A SCHOOL made famous in the cult comedy film Gregory's Girl is being flattened by demolition crews.
Abronhill High in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, where they filmed the Bill Forsyth comedy in 1981, is being razed to the ground following the failure of a campaign to keep its door open.
Yesterday bulldozers had started tearing the school apart and flattening the building, with the front face already having been ripped off by workers.
Parents and campaigners had planned to take court action in a bid to keep the school open last year and £5,500 had been raised to start a case against North Lanarkshire Council, claiming the authority has not followed school closure legislation.
Last June, Scottish Ministers rubber-stamped a decision by the local authority to close the school and in December the Save Abronhill High group announced their campaign was at an end after taking legal advice.
Many of the scenes for Gregory's Girl - which starred John Gordon Sinclair as Gregory, Dee Hepburn as Dorothy and Clare Grogan as Susan - were filmed at Abronhill High, which opened in 1978.
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