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GLASGOW ROAD, BLANTYRE. c.1904.

Glasgow Road, Blantyre. c.1904.

Glasgow Road looking East, the white cottage on the left later becoming the "Gazette" office.

The Etching depicts the arrival of the Pupils from The School at Blantyre Works to their new school, Stonefield Primary School, affectionately known locally as Ness's, after Major John Ness, the Head Master.

Under the regime of Mr Ness it continued to flourish, and at its closing there were 180 scholars in attendance. He told the story of the last day he spent in the school after sixteen happy years. “On that morning,” he said, “the scholars assembled in the schoolroom when, as always was my custom, I opened the lessons with a prayer and, paradoxical as it may appear, we afterwards sang “Auld Lang Syne.” There was nothing wrong with that he said, and it was quite in order. He then headed the procession of scholars who marched in processional order to the new school at Stonefield and were present at the opening ceremony, which was conducted by the school Board.

See Also: Major John Ness

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