Recollections

Blackhall

Primary School

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1.

Tony Jones
Edinburgh

-  Police Road Safety Unit

2.

Maggie WYNTON (née CAMPBELL)
Black Isle, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland

-  School Demolished

 

Recollections

1.

Tony Jones

Edinburgh

Yesterday, I added to the EdinPhoto web site, recollections of the Police Road Safety Unit's visits to two schools:

 -  Trinity Academy Primary School and to

-   Abbeyhill Primary School.

Today, Tony Jones has sent me his recollections of the unit's visits to:

-  Blackhall Primary School.  (See below.)

Tony wrote:

Police Road Safety Unit

Blackhall Primary School

"I  think this topic may run and run!

I remember the visits by the Police Road Safety Unit, probably at the end of the summer term in the early 1960s, to the original Blackhall Primary School at the end of Queen's Road in Blackhall. The school was demolished & replaced with retirement flats a good few years ago."

Presentation to the School

"I think there was a talk (of which I remember nothing!) and then, in the playground, the policemen would roll out white lines to mark out kerbs.

A cardboard cutout of a child was tucked under the far 'kerb' with a length of string attached, a police car was accelerated down the “road”, the string was pulled, the car locked its brakes and slid into the cardboard cutout.

The whole exercise was then repeated with a police motorbike which would skid much further with the back wheel locked. Inevitably the cardboard cutout always came off worst."

Tony Jones, Edinburgh:  July 10, 2014

More Recollections of School Visits

For more recollections of visits to schools by the Police Road Safety Unit, please see:

Police Road Safety Unit  -  School Visits

Recollections

2.

Maggie Wynton (née Campbell)

Black Isle, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland

Maggie Wynton wrote:

School Demolished

"I  attended Blackhall Primary from 1954, to1956 then I moved to Fife. 

The school has since been demolished but I wondered if there were any photographs of it taken.

I was very happy there.  My teachers were Miss Gemmell, Miss Mackenzie and Miss Bonniman."

Maggie Wynton, Black Isle, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland:  1 May 2016

Reply to Maggie Wynton?

If you know of any old photos of Blackhall Primary School, please email me to let me know, then I'll pass on your message to Maggie.

Thank you.

Police Road Safety Unit  -  School Visits

Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh:  1 May 2016

 

Recollections

 

 

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