When school closed in 2010, we were very fortunate to be able to save a number of significant items relative to school history. Initially these were stored in a secure, paid storage facility for a few years, until a very generous gesture was received from St. George’s School, to relocate the St. Margaret’s School archive to a small cupboard location at St. George’s, Garscube Terrace, Edinburgh. A number of former pupils and staff have visited the original archive over past years, and it was delightful to see joy in people’s faces, as they relived happy times, through memories of uniform, photographs, Chronicles/Newsletters, trophies and much more. The archive until recently, looked a bit like this – safe and secure, but not very easy to view/find items:
In 2025, St. George’s extended their own school archive, and as part of this development, a new location for the St. Margaret’s archive has very kindly been created for us, in a side-room. It is early days, and the new space is still being developed, but we wanted to ensure that you are informed of plans and progress. A few fps (Jane Forbes, Jill Bryce, Cecile Redmond) met at St George’s in November 2025 to start the process of developing the new space, with support of St. George’s archivist, Margaret Imlah. The hope is that once completed, the new archive location will enable you, our former pupils and staff, to visit and view the contents, at your leisure. So far, shelving units have been purchased and installed, at a cost of £335 (paid for from remnants of the FP Association funds, which are also used to maintain this website). The archive contents are in the process of being sorted and arranged on the new shelves, so that the contents will become self explanatory for visitors, and items should be much easier to locate in the future. Here are a few photos of the work to date:
We plan to visit again in January 2026 to progress the development work. Once complete, we will update you here, and we will share details of how and when you can visit. Watch this space – more coming soon…… Our sincere thanks go to to St. George’s School for their continued support.