Springburn Virtual Museum

Community life

Hyde Park schoolchildren in class, 1920

The first Hyde Park school opened with 117 pupils in an iron building in 1908. However, the roll was increasing so quickly with the children of railway workers that a hall had to hired to accommodate them.

A new building, designed by architects Thomas, Dykes and Dale, was opened by Lord Provost Archibald McInnes Shaw in September 1910. The roll of 695 pupils soon rose to 900.

However, with school rolls falling generally, Hyde Park, with only 67 pupils, closed as a school in 1983 and was taken over by Adult and Community Education. Before entering its new premises at the old reading room of the public library in 1986, Springburn Museum operated from one of Hyde Park's old classrooms.

Source: Glasgow City Archives