Remember when: School's out forever for communities

THEY are memories to be treasured by the thousands of youngsters who spent years in the classrooms and playgrounds of these schools.

From sports days to quiz nights, music concerts to skipping games, many childhoods will have been filled with fun and laughter from the friendships made during this time.

Yet every school building pictured here has closed within the last two years.

This week the Evening News reported that Lismore Primary, is to be demolished, two years after it shut down.

The vacant building has been the victim of vandal and fire-raising attacks and the local authority now plans to put the land up for sale.

A similar fate lies ahead for Burdiehouse Primary, which closed in the summer and will soon be flattened.

A contractor has taken over the site and it will eventually be put on the market.

Pictured here, lining up before a quiz against pupils from Clermiston Primary in May 1964, these youngsters from Drumbrae Primary probably thought their school building would always be a feature of their community.

Yet it too closed last summer, has since been demolished and a new council-run care home is planned for the site, forever placing the building in the history books.

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