View of Union Street School, Rothesay, Bute, from SW

Description View of Union Street School, Rothesay, Bute, from SW

Date 21/5/2012

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number DP 135326

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Rothesay was an industrial town and commercial port long before its expansion due to tourism. The earliest industries set up to take advantage of the water supply from the Water of Fad, and in 1779, Scotland's second cotton mill was established in Rothesay by James Kenyon. A number of small mills were established, basing themselves around Barone Road, Russell Street and Mill Street. The focus for the town's industry remains in this vicinity today. The Bute Ragged Industrial School was established c.1864 at the northern end of Union Street to educate and give industrial training to 120 children from all over Bute. During the late 19th century, a new school was established on Colbeck Lane, to the south of this, and in 1907, this building was erected as a new infant school. Single-storeyed, it has many large windows to let as much natural light into the building as possible, an important factor at the time the school was built. As Rothesay's education provision became more streamlined, the older buildings fell out of use, and this building is now used as offices for the local authority, with a playgroup in the neighbouring building (right, out of shot).

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