Summer's Gone

  ‘Summer Has Gone’ 

I have tidings for you,

The stag bells;

Winter pours;

Summer has gone

Wind is high and cold;

The sun is low;

Its course is short;

The sea runs strongly…

Cold has seized

The wings of birds;

Season of ice.

These are my tidings

       (Early Irish Lyrics, Oxford 1956)

Top Playground former Hunters Tryst School
 (Photograph 9 September, 2012)

The above photograph is of the remains of the playground at the former Hunters Tryst School; below is a photograph of the pupils who helped Hunters Tryst School win the Shennan Banner and the Girls' Shield at the 1967 Edinburgh Inter-scholastics Athletics Championships. 

The two photographs separated by forty five years make for an interesting contrast.

Do ghosts from the past flit and skip and run and shout and laugh? Probably not.

Hunters Tryst Primary School

Winners of The Shennan Banner and Girls' Shield, 1967 Edinburgh Schools' Interscholastics 

Back Row: Martin McAlpine Terry Workman Stephen Drysdale Meinhart Sutherland John Whyte Guy Henderson Martin Kidd

Third Row: Alan Fisher Patricia? Ann Breslin Jaqueline Porteous Carol Clement Eileen Evelyn Geoff Hunter Elaine Martin Ronnie Smith

Second Row: Joyce Colbron Colin Benson Linda Smart Graeme McKiernan Margaret Rutherford Peter Hoffmann Norma Fraser David Lines

Front Row: Susan Le Grice Marjory Menzies Doreen Rutherford Linda Littlejohn