Ruins of the Part Time School
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Ruins of the Part Time School
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 14 Sep 2017
The view is from Maxwellton Street. See Image for some details from the top. The Part Time or Half Time School was so called because the children divided their time equally between their schooling here and their work in the adjacent (but now long gone) Ferguslie Thread Mills. See https://canmore.org.uk/site/79687/paisley-ferguslie-thread-works-part-time-school at Canmore for further details. As noted there, local industrialist Peter Coats officially opened the school in 1887; the link provides much more information.
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Image Location
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