AS A child, I always wondered why it said Govan Parish School Board on the side of my Partick primary. I was admittedly hazy on Glasgow’s geography at that point but even I knew that Govan was across the river. I’m not the only one who has wondered why. Over the years, we have had many visitors to the archive searchroom who have asked the same question of other schools in the city. Years passed before I discovered the answer. It goes back to the Education (Scotland) Act 1872 which we highlighted a few weeks agoin an article about the School Board of Glasgow, one of almost a thousand school boards created by the Act.