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George Heriots

School

   Raphael Tuck "Oilette" postcard - Heriot's Hospital ©

 

Recollections

1.

Ken Boak
Redhill, Surrey, England

-  1972-1976

-  Journey to School

-  Lunchtime

-  Lauriston Place

-  Other Shops

2.

Alan Dodds
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

-  Tuck Shop

3.

Alan Dodds
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

-  Kenya Cafe

4.

Tony Moore
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

-  1930 - 1939

-  The Wee Shop

-  Old Herioters

-  Return Visits to Edinburgh

5.

Allan Dodds
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

-  The King is Dead

Recollections

1.

Ken Boak

Redhill, Surrey, England

Thank you to Ken Boak for sending me his memories of attending Heriots.

Ken wrote:

1972 to 1976

"I was born in Haddington and lived there for 11 years. I attended Heriots between 1972 and 1976, before moving out to the Isle of Man.

Many of my pals stayed at Heriots until 1983, and I had a few trips back as a teenager."

I used to run from Heriots to the St. Andrews Square bus station every afternoon, to catch the 14:50 bus back to Haddington.

Journey to School

"In the mornings, I used to meet a friend off the train from Kinghorn, Fife at Waverley Station.  Then we used to dawdle as slow as possibly up to Heriots - in order to miss morning assembly!  We became experts at skiving assembly.

Our circuitous route used to take us along just about every street and close up to the High St, and George IV Bridge. Sometimes we used to divert via Victoria St. and the Grass Market - if we thought we were going to be too early! 

Fleshmarket Close was a favourite of mine - mainly because of the pet shop - mentioned elsewhere in your recollections.  I am certain that it was still trading up until 1975 or so.  It was worth hanging around for 5 minutes just to look at the animals.  I tried looking for the site of the pet shop last Monday.  I think it was possibly near 'Jinglin Geordie', where the close is wider."

Lunchtime

"I remember the lunchtime trip down the Vennel, past the east end of Keir Street, to the chip shop in the Grassmarket, where:

-  a 'poke' of chips was 5p.

-  a can of coke or a Mars Bar were just 4p.

-  'Tudor' crisps were 2.5p.

-  Waggonwheels 2p.

This was the diet the young Herioter survived on  -  as the school meals in the refectory were truly disgusting."

Lauriston Place

"Lauriston Place still had shop-fronts on the north side.  There was the 'Kenya Cafe' on the corner of Lauriston Place and Heriot Place, then a grocer/general store/newsagents which sold the Mars Bars and Cola.

All these were torn town in the early 1980s when Lauriston Place was re-gentrified. I'd love to see some 'before and after' photos of this much- changing area.  The changes of the 1970s are nothing compared to the new "Quartermile" developments."

Other Shops

"Other haunts were:

-  Browns Wireless on George IV Bridge, where we would spend our pocket money on parts for radio kits - not surprising that I became an electronics engineer. 

-  Marionville Models, originally in Marionville Drive,  where I bought model aircraft kits.  It was run by a couple of Italian/Scots brothers, and they had an ice cream factory in the building next door.  I suspect it had been an Italian ice cream parlour a few years earlier.  Marionville Models are still in business, 35 years on!"

Ken Boak, Redhill, Surrey, England:  August 28, 2009

 Recollections

2.

Allan Dodds

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Thank you to Allan Dodds who wrote:

Tuck Shop

"When I attended George Heriot's School, there was a tuck shop in The Vennel, run by Mary Wallace (Old Ma Wallace). The shop was packed out with pupils at break and lunchtimes when various items as diverse as:

-  a glass of lemonade

-  a penny chew

-  a sherbet dab or

-  a single Senior Service cigarette

could be purchased.

Needles to say, theft was rife, but Mary put up with it and no-one was ever reported to the Headmaster as she was shrewd enough to figure out that all pupils would have been banned as a consequence of any such complaint  -  bad for business.

In spite of this, Mary was very trusting and often would entrust her day's takings in a bag to a pupil who would be well rewarded for depositing huge sums of cash in the Bank of Scotland along the road in Lauriston Place. Such days of innocence and tolerance!"

Allan Dodds, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England:  March 12, 2010

 Recollections

3.

Allan Dodds

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Thank you to Allan Dodds who wrote:

Kenya Cafe

"Ken Boak (in 1 above) talks about the Kenya Cafe in Lauriston Place. As the school meals at Heriots were so appallingly inedible at the time, a few of us used to frequent the Kenya Cafe at lunchtime.

Regrettably, our bad behaviour caused us to be banned, and we reverted to a chip shop to the south of the school whose name escapes me."

Allan Dodds, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England:  May 30, 2010

 Recollections

4.

Tony Moore

Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Thank you to Tony Moore who wrote:

1930 - 1939

"I was a pupil at Heriot's from 1920 to 1939..  I left Edinburgh in 1957 and now live in Vancouver Island, Canada."

The Wee Shop

"I wonder if anyone remembers the wee shop in the Vennel.  There was a very steep stair down into a dark little underground shop which sold lemonade and pies - very unsanitary, but tasty nevertheless."

Old Herioters

"I have only met two old Herioters in all the time I have lived in Canada - Toronto, Edmonton and Vancouver Island, although I know that there is a Chapter of the Heriot Club in Toronto."

Return Visits to Edinburgh

"We have made numerous trips back to Edinburgh.  On one sojourn I visited the school, but unfortunately it was a holiday.  I wandered around it and saw little change from my early years there.

Tony Moore, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

 

 Recollections

5.

Allan Dodds

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Thank you to Allan Dodds who wrote, after reading Lex Gordon's recollections of the day that King George VI died:

The King is Dead

"I also remember vividly hearing of the death of George VI.  At Heriot's, our Headmaster, William McLaren Dewar, came round all of the classes to announce: 'Boys, the King is dead!'.

We had a holiday the following day and the flag at the Castle flew at half mast for a while."

Allan Dodds, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England:  April 30, 2012

 

Recollections

 

 

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