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  "path": "/2026/02/10/the-thread-about-st-leonards-public-school-ninety-years-of-remarkably-unremarkable-service/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-10T07:15:00.000Z",
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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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