Wardie School Class
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1959
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Reproduced with acknowledgement to Yvonne
Cain (nee Dorr)
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Wardie
School Class |
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Photograph
Thank you to Yvonne Cain (nee
Dorr), now living in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, for sending this
photograph of a school class from Wardie, taken in the 1950s. Yvonne
is third from the right on the front row:
Yvonne Dorr
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Yvonne writes: |
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School
"I remember some the names of some of the
people at Wardie:
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Dorothy, Isabella, Brenda Fraser, Shelia Fraser,
Colin McGregory, David, Gill, Carol Gill, Marie Gill (I think) and
David Junner whose dad had a garage at Goldenacre." |
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Family and Homes
I used to live in a Prefab at West Pilton
Broadway, then at 28 Boswall Terrace. She went to Wardie school in
the 1950s, then to Ainsley Park school for about a year, then moved
to Glasgow.
I
returned to Edinburgh at the age of 15, living in Montgomery Street, where
my mum and dad who ran the Post Office there Then, in 1969, I
emigrated from Edinburgh to Sydney, Australia. |
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Grandparents
"My granny was born at Croft-an-Righ, as her
father was Head Gardener at Holyrood Palace.
She later lived at
27 Royston Mains Garden, next to the bowling green.
My grandad had a great garden. He was a Boson in the navy and used
to drink at the Anchor." |
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Uncle
"My great uncle, Robert Malcolm was a horse
dealer he had a place at Juniper green called Whitelaw, near the golf
course. You could see the railway crossing from his front gate. His
father was also a dealer in horses." |
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Yvonne Cain (nee Dorr), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: July 7
to 24, 2006. |
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