Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren Yes Place The town or city Finzean HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear Yes DisabledAccess Yes OpeningTime1 1.00pm - 4.00pm OpeningDate1 14/9/2019 OpeningDate2 15/9/2019 OpeningTime2 1.00pm - 4.00pm IsNewThisYear Yes ID Google Panorama ID 18591 Refreshments No Street The street address The Old School AddressLine2 Bankhead Postcode AB31 6NY 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 The Old School, Bankhead, Finzean Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived aberdeenshire Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 397 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,57.0305929,-2.6717306; Description An account of the resource <p>The school at Bankhead (Finzean) was established in 1732, as an endowed school. The endowment was a legacy of a former resident of the parish, Rev. Gilbert Ramsay, and funded by the sale of enslaved people in Barbados. the building was extended and adapted a number of times, including alterations by the architect of Balmoral Castle (William Smith ll), up to 1964 when a new building was opened on the adjacent school garden. In 2004 the community, through Birse Community Trust (BCT), acquired the Old School site.</p> <p>in need of conservation and repair to meet the needs of the community, BCT recently completed a Project Viability study on the future of the site. in parallel with the study a community heritage project , called 'Aye, it wis aabody', explored the history of the school and links with chattel slavery in the Caribbean. Visitors will have the opportunity to see inside the buildings, where there will also be displays on the Feasibility Study and 'Aye, it wis aabody' project.</p>