{"id":67,"date":"2022-12-05T14:17:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/quarrybraeprimary\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2023-09-28T10:37:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T09:37:06","slug":"our-school-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/quarrybraeprimary\/about-our-school\/our-school-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our School History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a very rich history in the Parkhead community.<\/p>\n<p>The original Quarry Brae school building was opened officially on the 9th of September 1904.\u00a0 It was originally located at 139 Baird Street, which later was renamed to Crail Street.\u00a0 The school building was designed by architects McWhannell and Rogerson.\u00a0 In 1903, a temporary school building was opened, which later closed in June 1904.<\/p>\n<p>The original school building was demolished in 2010 as part of a regeneration project.\u00a0 The new Quarry Brae Primary School is located at 61 Crail Street, just north of the old building&#8217;s location.<\/p>\n<p>To read about the history of the school from opening to the 1950s, check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/parkheadhistory.com\/?page_id=3050\">Parkhead History<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n<p>More information, and a few photographs, see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglasgowstory.com\/advanced-search\/?search=99&amp;what=Quarrybrae+Primary+School\">The Glasgow Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-326\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/quarrybraeprimary\/uploads\/sites\/11783\/2023\/09\/27182901\/school-bell-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The old Quarry Brae School Bell (this is displayed in our school office)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-324\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/quarrybraeprimary\/uploads\/sites\/11783\/2023\/09\/27182858\/qb-duck-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-325\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/quarrybraeprimary\/uploads\/sites\/11783\/2023\/09\/27182900\/qb-duck-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Quarry Brae Duck &#8211; statue can be seen a the Pharonhill Street Gate &amp; The glass work is displayed in Mrs Adam&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a very rich history in the Parkhead community. The original Quarry Brae school building was opened officially on the 9th of September 1904.\u00a0 It was originally located at 139 Baird Street, which later was renamed to Crail Street.\u00a0 The school building was designed by architects McWhannell and Rogerson.\u00a0 In 1903, a temporary school &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/quarrybraeprimary\/about-our-school\/our-school-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our School History<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6577,"featured_media":0,"parent":49,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/quarrybraeprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/quarrybraeprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/quarrybraeprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/quarrybraeprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/quarrybraeprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/quarrybraeprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/quarrybraeprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/333"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/quarrybraeprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/quarrybraeprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}