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Kirriemuir - Schools

Webster's Seminary - 1940s

A noted graduate (1914) of Webster's Seminary was William Ogilvy Kermack, later a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.  In 1921 he was appointed as Chemist.  In June 1924, when working alone in the laboratory, an experiment blew up in his face leaving him totally and permanently blind.  This, however, did not prevent his continuing a distinguished career and he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1944.  In 1948, he was appointed to the MacLeod-Smith Chair of Biological Chemistry in the University of Aberdeen.  By 1948, he had spent 27 years in the Laboratory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, was appointed to the MacLeod-Smith Chair.  His interests included carbohydrate metabolism and antimalarial drugs.  He retired in 1968.  (See Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh and University and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.)

See also Webster's Seminary Circa 1958.

Site of the Reform Street School - June 1977

This is the Town Hall in Kirriemuir.  It and the Reform Street School once stood next to each other.  Reform street School closed circa 1977 and was still standing in the 1980's to the left (west) of the Town Hall.  Pupils who attended the school in the 1970's went to the Town Hall for gym lessons.  The Lyell Court sheltered housing complex now stands on the site of Reform Street School.  (The Capital Scot remembers when they used to hold dances here weekend evenings in the 1950s.)

Site of the Reform Street School - October 1997

This is the Town Hall that now occupies the location of the Reform Street School in Kirriemuir.  A noted graduate of the school, who attended there in the early 1950s, was Bon Scott, mentioned elsewhere in these pages.

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