| Administrative History | Aberdeen School for the Deaf opened at the former Linksfield Primary School in 1957. Pupils were transferred to the school from Polmuir Road Special School for the Deaf (Polmuir Road in turn had replaced Westburn Road Oral School/Westburn Road Special School in 1945, which replaced the Oral School first established by Aberdeen School Board in 1904 at Beech Lodge, View Terrace). The Polmuir Road site continued to be used as a residential unit for pupils at the School for the Deaf - particularly necessary as the School provided education for children across the North East of Scotland - until c. 1995.
The Linksfield Road site closed in 1987, when the school moved to a new building at Regent Walk, connected to Linksfield Academy. It catered for around 50 pupils from nursery to 17 years. |