Memories: pupils learn to use green fingers in Rutherglen in 1954
SCHOOL'S out and these youngsters look happy to be heading home after another day digging the dirt.
No, they were not budding journalists, but pupils being given a day's lessons about horticulture.
They were being given outdoor education at Woodburn House, Rutherglen, which was where apprentices learned their skills on a three-year course with Glasgow's parks and recreation department.
Woodburn House was part of the Langside College Campus. Before that, in the 1920s, it was used as a hostel for the training and boarding of blind children aged five to 16. whose parents could not afford to pay for these.
Woodburn House was closed in 2012 and an upmarket housing development, called Woodburn Gait,
is being built on the site.
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