Strathcarnage Grammar School was founded by those originally shipwrecked on the S.S. Cloven Hoof in 1754 while being transported to a city Mental Asylum. The town founding fathers officially created the school after numerous vain and suicidal attempts to teach the shipwrecked unfortunates how to read and write. From that date the school was based in the town centre and remained a much loved landmark for many years.

  Following a catastrophic fire during 3rd year Chemistry experiments, the Grammar School was relocated to its current highly secure site on the outskirts of the town, the new school opening in the summer of 1977. Radiation levels at the original crater are now stabilising and scientific experts remain hopeful that the current exclusion zone may be lifted as soon as 2087.

  A memorial to the twelve children hideously burned to death and disfigured by flame during those experiments in the chemistry labs was erected in the Town by local sculptor Ian Combs. His haunting piece, known movingly as 'The Hideous Charring of the Mostly Innocent' is a much loved local landmark and will be the centrepiece for this year's 30th Anniversery Remembrance Ceremony.