Jimmy’s: the thread about the school on St Leonard’s Crag

St Leonard's Crag is the romantic sounding name for a quarried-out promontory where Holyrood Park meets the old district of St Leonard's. Perched atop it is a handsome old building whose striking feature is a grand corner tower on which regular listeners with a keen eye will spot the letters "ESB "; a give-away that this was once a school. But not just any school, it was the last that would be designed and built by the Edinburgh School Board and one that was strikingly different from what had come before it. This is the former James Clark School- better known locally as "Jimmy's".