Pencil and watercolour on paper, c.1957
RCAHMS: Buchanan Campbell Collection presented in 1995
In the late1950s families moved out of Glasgow’s slum tenements to new estates such as Easterhouse in the city’s east end, or planned towns like Cumbernauld. New housing offered tenants hot water and their own toilets, things we now take for granted. Conceived as a township of 7,200 houses for around 25,000 people, building of houses and flats started in 1954.
Buchanan Campbell’s primary school in the Queenslie part of Easterhouse was one of the first to be built in the area, constructed 1957-59. It is a typical school of the period with its flat roof and tall boiler house chimney. The architect’s drawing shows the Queenslie factories in the distance and ongoing house construction.
The school closed in 1997 and was demolished in 1998.