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Torphichen Street
School
1906 |
Year Six at Torphichen Street
School, Edinburgh - 1906
© Reproduced with
acknowledgement to Ed Thomson, Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland
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Torphichen Street
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Thank you to Ed Thomson for sending the
photograph above.
Ed wrote: |
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Torpichen Street School
"Here is the photo of year
six at Torpichen Street School in 1906.
The male teacher is Mr. Downie who was my late Father's
teacher. My Father is standing next
to him in the second back row.
At that time my Father
lived at 4 Rosebery Crescent (basement!) and was 12 years old. He
joined the North British Railway as a Toll Keeper
in 1909 at Port Hamilton on the Union Canal. Apart
from Military Service in the Royal Artillery during WWI. he was a
railwayman for over 50 years. |
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Wardie
School
"Mr Downie was the first
Headmaster at
Wardie School and it was a great surprise to my
father and myself when I was enrolled
at Wardie Primary in 1934!
Headmaster at Wardie
School was
Mr Downie's last appointment.
He retired before
World War II broke out and he was succeeded by Mr Vickers. |
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Ed Thomson, Glamis Castle, Angus,
Scotland: November 20, 2006
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