Leith Walk Primary School

Leith Walk Primary School

Thank you to Christine Anderson for allowing me to reproduce this photograph of a school class at Leith Walk Primary School, taken in 1954.

Acknowledgement: Christine Anderson, nee Keith, Duddingston, Edinburgh: May 14, 2009

Thank you to Christine for also providing the list of names below.

Leith Walk Primary School 1954
From left	1st Row Back Row	2nd Row	3d Row	4th Row Front Row
1	?	Jimmy Leslie	?	John Littlejohn
2	Jimmy Gray	Pat Wilson	Rena Ferguson	Billy Currie
3	Tommy Spalding	Christine Drummond	Elizabeth Robertson	Alex Robertson
4	Ian Nicol	Lorraine Cowe	May Laidlaw	Tommy Smith
5	Ian Farquar	Alice Morrison	Hope Laidlaw	Norman Bishop
6	Graham Wilson	Anne Smith	Nancy Matson	Dale Traynor
7	Eric Daly	Helen Robertson	Pat Reid	David Nelson
8	Ronald Stout	Dougie Gibson	Christine Keith
9	Raymond Shanks
Names provided by Christine Anderson, nee Keith, Duddingston, Edinburgh: September 4, 2009

Recollections

Kim Traynor

Tollcross Edinburgh

Thank you to Kim Traynor, who grew up at 18 East Thomas Street, for contacting me after finding the photograph above sent in by Christine Anderson (nee Keith).

Kim wrote:

Leith Walk Primary School Class

"My older brother, Dale Traynor, is on the front row of this photo and Christine is on the row behind him.

I recognised Christine immediately. I remember her well by sight, although we had no contact as such, as her generation was about four years ahead of mine.

I know that the skirt she is wearing in the photograph was a red tartan with a yellow or white stripe."

Kim Traynor, Tollcross, Edinburgh: September 19, 2009

Kim added:

Coal Deliveries

"The brick wall set at a diagonal angle between the two boys on the back row, upper-right, was where coal was delivered to feed the school’s heating system.

It was strictly out of bounds to pupils who would have gladly turned the lumps of coal into missiles. One of the school janitors would always make an appearance at break-times, just to check nobody was getting too close to their precious hoard."

Kim Traynor, Tollcross, Edinburgh: September 20, 2009