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Latitude: 56.4738 / 56°28'25"N
Longitude: -3.0097 / 3°0'35"W
OS Eastings: 337894
OS Northings: 731751
OS Grid: NO378317
Mapcode National: GBR Z5G.QH
Mapcode Global: WH7R9.QJZZ
Plus Code: 9C8RFXFR+G4
Entry Name: Half-Timer's School, Bright Street, Lochee, Dundee
Listing Name: Bright Street Boys Brigade Hall, Former Camperdown Works Half-Timer's School
Listing Date: 18 May 1987
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361064
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24946
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, Lochee, Bright Street, Half-timer's School
ID on this website: 200361064
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Lochee
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: School building
Probably James MacLaren dated 1884. Single-storey
cruicform plan school, coursed rubble with ashlar
dressings on a rubble base. 3-bay S-gable, central
bipartite with arched keyblocked fanlight flanked
by blocked hood-moulded windows. Corbelled skewputts
skews with kneelers. Ball finial to gable missing, 2-
bay wings. N elevation similar with flat-roofed
porch having moulded chamfered segmental-headed
door in re-entrant angles for separate boys' and
girls' entrances. E gable 3 hood-moulded windows,
corbelled skewputts and elaborate stack at apex of
gable. W gable similar but with segmental arched hood
mould over central window below scrolled circular
panel dated 1884.
The half-time system, by which children aged 10-14 (over
11 after 1891 and over 12 after 1891) spent alternate
days or half a working day at school and worked half
time as shifters in mills, was more persistent in
Dundee than elsewhere in Scotland, dying out only in
the 1900s. Most schools were in the attics of older
mills and only a few firms provided purpose-built
buildings.
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