ROYAL HIGH

[Coney Island Baby]

I was delighted to be a Pict. The house badge was maroon in those days, maybe still is. Scots? Pah. Their house colour was a fruity light blue. The Britons were light green (yuk) and the Angles were royal blue.

Brits are red now-a-days, the closest to maroon. RULLLLLEEE BRI...

[Danny Wilde]

I am 6'5" and over 18 stone (was big at school too) so I am designed for rugby.

 

However, I hated rugby and told Dr Murray this.

 

To put it into a Mr Dingwall Maths equation

 

 

i8hibsh hates rugby = Dr Murray hated i8hibsh

 

Murray was there when I started in the early 70's. Dingwall too. Badger (Dewar), ...

 

Others from that time ..."Fingers" Paterson, Fifi, Doc Forsyth (now sadly deceased), Sam Leitch (think his wife killed him) , Weed Graham, Wee Mac, Dr McIssac, Pongo, Hook Hall ...

 

John Murray was part of that tradition of teachers who became part of the fabric of the school.

 

Edit: when I was there the Scots nation badge was green. Which upon reflection is a daft colour choice for Scots, but there you go.

[i8hibsh]

Murray was there when I started in the early 70's. Dingwall too. Badger (Dewar), ...

 

Others from that time ..."Fingers" Paterson, Fifi, Doc Forsyth (now sadly deceased), Sam Leitch (think his wife killed him) , Weed Graham, Wee Mac, Dr McIssac, Hook Hall ...

 

John Murray was part of that tradition of teachers who became part of the fabric of the school.

 

 

didn't know Dr forsyth was dead - that's sad.

 

weed graham? I remember a Ms (lesbian spelling) Graham who was a P.E teacher

 

Monsieur Patterson was a legend.

 

Did you have Mr Macefield? I got dragged out of class by my ear by him - you would NOT see that nowadays.

[heartsfc_fan]

When I was at school (5 years ago now) I used to swagger in later every day and not a word was said to me.

 

My sister is at the school now and if they are late the school sends a text message to the parent/guardian

[Danny Wilde]

didn't know Dr forsyth was dead - that's sad.

 

weed graham? I remember a Ms (lesbian spelling) Graham who was a P.E teacher

 

Monsieur Patterson was a legend.

 

Did you have Mr Macefield? I got dragged out of class by my ear by him - you would NOT see that nowadays.

 

 

Oh yes , I remember Macefield. And Paddy Thornton in English. And Stan Mowat in chemistry.

 

Was Miss Moss still doing physics ? Closest thing we had to a babe science teacher back then. Although Miss Bryden was cute in history (still remember the day she had to leave the class crying, we were so disruptive ... so bad behaviour aint nothing new in todays schools). And Tits Gray was a bit of a honey,

[Shapes]

I went to Tesco at about 1245pm last week. There was a big queue outside of RHS kids. I walked past them and into the shop. The woman on the door started yelling at me for jumping the queue and not taking a basket.

 

I told her I didn't need a basket as I was only in to grab my lunch quickly.

 

She told me every schoolkid needed to have a basket and I should go to the back of the queue for my lip.

 

Imagine her horror when I told her what age I was and offered my ID as proof.

 

Cow.

 

They do the same in the tescos in queensferry! I tend to avoid tescos at lunchtime and if i do I wander in waving my car keys and walking fast so they don't dare ask me to take a basket!

[grumpy rebus]

Murray was there when I started in the early 70's. Dingwall too. Badger (Dewar), ...

 

Others from that time ..."Fingers" Paterson, Fifi, Doc Forsyth (now sadly deceased), Sam Leitch (think his wife killed him) , Weed Graham, Wee Mac, Dr McIssac, Pongo, Hook Hall ...

 

John Murray was part of that tradition of teachers who became part of the fabric of the school.

 

Edit: when I was there the Scots nation badge was green. Which upon reflection is a daft colour choice for Scots, but there you go.

 

Ah the memories. I was there 78-83.

 

I actually met Badger a few years ago in George Street...... and he hadn't changed. Wonder if he ever got it on with Miss Urquhart!

 

Also met John Anderson (techy teacher) a few years back. He was horrified that the only think I remember from his classes was when he explained how to hotwire a car!!

 

Davie Dunlop and Anthea Gage still live together in morningside.

 

I'd forgotten all about John Murray, but remember him now. I spent a whole maths period ducking Dingwall's spit and watching Murray squeeze himself into his orange Fiat 128. He was fairly intimidating on the rugby pitch.

 

Any of the younger FPs remember Tom Bacarelli (sp) or Carol Smith. She was a little sh1t. Or "buzz" Campbell, the business studies teacher.

[i8hibsh]

Ah the memories. I was there 78-83.

 

I actually met Badger a few years ago in George Street...... and he hadn't changed. Wonder if he ever got it on with Miss Urquhart!

 

Also met John Anderson (techy teacher) a few years back. He was horrified that the only think I remember from his classes was when he explained how to hotwire a car!!

 

Davie Dunlop and Anthea Gage still live together in morningside.

 

I'd forgotten all about John Murray, but remember him now. I spent a whole maths period ducking Dingwall's spit and watching Murray squeeze himself into his orange Fiat 128. He was fairly intimidating on the rugby pitch.

