The thread about St Leonard’s Public School; ninety years of remarkably unremarkable service
Threadinburgh [Unofficial]
February 10, 2026
Part eight of the "Lost School Boards" series pays a visit to St Leonard's Public School, one of which no trace now remains and that was thoroughly removed from the map in a 1980s redevelopment scheme. A building that was criticised for most of its life for being architecturally underwhelming and offering a dark and cramped site, it nevertheless provided ninety years of educational service to the Southside, most remarkable for how unremarkable a record that it left behind.
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