Tynecastle Secondary School - A class with Meccano

Tynecastle Secondary School

Meccano

Thank you to John Smith for providing the photograph of a classroom at Tynecastle Secondary School, taken around 1930.

Meccano models and a framed certificate from the Meccano Guild are on display at the front of the room.

John wrote:

"My Uncle Tommy Forsyth is in the front row, 5th from the left."

Acknowledgement: John Smith, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland: July 31, 2009

Zoom-in

Here, we zoom-in on some of the pupils and the Meccano model.

Question

Neil McLennan

Tynecastle School

School History

Neil McLennan, a teacher at Tynecastle school, tells me that he is currently doing some research into the school's history. He hopes that this can be made into a book for when the school moves to its new site and the old building disappears.

Neil is wondering if anybody has any information to help him, especially anything relating to the First World War:

- photographs.

- students who went to war.

- info on the school's involvement in the war effort.

- Officers from Craiglockhart who taught at the school.

Answers?

If you have any information that you think might be of interest to Neil, please email me, then I'll pass your message on to him.

- Peter Stubbs: April 16, 2009

Question

Frank Shaw

Perth, Western Australia

1950s and 1960s

Frank Shaw who used to live at 18 East Thomas Street, Edinburgh, and now lives in Perth, Western Australia tells me that he is trying to track down information about Tynecastle High School in the 1950s and 1960s

Answers?

If you have any information that you think might be of interest to Frank, please email me, then I'll pass your message on to him.

- Peter Stubbs: October 2, 2009

Recollections

Ian Harding

Gorgie, Edinburgh

Thank you to Ian Harding who wrote:

School Cleaning

"My Gran lived at 61 Gorgie Road, and was a cleaner at my old school, Tynecastle, for 37 years. It was a personal bonus to be able to end the day by helping her to move the furniture around, to enable her to get her work done quickly.

Subsequently, my personal knowledge of the internal structure of the school and the availability of any educational equipment resulted in me being recognised as a kind of 'handy ferret'."

Ian Harding, Gorgie, Edinburgh: Message posted in EdinPhoto guest book, April 15, 2011

Recollections

Mirella Arcidacono

Orkney, Scotland

Thank you to Ian Harding who wrote:

Meccano Set

"I've found some information about this photo of the class with the Meccano set at Tynecastle school.

The photo appeared in the school magazine. I don't yet know the precise year of the magazine. It was published between 1929 and 1931.

It is written in the school magazine that the photo was taken by Mr William Kirkness. He was the craft teacher at the school at that time."

Mirella Arcidacono, Orkney, Scotland: February 1, 2012

Recollections

Pat Dougan (nee Rennie)

Edinburgh

Thank you to Ian Harding who wrote:

Early 1960s

Teachers

"I was at Tynecastle High in the early-1960s. I lived in Stewart Terrace from 1952 to 1966.

I remember:

- Mr Kennedy, the Headmaster

- Mr Don, Deputy Headmaster

- Mrs McCallum, English Teacher

- Miss Davie, History Teacher

- Mr Little, Science Teacher

Annex

"The school had an annex in the old Gorgie school, which had a Play Club every day, run by Miss Rae, a teacher from Craiglockhart Primary

Chocolate Delivery

"I also remember the chocolate delivery at McVitie's. My my mum worked in the Order Department there."

Pat Dougan (nee Rennie), Edinburgh: May 18, 2012