(Central School or Foundry Technical Institute)
Due to overcrowding at St Francis School in Silver Row the infant department was housed in the Meeks Road School (formerly the Central School) from around 1930.
In 1932 a new school for Catholics was built in the former playground of the Meeks Road School to the south of the old building which in 1922 had become the Foundry Technical Institute. Rather confusingly the new school was known by several names. The Education Authority referred to it as the Meek’s Road School, the Catholic Church as the infant department of St Francis’ School and for a very brief spell in the early 1950s it became St Andrew’s RC School. During the building work, the pupils were temporarily transferred to the Falkirk Technical School.
The new building was aligned west/east. The classrooms were in the central main block with a 5-window bay on either side of an advanced central 3-window bay with a corniced pediment. Smaller piended wings at either end probably served as cloakrooms. The building cost just under £4,000.
St Andrew’s Infant School continued as such until St Andrew’s RC Primary School was erected in 1973 off Forbes Road, opposite to Callendar Park. The old buildings were then demolished.
Sites and Monuments Record
| Meeks Road | SMR 1835 | NS 8875 8035 |
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