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McDonald Road, EDINBURGH, EH7 4NW

In the 1960s, the rebuilt section on the left housed among other classrooms a modern, state-of-the-art 'Language Laboratory'. The RE provision was less progressive. This contributor remembers spending the best part of a year copying out, week after week, The Acts Of The Apostles until the RE teacher reached retirement.

Broughton Primary School on the left and Broughton Senior Secondary School on the right opened in 1906. The Secondary served the children of the Stockbridge, lower New Town, Warriston and upper Leith Walk areas until it moved to Comely Bank in 1970. This view is from the playground at the back of the secondary school. Probably its best known alumnus was the poet Christopher Grieve, better known by his pen name Hugh McDiarmid. He was one of the inspirational figures behind the political Home Rule movement in the 1950s and 60s and devoted much of his life to reviving the Scots tongue, going as far as creating a semi-artificial modern version which he called Lallans (meaning Lowland Scots).

Rubbish is loaded onto trains here.

Railway line serving the waste depot at Powderhall. Site of Powderhall Station.

A waste transfer station in Edinburgh's northern suburbs.

A humble addition to Broughton Senior Secondary was this annexe (1930s build?) which accommodated the 'baby-boomers' of the 1950s and 60s. It contained a small gym hall, along with Technical Education and English classrooms. In the 1960s, one of the wooden desks here bore the distinctive name, C M Grieve, carved carefully with a pen-knife. If genuine, it suggests that it was here that Hugh McDiarmid developed his love of poetry...or, alternatively, found English poetry a bore.

The primary school on the right and the former secondary school, currently up for sale, on the left. The lawn in the foreground belongs to the Powderhall Bowling Club.

Built by the Edinburgh School Board in 1909.