith, Miss McGill, Miss McPherson, Miss Meidrum, Miss Forbes, Miss Cameron, Mr Allan, Mrs Gibson, Mrs Findlay, Miss Mowat
Second Row — left to right Miss Dunbar, Miss Rankin, Miss Hogarth, Mr Kerr, Miss Murdoch, Miss Clark, Miss Guthrie, Miss Budge, Mr McCrae, Miss Rowat, Miss Gillispie
First Row — left to right Miss Galbraith, Miss Stafford, Mrs Dempster, Miss Colquhoun, Mr Reid, Miss Hogg, Miss Howieson, Miss Gilmour, Miss Howieson
N.B.
Mr Gemmell served in the school from 1911 to 1932.
Miss Colquhoun from 1875 to 1894 in old Eastmuir School and from 1894 to 1918 in the Academy.
Miss Hogarth served in the school from 1911 to 1947
112) Miss Hogg with Primary School Class - about 1930.
113) Mixed Class - about 1936.
114) School Prefects — 1939.
Rear row: R. Smith, C. Hanley, N Marshall, G. Nelson, E. Woods, M. Boyd, J. Taylor, N Macpherso, H. Scott, A. Dunn, D. Black.
Front row: M. Cochrane, M. Ramsay, M Paton (Vice-Captain), J. Fleming (ViceCaptain), M. Brown (Girl Captain), H. Smith(Boy Captain), K. McLeish, A. Scott, Mr Farquarson,
Headmaster.
C. Hanley in the rear row being the now well-known writer and broadcaster Clifford Hanley.
115) School Prefects — Session 1951—1952.
Rear row L—R: T. Dobie, S. Ingram, J. Waddell, J. Blair, W. Chalmers, A. Fyfe, I. Thom, J. Thorburn.
Mid row L—R: M. Bell, E. Reid, L. Paul, S. John stone, M Dalrymple, I. Wilson, C. Brady, S. Smith.
Front row L—R: D. Grant, E. Hamilton (Vice-Captain), F. Beaton (Captain), Mr Stothers, E. Dunbar (Captain), I. Jackson (ViceCaptain), M Hart.
I. Jackson is now the plastic surgeon, and M. Dalrymple his wife, of "Boy David" fame and the subject of a recent B.B.C. documentary.
116) Eastbank Academy: Eastmuir Primary School Mixed Class - 1911.
117) Eastbank Academy: Primary School Football Team. Winners of Senior Challenge Shield - 1917. League Champions - 1918.
SHETTLESTON PUBLIC SCHOOL, SHETTLESTON ROAD
118) Boys' Class - about 1920.
The Old Statistical Account records the existence of a parish school in Shettleston in 1790. Shettleston Parish Church Session transferred the parish school to the Shettleston School Board in 1873, who built a new school for 250 pupils on the same site in 1875.
Although its official title was Shettleston Public School, it has over several generations been referred to by local residents as “McHaffie ‘s School” after James McHaffie who was headmaster from 1874 until the outbreak of The Great War.
