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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵
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I did enjoy finding out that a former pupil of Jimmy Clark's was John Gollan (1911-72), general secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain. ⚒️⭐🇬🇧 He got 6 months in 1931 for handing out socialist pamphlets (“The Soldier’s Voice” and “The Organ of Communist Soldiers“) at Redford Barracks 🧑‍⚖️

Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵@threadinburgh.scot

Jimmy’s: the thread about the school on St Leonard’s Crag St Leonard's Crag is the romantic sounding name for a quarried-out promontory where Holyrood Park meets the old district of St Leonard's. Perched atop it is a handsome old building whose striking feature is a grand corner tower on which…

threadinburgh.scotJimmy’s: the thread about the school on St Leonard’s CragSt Leonard's Crag is the romantic sounding name for a quarried-out promontory where Holyrood Park meets the old district of St Leonard's. Perched atop it is a handsome old building whose striking feature is a grand corner tower on which regular listeners with a keen eye will spot the letters "ESB "; a give-away that this was once a school. But not just any school, it was the last that would be designed and built by the Edinburgh School Board and one that was strikingly different from what had come before it. This is the former James Clark School- better known locally as "Jimmy's".

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