Logie school

commonwealth of the nations of the world.”

In formally declaring the school open he expressed the hope that it would long be a centre of happy and profitable work, both for the teachers and for the pupils.

The school opened for public inspection in the evening and 5,000 people passed through its doors for a look.

Peter Murphy was the last headmaster of the school and organised a closing fair and the printing of a school history before it closed.

He went on to become the highly respected Head Teacher of Whitfield High School before retirement in 1993 and then in turn become Depute Provost of Angus.

Mr Murphy said: “It was strangely enough the school that David Lowson attended in the 1930s when his family were living next door in Rosefield Street.

“David, of course, is now 100 and is famous in Carnoustie as his ancestor Tammas Lousen founded the town some 200 years ago.

“I was the last head teacher at Logie before becoming the founding rector of Whifield High School which opened in August 1976.

“Logie was indeed known as The Penitentiary or Colditz because of its architecture and had a military feel about it given the playground rituals used to control the pupils prior to their ‘march’ into the school building!”

The tradition on the site of Logie of forward thinking in education would be continued by the building of the West End Campus in 2012 containing Victoria Park (non-denominational) Primary School, with a rich diversity of nationalities, languages and cultures, along with St Joseph’s RC Primary School and Balgay Hill Nursery School.

Iain Flett from the Friends of Dundee City Archives said: “Logie housing estate and Logie School together literally represented a breath of fresh air after the horrors and sacrifices of The Great War – homes fit for heroes on the one hand, with heating, bathrooms, gardens and space, and a school in a novel hexagonal design on the other, providing a secondary education on modern principles that would give pupils opportunity and inspiration in a healthy environment.”

Top picture shows the school in all its glory while the aerial photo shows the burnt-out interior of its famous hexagonshaped building and, bottom, the sad aftermath of the fire.