Galashiels Academy

A Memory of Galashiels.

I went to Galashiels Academy when it was on the Melrose Road. There was a big horse-chestnut in the front playground . There was a tree covered slope leading down from the school to the gym and cookhouse, near the railway. The gym had been the original stable block, I suppose. The cookhouse where people got school lunches served up by Mrs Fairbairn, the janitor's wife, was a building with a tin roof, across the yard from the gym. The janitor lived in the lodge. I wonder if there are still eagles on the gate posts, and a stone owl in the back garden? The school motto was about eagles rising up, I think. The headmaster was Mr Wylie, who was succeeded by Mr Forbes. The teaching was excellent.

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