Fettes College from the west entrance
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Fettes College from the west entrance
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 30 Jan 2010
Fettes, widely regarded as Edinburgh's premier independent school, was originally founded by a Lord Provost to provide an education for poor children and orphans, many of whom were 'sons of the manse'. Life at the school in 1900 is described by Robert Bruce Lockhart in his memoir 'My Scottish Youth'. Lockhart's experiences as a British diplomat and secret agent in Moscow, detailed in his 1932 book, 'Memoirs Of A British Agent", may have been the inspiration behind Ian Fleming identifying Fettes as the school attended by his character, James Bond, in the 1950s spy novels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._H._Bruce_Lockhart
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Image Location
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