Join Kenneth Baxter from the University of Dundee Archive Services to celebrate the centenary of the opening of the Scrymgeour Building and learn a little about the history of the School of Education.
Lecturers and students at the newly opened Teacher Training College, c 1921
Proposed new Training College 1914
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Trip back in time: 100 years since the opening of Dundee Training College
You can watch a short video on the topic on Archive Services YouTube channel
Fascinating stuff, Kenneth! Who was the Duchess of Athol, though, and why did she open the building? Also, have we any idea which bit of the building Robert W-W and his team occupied? Also, again, as you may know, there was a big fight before Law got into the Scrym, as the Deputy Principal of the day (can’t remember his name) wanted to put the Rep in there. I wrote a piece about it in Contact.
Keep it up!
Thanks Robin! The Duchess of Atholl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Stewart-Murray,_Duchess_of_Atholl was on Perthshire Education Authority which is why she opened the building. Unfortunately we don’t know where the RWW was based. (Caroline and Kenneth)
I would be interested to know if there is any information about the use of the Training College as a Red Cross Hospital during the Great War as it appears not to have been near completion during that conflict.
Hello Derek, thank you for your message. The publication ‘Dundee Training College 1906-1956’ says that in ‘its unfinished state’ during the Great War it had been used as both a Red Cross Hospital and recruiting centre and was not vacated until 1919, but does not really elaborate on this. Newspapers would suggest that the Hospital opened on 29 October 1918 to take 44 wounded servicemen who had arrived via ambulance train at Dundee West Station that morning.
I hope that is helpful.
Caroline
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