Gillespie’s School photographs

Selected photographs and newspaper cuttings

This page features selected photographs and newspaper cuttings from the JGTrust Alumni archive. Many more photographs of school captains, school duxes, prefects, head teachers, members of staff, examples of classwork, school trips etc. can be found in the pages of the School Magazines from 1913 to 1973. Any donations or scans of school-related photographs would be very much appreciated.

c. 1900 photos from Gillespie’s School at Gillespie Crescent
JG School building 1870-1914
JG Standard Classroom
JG Classrooms
JG Kindergarden
JG Fan Drill
JG Music & Drawing rooms
JG Sewing room & ordinary classroom
JG Games and tambourine class
JG Maypole dance
JG Gallery exercises
JG Skipping rope and garland drill
JG Military drill exercise

1930 or 1931 class photo (from Janice Dewar 1949-62 –
her mother Jessie Elizabeth More, b. 1916 in second back row, left end)
1931 Helen (12) and Betty (10) Harper with dated postcard (from Elaine Sandeman)
1933-34 Junior classes
1936-37 3rd form class
1937 Miss Kissock’s primary class
1937-38 4th form class with names
1943 Hockey XI
1949-50 P1 Miss Kissock’s class (from Janice Dewar – back row, middle)
1950-51 P2 Miss Mackay’s class (from Janice Dewar – back row, third form right)
1951-52 [unknown] Primary class with names (from Pat Horn (Chisholm))
1954-55 PF1 with names (from Pat Horn)
1954-55 Primary 2
1955 Edinburgh West End tram stop
1956 Miss Andrew Retires (from Maggie Shearer)
1956 (4 April) Miss Andrew Honoured
1957 Founder’s Day
1959 or 1960 school drama
1959 Usher Hall Concert (from Pat Horn)
1960s class photo (year unknown)
1960 Usher Hall Concert (from Pat Horn)
1961 Usher Hall Concert (from Pat Horn)
1962 Founder’s Day (from Pat Horn)
1964-65 P7 Prefects (from Ann Landels [front centre])
1965 P7 in Primary grounds with teacher Miss Wilma Weir (from Ann Landels)
1965 Primary school huts (from Ann Landels)
1966 Royal visit to swimming pool (from Ann Landels)
1966-67 School prefects with Miss McIver
1966-2016 School campus aerial photograph with previous school building in top right hand corner
1967-68 P5 Class Photo (from Fiona MacDonald (Fulton))
1967-68 1G Class Photo (from Fiona M Donaldson)
1967-68 3L1 Class Photo (from Ann Landels)
1971-72 5G informal photo with signatures (from Fiona M Donaldson)
1971-72 5R informal photo with signatures (from Fiona M Donaldson)
1971-72 5S informal photo with signatures (from Fiona M Donaldson)
1971-72 5W informal photo with signatures (from Fiona M Donaldson)
1972-73 6th Year Photo (from Fiona M Donaldson)
1972-73 1S Class Photo with names (from Jacqueline Clarkson)
1973-74 2S Class Photo with names (from Jacqueline Clarkson)
1973-74 6th Year Photo (from Sheila Capewell (Wragg))
1973 6th Year pupils (from 1973 school magazine)
1974 Photographic Society with Mr McKenzie (from Elaine Sandeman)
1975-76 6th Year Photo with names (from Margaret Glenton)
1977 Tom Sommerville’s Retirement party (from Fiona M Donaldson)
1979-80 1G2 Class Photo (from Lynne Arnot (McKenna))
1984-85 6th Year Photo with names
1993 ‘Knife-Edge’ article
1993 Pushkin Prizewinners
1993 (August) NAYO article
1996 Reunion Photo with names ?50th Anniversary
2019 Classical guitar group (May)
2019 Christmas Concert, (2nd image), Usher Hall