St Vincent's School, Tollcross, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
In 1911, the deaf and blind inmates of the Smyllum Orphanage at Lanark were transferred to the newly erected St Vincent's School, at 4 Easterhill Street, Tollcross, near Glasgow. Like its predecessor, the new institution was run by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul.
The School site is shown on the 1934 map below.
In 1925, the School came under the Glasgow Education Board, and was was extended with money from the Daughters of Charity. Glasgow Education Authority further extended the school in 1965 to meet the needs of Catholic deaf and blind children in Glasgow and surrounding areas. When the Sisters withdrew from this service in 1985, the residential block was demolished as the school became a day school only.
A hostel for blind women was also located at the site
Records
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- Daughters Of Charity Of St Vincent De Paul, Provincial House, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1RE. (Archivist: Sister Bernadette Ryder DC)
Bibliography
- Higginbotham, Peter Children's Homes: A History of Institutional Care for Britain's Young (2017, Pen & Sword)
- Pritchard, D.G., Education and the Handicapped 1760-1960 (1963, Routledge & Kegan Paul)
- Wagg, Henry J A Chronological Survey of Work for the Blind (1932, Pitman)
- Higginbotham, Peter Children's Homes: A History of Institutional Care for Britain's Young (2017, Pen & Sword)
- Pritchard, D.G., Education and the Handicapped 1760-1960 (1963, Routledge & Kegan Paul)
- Watson, J, Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb (1809)
- Watson, Thomas J., A History of Deaf Education in Scotland 1760-1939 (Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1949)
- O'Brien, Susan Leaving God for God: The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul in Britain 1847–2017 (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2017)
- Prunty and Sullivan (eds.) The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul in Ireland: The Early Years (Columba Press, 2014)
Links
- British Deaf History Society
- Deaf History Scotland
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