The London Club sponsors the school’s ‘Prize For An English Poem’ at the annual prize-giving ceremony. This Year’s Winner is Hannah McLaughlin. Her poem, ‘The Apple Tree” is published here along with winning poems from previous years.
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A quick review of the plans for the Old Royal High School building
Your correspondent spent a useful hour reading through the planning application for the Old Royal High School building recently published on the City of Edinburgh Council’s web site. For an overview I opened the Design Access Statement (Part 1 of 2) which contains some very clear drawings and some great photographs.
A visit to the Old Royal High School site on the 24th of April 2024.
Your correspondent took a walk along Edinburgh’s Waterloo Place to see what progress has been made with the redevelopment of the Old Royal High School into the National Centre for Music. A plaque by the front gate announces the building as ‘New Parliament House 5&7 Regent Road’. This name was chosen for a proposed devolved legislature […]
Two new directors appointed to the RHS Preservation Trust.
Two new directors have been appointed to the Royal High School Preservation Trust: Grant Mackenzie and Kate Smith. Both have extensive experience of building restoration projects and it is good to see people with this expertise working on the Old Royal High School. Read the full article in ‘Scottish Construction Now’ from 7th Dec 2023.
Wanted, people to run the Old Royal High School renovation project
THE Royal High School Preservation Trust (RHSPT), the charity behind the transformation of Edinburgh’s Royal High School into a National Centre for Music, is searching for a chair and trustees to help lead the project. If you are interested in the Old Royal High School renovation you may wish to apply for the positions advertised […]
Old Royal High School plans scaled back.
The plans for renovation of the Old Royal High School building have been scaled back because of escalating costs. As a result St Mary’s music school will not now relocate to Regent Road. However the proposed National Music Centre for Scotland will still be created on the Regent Road site. Further details on The National […]
St Mary’s School at the Old Royal High
The old Regent Road buildings are being converted for use by the St Mary’s School of music. Pupils from the school were given a sneak preview of their new home. An article and photographs appear in The Scottish Field Since this news item was posted, it has now been reported that the restoration will be […]
The Royal High School digital history
The RHS Club is pleased to announce that the ‘Digital History’, which has until now been available only on a USB memory stick, has been substantially transferred to the Club website.The new product is very similar to the USB format, except for some components which are too large for online publication, including several large videos, and PDF’s of the five main […]