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"path": "/2026/02/10/the-thread-about-st-leonards-public-school-ninety-years-of-remarkably-unremarkable-service/",
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"tags": [
"19th Century",
"20th Century",
"Education",
"Southside",
"Dumbiedykes",
"Edinburgh",
"Edinburgh School Board",
"Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh",
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"textContent": "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.",
"title": "The thread about St Leonard’s Public School; ninety years of remarkably unremarkable service"
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