Kelvin Hall

The Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotland, is a mixed-use arts and sports venue that opened as an exhibition centre in 1927. It has been a music hall, indoor arena and barrage balloon factory, and is currently home to the Kelvin Hall International Sports Arena and from 1987 to 2010, Glasgow's Museum of Transport. It is protected as a category B listed building, and is served by Kelvinhall subway station.

As of 2014, all active sporting facilities have been temporarily suspended for a redevelopment scheduled to conclude in 2016. In the meantime, the building has served as the Uniform and Accreditation Centre for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, providing a 70,000 workforce with uniforms and photo identification.

History

The Kelvin Hall stands on the bank of the River Kelvin opposite the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in the West End of Glasgow. The present building dates from 1927. Its predecessor on the site, the Industrial Hall, a temporary wooden structure built for the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition at Kelvingrove Park, was destroyed by fire in 1925. The new Kelvin Hall was designed to house large-scale exhibitions. During the Second World War, it was converted into a factory for barrage and convoy balloons.

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Hall School

Hall School may refer to:

Fred P. Hall Elementary School

Hall School Wimbledon

Hall School (Hampstead)

Hall School (Hall, Indiana)

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The Hall School, Hampstead

The Hall School is an independent boys' preparatory school in Belsize Park, Hampstead, London, currently teaching boys from age 4 to age 13.

Description

The school, across its three buildings, has a roll of over 450 boys, approximately 50 in each Year from Years 1-8 and 32 in Reception.

Reception to Year 3 (ages 4-8) are based in the Junior School, Year 4 and 5 (ages 9-10) in the Middle School and Years 6 to 8 (ages 11-13) in the Senior School.

The school operates a house system of four houses: Blue, Green, Orange and Purple. These are used throughout the school for academic, physical and musical competitions.

The school is known for its pink uniform consisting for many years of a pink school blazer, cap and tie. Alumni will recognise the schoolboy terrorizing, recalled by food critic and old boy Giles Coren in his January 2010 article in The Times.

History

The school originated as Belsize School, founded in 1889 by the Revd Francis John Wrottesley, who with his wife had taken fee-paying pupils at their home in nearby 18 Buckland Crescent since 1881. The Wrottesleys sold their school in 1898 to the Revd D. H. Marshall, who took over an adjoining house in 1903, when there were 58 boys, including 10 boarders. In 1905 Marshall bought the Allen Olney girls' school, which his wife continued at Buckland Crescent.

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Hall School (Hall, Indiana)

Hall School in Hall, Indiana was designed by Henry H. Dupont and built in 1911. It is located at 5955 West Hurt Road at Hall in Gregg Township. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is an example of the Craftsman architecture in the vernacular. The building has 2-floors with six classrooms and additions built in 1957 and 1971. The Morgan County Historic Preservation Society, an affiliate of Indiana Landmarks, nominated the school to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, a year before the building went vacant due to school consolidation.

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Kelvin Hall School

Kelvin Hall School is a coeducational secondary school located in Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

It opened as Kelvin Hall, Bricknell High School in 1959, and was a technical school. Kelvin Hall was operated separately to Wyke Hall, Bricknell High School which was located on the same campus and was a secondary modern school. Kelvin Hall later took over the whole campus and became a comprehensive school. The school relocated to new buildings on the same site in 2012.

Today Kelvin Hall is a foundation school administered by Hull City Council and the West Hull Co-operative Learning Trust. The school offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.