 

Any of the younger FPs remember Tom Bacarelli (sp) or Carol Smith. She was a little sh1t. Or "buzz" Campbell, the business studies teacher.

 

I remember Scratchyerbelly

[frankblack]

I was there from '82.

 

No real excuses for being late as I lived in Barnton Park.

[i8hibsh]

I was there from '82.

 

No real excuses for being late as I lived in Barnton Park.

 

 

did you sneak in under the fence?

 

There was a ripped fence in Barnton Park

[grumpy rebus]

did you sneak in under the fence?

 

There was a ripped fence in Barnton Park

 

Made it a gate while I was there, but locked it when it knackered the rugby pitches

[CostaJambo]

Is Royal High still regarded as one of the best non fee-paying secondaries in Edinburgh? Had a good reputation in mid-eighties when I lived in D Mains.

[frankblack]

did you sneak in under the fence?

 

There was a ripped fence in Barnton Park

 

I was quite upset that they locked the gate from Barnton Park side just before I started. It did mean I'd have to walk up to the top of Barnton Park Avenue and in through the ripped fences.

 

They kept trying to repair the fence when I was there, but someone would cut another hole a few weeks later...

 

The excuse about protecting the Rugby pitches is a poor one. They had (and probably still have) a crap rugby team. They positively discouraged people playing football instead of the thugs game, and I had nothing to do with it. I think it was the complete disinterest in the game and deliberately walking in the opposite direction from the ball meant they lost interest in me at Rugby.

 

I remember one guy getting sent to the changing rooms at PE for doing a football style sliding tackle...

[grumpy rebus]

 

The excuse about protecting the Rugby pitches is a poor one. They had (and probably still have) a crap rugby team.

 

Not when was there. We regularly beat the private schools (StewMels, Heriots etc) and hardly ever lost to any of the other comprehensives.

 

Must havre just been the crap players that followed :whistling:

[i8hibsh]

I think Gillespies is top comp in Ed but RHS is second I think.

[Moriarty]

Not when was there. We regularly beat the private schools (StewMels, Heriots etc) and hardly ever lost to any of the other comprehensives.

 

Must havre just been the crap players that followed :whistling:

 

Nope we had a good team when I was there as well. The pitches were always torn up mind.

[speaker]

I went to Tesco at about 1245pm last week. There was a big queue outside of RHS kids. I walked past them and into the shop. The woman on the door started yelling at me for jumping the queue and not taking a basket.

 

I told her I didn't need a basket as I was only in to grab my lunch quickly.

 

She told me every schoolkid needed to have a basket and I should go to the back of the queue for my lip.

 

Imagine her horror when I told her what age I was and offered my ID as proof.

 

Cow.

 

 

haha..

 

What woman was it ? Used to work in there before i moved to Ye Olde Inn.

[Beverley]

I still pass it now and again when I go to visit my mum.

 

so that would be every day then when you go home from work

[i8hibsh]

Lol bev ur so march

[Boomstick]

haha..

 

What woman was it ? Used to work in there before i moved to Ye Olde Inn.

 

Blonde hair and hardly young is how I'd describe her but truth be told I've no idea.

 

You've probs served me in the inn before. Not in all that much but sometimes grab lunch with the gf.

[scott_jambo]

I didnt realise everyone on Kickback went to battyboy schools.

[Boomstick]

I didnt realise everyone on Kickback went to battyboy schools.

 

I went to a regular school.

 

It was called an academy though...

[Moriarty]

I didnt realise everyone on Kickback went to battyboy schools.

 

What school did you go to?

[BoJack Horseman]

I went to a regular school.

 

It was called an academy though...

 

Same.

[Guest C00l K1d]

BROUGHTON FTW

[bn jambo]

The Royal High School, A fine institution , Gretna green, the rocks, modern studies teachers spiked with acid, my mate Rab getting stabbed, fire works down the hall ways, the English teacher who was allegedly a porn star, Peter Peace the Bloody SFA linesman and shite maths teacher, Making baseball bats in tech because another school was waiting at the "hole in the wall" , giving maths teachers nervous breakdowns.

 

The young team have alot to live up to !

 

MUSIS REPUBLICA FLORET .

[Danny Wilde]

Anyone know this bloke from school, he's a Jambo so might even be a JKB'r...

 

Interview: Nick Rhys, actor, River City

http://www.scotsman....p?articlepage=2

He's no longer simply Nick the former Royal High pupil, drifting in and out of jobs like the one at the Caley or the Haymarket caf? or - maybe worst of all - the mundane job at the Scottish Traffic Area offices in Lady Lawson Street dealing with vehicle licences.

 

Instead the 28-year-old is about to make his first appearance on the nation's television screens in a gritty soap opera storyline that no other has so far dared to attempt.

...

Sporty and athletic, he was more prone to hitting the football pitch or the basketball court than dreaming of treading the boards in Macbeth, the role he now admits he'd love to get his teeth into.

 

"I was mad about sport," he says. "I grew up in Roseburn. I could see Tynecastle every day so I'm 100 per cent Hearts."

 

Add to the RHS's roll af actors over the years. Ian Charleson (Chariots of Fire...), David Robb (The Crow Road...), John McGlynn (All creatures Great And Small...)

Not forgetting Ronnie Corbett in the comedy sphere.