Glen Tana Schools

NEW SCHOOLS AT GLEN TANA - A HANDSOME GIFT BY SIR WILLIAM CUNLIFFE BROOKS, - Sir William Brooks, Bart., with his usual liberality, is now erecting schools for Glen Tana, and the chief corner stone of the building is to be laid at noon to-day by Lady Brooks, when an interesting ceremony and service will take place. There will be a schoolroom for 60 children, and a class room for 30, with gallery for 15, making in all 105. These two rooms will be divided by glass doors, so as to be thrown into one big room when necessary. There will be the boys' room also, and the girls' cloakroom, with, of course, two separate entrances, and a big open shed with offices at end of each divided off playground. The master's house (which is also part of Sir William's donation) is entered by an internal porch, and will contain sitting room, study, kitchen, pantry, three bedrooms, also a bathroom, with lavatory, hot and cold water. The works will all be carried out, as all Sir William Brooks's buildings are, in the very best way. The architect is Mr George Truefitt, of a Worthing, who has done so much work at Glen Tana (and also at Aboyne Castle). The views we give of the schools are from his pen and ink sketches, which show a building of picturesque and quaintly-charming design. There will be plenty of light and ventilation, and lavatory and other accommodation has been amply provided. The roof will be covered with Broseley tiles. [Aberdeen Journal 31 October 1896 page 5]

THE NEW SCHOOL AT GLEN TANA - On Friday afternoon Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, the popular baronet of Glen Tana, opened a new school which, with a school-house and about 1.25 acres of playground, he has presented to the School Board. It is three years since the School Board decided that an effort should be made to improve and extend the Parish School, and when the resolution was announced, Sir William, with characteristic generosity, came forward with an offer to provide entirely new building, on the condition that the existing one should handed over to him in exchange. Needless to say, the munificent proposal was at once accepted the board, and after the necessary preliminaries had been arranged the construction of the new school was commenced some two years ago on a site about 800 yards distant from the building which it was to supersede. Mr George T. Truefitt, F.R.LB.A., London, was architect, and Mr Charles Ewan, clerk of works on the estate of Glen Tana, supervised the building operations, which have been carried out wholly Sir William’s workmen. [Aberdeen Journal 5 January 1898 page 3]

Reference    Aberdeen Journal 31 October 1896 page 5
Reference    Aberdeen Journal 5 January 1898 page 3