Queen’s Park Public School was built by the Cathcart Parish School Board and in time was accommodated in four adjacent buildings, the earliest of which opened in 1874.
Two of the buildings were of blond ashlar blocks (gothic details, one on cast-iron columns over shelter). A two-storey red-ashlar Renaissance Higher Grade block, designed by David Barclay was completed in 1900.
One of the four buildings was destroyed by fire in 1912, when the primary school pupils were transferred to a new school in Cuthbertson Street.
In 1967 the school vacated its old site in Grange Road to become a comprehensive in new premises in Toryglen.
Grange Road became a Teachers’ Centre, housing a then state-of-the-art main-frame computer training unit.
In the late 1990s, Grange Road was acquired by the Victoria Infirmary, which had its outpatients’ department on the opposite side of Grange Road.
The school buildings were demolished to make way for the New Victoria Infirmary – opened in 2009.
Some of the school stonework has been incorporated into the rear entrance to the hospital building.