Longstone Primary School Class - 1956

Longstone Primary School Names: left to right in each row
	Back Row	2nd Row	Front Row
1	Mr Munro	?	Frances Bold
2	Mr Gibson	?	Mae Young
3	Alex Polson	Kenneth ?	Olive Cupido
4	Robert Montgomery	Maureen Gold	Margaret Ellis
5	Robert Robertson	Carole Bruce	Eileen Daly
6	?	Anne Ewan	Helen Borthwick
7	Alan Forbes	Norma Deacon	Margaret Lawson
8	James Green	Irene Bowie	Irene Telford
9	Gordon Black	Carol Herschell	Margaret Gilchrist
10	G Gray	Flora ?	Ann Ford
11	Nicholas ?	Robert McMillan
12	Robert Fraser	?
13	Alan Sinden	Ian Faith
14	?	?
15	Norman Collie	Mrs Boyd school cleaner
16	The School Janitor
Acknowledgement Margaret Leslie, London, England, for providing the photo and names above: July 17, 2008 and more names, July 24, 2008.
Anybody Else? If you recognise anybody else on this photograph, please e-mail me. Thank you. - Peter Stubbs: April 27, 2008

Longstone Primary School

Here is a photograph of Longstone Primary School, taken around 1960:

School Class and Names

Thank you to Margaret Leslie for providing the photograph of the school class above, and for remembering all the names. Margaret is in the front row, fourth from the left.

July 18, 2008

Longstone School

1949-1955

"The photo at the top of this page was taken at the end of the summer term in 1956. It is of the same class as was photographed in their first year at Longstone Primary school in 1949-50:

1949-50

Here they are in their final year at the primary school. The photo was taken by the class teacher, Mr Gibson, using a delayed action camera. (Mr Gibson, by the way, was a man who made liberal use of the tawse.)

Union Canal Viaduct

In the background is the viaduct carrying the Union Canal across the Water of Leith with a glimpse of the 'waterfall' from the canal that used to freeze into icicles during harsh winters.

The 'waterfall' was created when surplus water was released from the Union Canal, into the Water of Leith at the point where the canal passed over the river. - Peter Stubbs: July 20, 2008

Three Schools

The Longstone school building was too small to cope with all the children coming from the newly built estates of prefabs and later of permanent housing around the village.

Classes were therefore spread between Longstone, Slateford and Juniper Green village schools. We were bussed to Juniper Green. One day the driver, who did not know the way, relied on some of the boys to direct him. They mischievously misdirected him so that we didn't get to Juniper Green till near dinner time. The driver was not pleased.

The head of Longstone School was a Mr Munro.

Margaret Leslie, London, England, for providing the photo and names above: July 17, 2008