Gird and cleek

Gird and cleek

ID: AB_HFM_SCHOOL_020 DESCRIPTION: Children outside the Knockbain School at the Highland Folk Museum in Newtonmore. The boy in the centre of the picture has successfully mastered the art of the gird and cleek and is running while controlling the hoop with an attached cleek. This traditional game was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries using either a purpose-made hoop or in many cases simply utilising articles which were part of everyday life such as old bicycle or pram wheels or the metal hoops of barrels. The school was originally erected about 1925 at Knockbain by Kirkhill, 13 kilometres from Inverness and was moved to the museum in 1998, opening in spring 2000. It is a pre-fabricated, timber framed, iron-clad building of a kind that was common in Scotland from the mid-1800s and measures 12 metres by 6 metres. It encloses 4 timber board rooms, namely a large classroom with a range to provide heat, a cloakroom with 3 washbasins, a small teacher's room and an adjoining teacher's toilet. The picture shows the large windows incorporated into the building to give a light, airy interior. PLACENAME: Highland Folk Museum DISTRICT: Badenoch OLD COUNTY/PARISH: INVERNESS: Kingussie and Insh CREATOR (AV): Clare Maclean DATE OF IMAGE: 14 June 2006 PERIOD: 2000s SOURCE: Am Baile COLLECTION: Highland Folk Museum Schoolhouse Asset ID: 348 KEYWORDS: