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Washington Street Old School Exploration
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A beautiful building from 1890
that is situated in Anderston, Glasgow, Scotland.
Abandoned and unnoticed by the majority as it lays unoccupied, situated within the hustle and bustle of Glasgow's City Centre, underneath the Kingston Bridge M8 Motorway...
I remember studying Art here in the late 1990s and it was a sight to behold when I stepped inside for the first time which has left a big impression on me, the brightly lit Victorian interior was quite frightening as an 8 year old who was used to a more 1970s School environment - in the 1990s.
My Great Grans School in the 1920s also which makes this a special Exploration for me.
History 👇
The building is situated at 12 Washington Street, Anderston, Glasgow, Scotland and is of a Category C Listed Status.
Built in 1890 as a Public School for infants and children until the 1970s in which it was converted to an Arts Centre - many people started out here in their craft including the actor Robert Carlyle.
The building avoided demolition in the 1960s during the construction of the Motorway and Kingston Bridge despite the fact that many other buildings were demolished in and around the chosen construction path of the City Regeneration Projects which included the construction of the Motorway and the demolition of a magnitude of old buildings from Tenements to Church grounds with cemeteries and even a beloved Theater - There is nothing to determine why this building did not receive the same treatment as most of Old Anderston during that time period and still today...
There is an interesting Wall in the basement which looks to be from another structure or building - pre construction of the School.
Building Description -
Henry E Clifford, 1889-1890. 3-storey and part basement, rectangular plan School Board school with Gibbsian details and retaining original glazing. Red bull-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings, 1st floor cill course (as band to principal elevation), partial cill course to 2nd floor, wallhead lintel band and stone bracketed eaves.
E (WASHINGTON STREET) ELEVATION: 9-bay elevation (bays grouped 2-5-2) with roll-moulded arrises and keystones to ground floor windows, roll-moulded and architraved windows with banding, keystone and cornice at 1st floor, over cill band inscribed 'Washington Street - School Board of Glasgow - Public School'. Stone porch in bay to left of centre bay group with pedimented stone-mullioned bipartite window and lintel inscribed 'Infants'. Regular fenestration in remaining bays.
N AND S ELEVATIONS: side elevations with tall, advanced pedimented doorways in bays to penultimate E, recessed doors under multi-pane fanlights and keystone breaking into pediment over lintels inscribed 'Boys' and 'Girls' respectively. Bipartite stair windows above, near-regular fenestration in 4 bays to W and bay to E, with expanse of blank wallplane to outer E.
W (CLYDE STREET) ELEVATION: 8-bay elevation with near-regular fenestration, blank bays to outer left at ground and 1st floor. Basement with play-shelter of 3 square-headed openings to right, door and 3 windows to left.
Glazing patterns tiered by floor, timber sash and case windows: ground floor with 4-pane glazing, 1st floor with stylised glazing to upper sash, 2nd floor with 3-pane upper sash. Grey slate roof to piended roof with curtailed leaded 'Munn's' ventilators as ridge finials at head of piends, and to centre ridge. Stone wallhead stack.
INTERIOR: well-detailed decorative scheme in place; tripartite arrangement running E-W. Former infants school classrooms to E front, further classrooms to W front, entrances and staircases to centre of N and S entrance elevations, central galleried toplit hall with keystoned round arches to 2nd floor gallery, pilasters to 1st floor,
decorative iron railings to well and shield ends to supporting metal joists. Sections of boarded dado and occasional keystoned archway.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, STEPS AND RAILINGS: coped red sandstone dwarf walls to school perimeter with original iron railings and square section sandstone gatepiers, those to main pedestrian gates with domed caps. Stone steps to changing levels of falling ground by W elevation, with railings.
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@lynseymorgan5821 Месяц назад

It used to be used as a community art centre. I had guitar and drama lessons there every Saturday in the early to mid 80s. It was such a vibrant place, so sad to see that it’s been left to decay.

@Urban-Expeditions Месяц назад

With your speaking up and this video then it may get a new lease of life and renovated it with its authentic Victorian features still in place.

@e-bikerbulgaria Месяц назад

Was Washington Street Arts Centre, then Glasgow Arts Centre, later renamed to Strathclyde Arts Centre. Many great memories late eighties and very early nineties.

@bloodreport146 Месяц назад

l worked at the bottom of Washington Street for 18 years and often wondered what the inside of the school looked like. An excellent video

@shedhead00 Месяц назад

Great video, the old blackboard brought back memories,we had that type at our school. That floor looked well dodgy at times.

@birdy-numnum6321 Месяц назад

15.29 ❤ Nailed! 😊

@EdExploresScotland Месяц назад

I like the way you put these videos together. Very enjoyable. I hadn't realised the building was in such a state. I thought it was occupied, although judging by that one lone chair perhaps it is. It probably won't last long. Just another neglected old Glasgow building.

