Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Kilmacolm HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear Yes DisabledAccess Yes OpeningTime1 10 am - 3pm OpeningDate1 31/8/2019 IsNewThisYear Yes ID Google Panorama ID 18614 Refreshments No Street The street address Knockbuckle Road Postcode PA13 4EQ Parking Yes DisabledWC Yes LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St Columba's School, Kilmacolm Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived inverclyde Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2871 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.86362,-4.261207; Description An account of the resource <p>St Columba’s was opened in 1897 as an independent boarding and day school to 54 young ladies. Pioneering educators, such as Georgina Kinnear and her protégés, Miss Young and Miss Waugh, were pivotal in shaping the School ensuring that the girls not only received “an education not inferior to that of their brothers”, but one which allowed them to develop their individual talents and aspirations.</p><p>Shalott, an impressive Victorian mansion on Knockbuckle Road, housed first the School’s boarders and when boarding ceased in 1970, it was developed as the home of Junior School.</p><p>Come in and explore this historical building.</p> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1897