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Tag: Bonaly primary school

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 10, 2026

the ‘backward reader’

Categories: Family history, Progress hardly broke its stride, This is Not yesterdayTags: backwards, Bonaly, Bonaly primary school, Elephant child, Peter John Gordon
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 10, 2026

a sum and a story

To play this short film please click here. Credits: Moving Image Archive and Edwyn Collins singing ‘The heart is a foolish little thing’

Categories: Omphalos films, Time passes, Two culturesTags: Bonaly primary school, childhood, Edwyn Collins, Firrhill High School, From Scotland with Love, loss, love, Omphalos films, Peter Scott-Gordon, rain-faded note, Rebel antiquary, The Rebel antiquary, two cultures
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 3, 2026

CLAN HOUSE

I recently asked my mother this: ‘Mum, Recently when watching Suzie Fletcher, the leather restorer, on BBC Repair Shop I found my thoughts returning to childhood when you took us … Continue reading CLAN HOUSE

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Time passesTags: Bonaly, Bonaly primary school, childhood, cholera, CLAN House, Colinton, Edinburgh, Firrhill High School, Fountain Bridge, Fountainbridge, Grove Street, infant mortality, Margaret Scott, Noel Fyfe, Peter John Gordon, Scotland, The Enchanted Capital of Scotland, Thorburn Manor
Peter Scott-Gordon: gardener, artist, retired doctor: peter@holeousia.com
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