@Urban-Expeditions Месяц назад

Thanks Ed, that's really made my day as I've watched your videos since around 2020. I did attempt to present it in a way that is true to how I see this area of Anderston with the Motorway - where I grew up. Your Anderston video is fantastic and well put together. This brings to mind something I've been investigating for a few months and everyone I ask about it is stumped, like myself though I feel its significant whereas others may not - it is in relation to a School that was in Anderston in the early 1800s, on Carrick Street and McAlpine Street. The School had in large letters The New British System of Education and I cannot find anything in regards to its existence. Briefly mentioned in the old book' Quiet Old Glasgow The Latter Days Before The Railways, the author who us unnamed details Old Glasgow and mentions this School. It isn't featured on old maps, I'm very interested in this School and it's history as lots of people would immigrate from all over and end up in Anderston and conveniently there was a huge British Schooling building. There was also a Street at this time that ran through Anderston called College Street, just at Carrick Street actually, where my ancestral family come from. Any Intel would be massively appreciated as everyone I ask seem to not want to talk about it as its such a contrast to what we know - University of Glasgow, High School of Glasgow, Saint Mungos Academy... very different to The New British System of Education. Thanks again for your comment, glad to share these grand old buildings that should be saved for future generations ✔️🔎

@EdExploresScotland Месяц назад

@@Urban-Expeditions - I've had a look at the source you mention, and I can see why it's got your interest. It's certainly got me wondering. The book dates to 1893, and the work would appear to be the author's memories of long ago. Given that he would appear to also be the author of another work looking at the year 1820, it may be the case that the author is very old, and looking way back into his past. Memory can at times play tricks on us. That said, the account of the school is very detailed. In his account, he is walking east from Bishop Street, along Anderston Walk, now Argyle Street. From his description, the large academy and playgrounds between Carrick Street and McAlpine Street seem to have been at the Argyle Street end. He says they occupied the whole space between those two streets. As you say, it doesn't seem to be on any maps; nothing on McArthur's 1778 map; Fleming's 1807 map shows some buildings, most with external stairs, but nothing that stands out as a very large academy with playgrounds. The first detailed OS map of 1857 shows the plot or area completely built on. I am wondering what that large building is in the back court of all the buildings, close to Argyle Street. Could that be the school, still there after they'd built all the buildings around it? That building is still there in the next Goad Fire Insurance Plan, but clearly not a school at that stage. It remains in place in the 1892 OS map. It's certainly a curious one. The book itself is seriously interesting. I've never seen it before. Take care.

@Urban-Expeditions Месяц назад

@@EdExploresScotland Definitely a head scratcher! And a contrast to most people's understanding of Schooling History - it even states on the House of Parliament website the history of schools in Britain which gives contrasting accounts to this Academy, it says schools were very rare pre-Victorian times and were only done out of good will such as religious organisations... so what's this "New" British System of Education... my family are from this area with the Carrick Street tenement home being demolished in 1970 after my family was moved on up to the modern Anderston. We may have come from the lowlands to partake in whatever was happening in Glasgow at the time but conveniently the boats would berge up at Anderston, Broomielaw areas. I read somewhere that there was trickery at play with the name Washington Street and apparently named that to trick the new immigrants of Glasgow who had hopes and plans of reaching the USA, the captain and crew would say that's you here look over there its Washington Street! ... made up of hard working yet gullible Scots from all over the country and of course Irish and Ulster Scots. It is strange to me that there was this big Academy here that is now occupied by another important British building the Ministry of Defence building... As the author is telling of before the Railways then all human traffic was on the River Clyde, there was also a Street named College St that ran through Carrick Street at this time - the author didn't state a year on the page about the school but the previous page he is in the 1840s I believe, at Cranstonhill Waterworks. It's a strange one yet I'd love to know more. Thanks for your input, its great for me to have communication on this matter as I've spoken to a couple of people about it and one of them us somewhat of an expert of Anderston but they seemed stumped and sort of put off by this information. It's too contrasting to what we think we know... If anything I'm glad that you now have the book to indulge in, I enjoy telling people of this book as it has given me lots of joy. Take care m8 and I will as always be safe in my Expeditions 🔎

@ArcAudios77 Месяц назад

Well put together, good watch of the old School. Regards

@Urban-Expeditions Месяц назад

Much appreciated 🙏🏻

@ArcAudios77 Месяц назад

@@Urban-Expeditions No bother Sir, thanks.

@birdy-numnum6321 Месяц назад

🎉 whole documentation Nailed actually

@Urban-Expeditions Месяц назад

Thank you, much appreciated 🙏🏻😊

@birdy-numnum6321 Месяц назад

No, Thankyou- for your great efforts! 🎈 I'm just an idle viewer! 😉

@STARRUNNER45 Месяц назад

🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍✌🏼🤍

@TheGrowler55 Месяц назад

If there not going to use it, then GCC should turn it into flats for the homeless, just saying from Glasgow 🇬🇧😎

@Urban-Expeditions Месяц назад

I wouldn't mind living in there buddy, based on the interior but not the surrounding streets which are very busy - Argyle Street, North Street etc - Motorway and so on. Location was ruined for housing in the 1960s with the construction and development after lots of demolition - when my family ancestral Tenement was demolished in 1970 in Old Anderston. I spoke to a workman who said it's privately owned and not by GCC and will potentially be reopened as a Studio facility, fitting with the current situation with the Pentagon Centre which is commercialised for lots of different things now. Not going to be community oriented like before, unfortunately. Beautiful Glasgow building none the least and should be saved and admired for future generations and public use, interest.