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  "path": "/2026/04/15/educating-newhaven-the-thread-about-the-victoria-and-other-schools/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-15T05:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://threadinburgh.scot",
  "tags": [
    "17th Century",
    "18th Century",
    "19th Century",
    "20th Century",
    "Education",
    "Leith",
    "Newhaven",
    "Edinburgh",
    "Free Church",
    "Leith School Board",
    "School",
    "Schools",
    "Victorian"
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  "textContent": "When it closed its doors for the last time in 2022 the Victoria School in Newhaven was by far and away the oldest in the city still in public use. But this wasn't an end, it was merely the start of a new chapter in its long life. The old building soon re-opened as a community and heritage centre and - having finally outgrown the confines of its Victorian facilities - the school was moving to a new building just a few hundred meters away. Appropriately this was on land reclaimed from the sea, long the manner by which it had previously grown to meet the educational needs of Newhaven. Repeated extensions upon extensions resulted in a rather complicated building, and this thread will try and unpick those layers and relate them to their place in the building's history.",
  "title": "Educating Newhaven: the thread about the Victoria and other Schools"
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