Lesmahagow Schools

In 2004, South Lanarkshire Council began an ambitious School Modernisation Programme to modernise or replace all primary and secondary schools in its area. In Lesmahagow, Lesmahagow High School and Woodpark and Milton Primary Schools were all replaced eith new buildings. This page shows the old and new schools.

Milton Primary School

The old Lesmahagow Milton Primary School

The old Milton Primary School (affectionally known as the White School). This photograph was taken on the 2nd June 2010 after the school was closed and before it was demolished. For most of the next two years, the pupils were bussed to the old Woodpark Primary School while their new school was built.

The almost completed new Lesmahagow Milton Primary School

The almost completed new school on 3rd May 2012.

The new Lesmahagow Milton Primary School

The new Milton Primary School on the 19th August 2012, shortly after it opened.

Woodpark Primary School

The old Woodpark Primary School

The old Woodpark Primary School on the 9th March 2014, before it was demolished. The dark building in the distance is the New School.

The new Woodpark Primary School

The new Woodpark Primary School on the 9th March 2014. It was opened to the pupils and staff in June 2010. The new school was built next to the old school but the old school was retained as a temporary home, first for Milton Primary School and then Coalburn Primary School while their schools were rebuilt.

Link to Morgan Sindall Construction: Pupils move into Woodpark Primary School

Demolition of the old Woodpark Primary School