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Allan Glen's School Club. There had been an Allan Glen Association that had held periodic meetings attended by former pupils and members of school staff from 1894 to 1922, but it was not until 1923 that the Old Boys’ Club was formally constituted.
Allan Glen's School Club. City of Glasgow College . College gives FPs a final look round. We were deluighted when the City of Glasgow College invited former pupils to have a final look round the Allan Glen Campus before its demolition to make way for the new College campus.
Allan Glen's School had a long and proud histoy of playing rugby, with playing fields at Bishpbriggs. Although the school was latterly under the control of Glasgow City Council and its predecessors, the playing fields were never actually owned by them, and on closure of the school the School Club became owners of the ground, now known as the Bearyards.
The exterior of Allan Glen's School c 1876, when Charles Rennie Mackintosh was one of the pupils. The building was demolished in 1970. Allan Glen was a wright who became a wealthy property owner and who left £20,000 in his will in 1850 to make "provision for giving gratuitously a good practical education to about fifty boys, sons of tradesmen or persons in the industrial classes in Glasgow."
Allan Glen's was merged with City Public School to become the local comprehensive school for the area. Although the merged school was called Allan Glen's Secondary School, in the view of the headmaster, RA Finlayson, and the Club, the nature of the new school was so different from that founded by Allan Glen that the school ended on 22nd August 1973.
The school building has an alternative community use as the Phoenix Centre, for complimentary therapies (2010). Some original features, such as timber partitions and tiled walls are extant in the interior, alongside later work from the 1960s and 1970s when the building served as an annexe for Allan Glen's School.
It was an important feeder school for Anderson's University, and a significant number of pupils won scholarships to Cambridge University and Imperial College, London. In 1887 Allan Glen's became part of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College and in 1912 the school was transferred to the control of the School Board of Glasgow.
