Glasgow & West of Scotland College of Domestic Science (Incorporated) (Higher education institution: 1908-1975: Park Drive, Glasgow, Scotland)

The Queen’s College, Glasgow, Scotland had its origins in the Glasgow & West of Scotland College of Domestic Science (Incorporated) . This institution, affectionately known as the Dough School, had been established in 1908 as the result of an amalgamation of the Glasgow School of Cookery and the West End School of Cookery, Glasgow and was recognised as a Scottish Central Institution in July 1909 . In March 1975, its centenary year, the College received the Royal accolade and was renamed The Queen’s College, Glasgow, (Queen Elizabeth II had been its patron since 1944). On 1 April 1993 Glasgow Polytechnic and the Queen’s College, Glasgow amalgamated to form Glasgow Caledonian University .

The first offices of the College were at 86 Bath Street, Glasgow. In 1909 an appeal was launched to fund the construction of a new building. A site in Park Drive, facing West End Park, Glasgow (now Kelvingrove Park) was chosen and building began in 1913. When the building was nearing completion the Red Cross requested use of the building as a hospital for the duration of the war. The Governors consented and the Woodside Red Cross Hospital subsequently opened. In 1919 the Red Cross handed the Park Drive building back to the College. Between 1923 and 1934 the College’s premises were extended by the acquisition of the 3 dwelling houses adjacent to the Park Drive building. In the 1970s the Park Drive campus was further extended and in September 1975 a new building was completed and opened.

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