North Kelvinside Senior Secondary School

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30 years of Office Coffee and still going strong.

We’ve learned of the sad passing of a Former Pupil.

‘It is with sadness that I inform you of the passing of one of our beautiful pupils Karen Innes (nee McCartney).

If anyone who knows Karen wishes to attend her funeral , the details are below.

Sincerest condolences to her husband Danny and her children and family’

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Girls' P.E. class at North Kelvinside Public School, taken around 1916 from our Glasgow Corporation education collection.

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Another find in a pile of papers

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Last one

And this

Found this

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Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves...

A new exhibition at Maryhill Burgh Halls focuses on the life and times of local Suffragette, Jessie Stephen MBE.

Born in London in 1893, the eldest of the eleven children of tailor Alexander Stephen and his wife Jane Miller, the family moved to Edinburgh, then Dunfermline, before settling in Maryhill in 1901.

Educated at North Kelvinside School, Jessie won a scholarship to train as a pupil-teacher. Sadly, family circumstances meant that she could not afford to pursue her aspiration to become a teacher, and she became a domestic servant at the age of 15.

Already actively politically, young Jessie soon joined the Women's Social and Political Union, unionised her fellow maids, and began to fight for the vote for women.

Stephen was the youngest member of the WSPU Glasgow delegation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George in 1912, and, she took part in the first of the "Scottish Outrages", involving attacks on pillar boxes, in Glasgow in February 1913. Her job as a maid worked in her favour during these attacks, as she explained in a 1975 interview:

"I was able to drop acid into the postal pillar boxes without being suspected, because I walked down from where I was employed in my cap, muslin apron and black frock... nobody would ever suspect me of dropping acid through the box."

You can learn more about her life as an activist and local councillor in the exhibition.

Another magazine, found in a collection of ‘stuff’ belonging to my Stepfather Jim Smith.