One of our senior members Garry Ross (RHS 1950) has sadly passed away. Garry lived in Marcham, a small village near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, and he travelled up to London to attend our autumn drinks parties well into his eighties. Garry sometimes met up with his brother at our events although his brother was in […]
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Hotel Plan for Regent Road News
Plans to turn the old Royal High School building at Regent Road into a Hotel have been rejected. This now clears the way for plans for a new music school to be submitted. See full article from the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/oct/27/edinburgh-ministers-reject-plans-to-convert-neoclassical-building-into-hotel
George “Jock” Dewar
Tom Bacciarelli’s Eulogy to “Jock” Dewar has been added to the Obituaries on this site. Badger’s obituary in the Scotsman which was written, jointly, by Jock’s niece and his friend Tom Bacciarelli who is a retired RHS teacher. “George Dewar, Classics master and sports coach who influenced generations of pupils in classroom and on sports […]
Royal High Barnton Anniversary in the News
As part of the celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of the move of the Royal High School from Regent Road to a brand new building at Barnton, two boys from the Primary School who were photographed by the Edinburgh Evening News when they were given a tour of the building under construction have been tracked […]