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Royal High
School
Regent Road
"Here are some of the words that
we used at the Royal High School at Regent Road, Edinburgh.
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gyte: a first year pupil.
This was used even in official school announcements at the Royal
High School. This ancient word was not uses after the
school's move to Barnton in 1968
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the yards:
the tarmac area between the back of
old Royal High and the Calton Hill retaining wall.
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the dungeons:
the area around the front of the school that was generally
forbidden to pupils.
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shapes:
a mini-football game played by any
number, in a knock-out competition, until one only remained.
A wall space was nominated and the
ball had to be kicked to hit that space. If you missed you
were eliminated. The ball had to be played from where it
rested.
This game was played
in Royal High School at Regent Road,
where there were many suitable walls.
It was played until the school made
the move to Barnton, in
1968, where wall space was less and open space were more
plentiful."
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