Your Editor stopped updating his blog about a year ago when someone opined that the “recent projects seem to be endless. So good that you have been so busy, but I found myself losing interest as I scrolled down…” I assumed he was absolutely right, so simply stopped, but thought better of it, and have decided to start an annual version, which hopefully is more palatable. Here goes…click any of the topics below to be linked to another page or a PDF.

• Gordon McInally becomes President of World Rotary
• Meeting other Edinburgh archivists, and the SARA conference
• The 2024 School WW1 Battlefields Trip
• 2024 Annual Dinner, and 2023 Annual Dinner
• Robert Fergusson – 250th anniversary of his death
• Our 1996 Iranian Student – the 1996 student who spent just one term with us, but still remembers the school fondly.- article coming soon
• Douglas Ford G.C. A hero of the WW2 defence of Hong Kong. A former HK national proposes to feature Douglas as one of a series of ‘Heroes of Hong Kong’ books for young readers, whom he wishes to be acquainted with HK’s past.
• Charlie Byron – the charming story of the last days of a High Scholar and his wish to have some of his school memories recalled
• Shirley Duncan retires – One of the all-time great Administration office ladies.
• Our long-serving teachers – we all have our favourites…
• The timeline of Information Technology (IT) at RHS – article coming soon
• Photographs of the Barnton Campus under construction in 1966 -1967
• National Centre for Music Building (former Regent Road school Building) – plans A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated set of documents covering the entire site. RHS London Club Secretary Alex Prentice visited the site in April 2024, and his report includes several photos, a couple of which show that the Science/Gym block and the ‘Grubby’ at the east of the site have been completely demolished, only a pile of stones remaining.
• In December, we caught up with Allan Peden, 1964 School Captain, and he provided an entertaining account of his authorship of The 1971 Complete Edinburgh Pub Guide and other publications.
• Izuka Hoyle (one of our featured biographies), landed a substantial role in the BBC detective series ‘Ludwig‘. Six episodes were aired between September and October this year, and a further series is planned for 2025
• The 2024 Christmas card was sent along with a Newsletter to all FP’s on our email list. We now have all SIX previous Captains sending an annual message to former pupils.