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List of names as written	Various modes of spelling	Authorities for spelling	Situation	Description remarks
ORIGINAL RAGGED INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS	Original Ragged Industrial Schools Original Ragged Industrial Schools Original Industrial School	Mr. Todd Teacher Report of Schools P. O. [Post Office] Directory		[Situation] A little West of the New College (Free Church) These schools occupy two handsome & well constructed buildings 3 stories high. One of these buildings was built and designed for the Tolbooth Parish School but through some litigation it could not be occupied for the intended purpose. One of the buildings is occupied as a boys school which are taught by three masters. This school contains at present 110 boys who receive food &, clothing & education in the School and are also taught habits of Industry by employing them part of each day at mechanical works for which there are mechanics workshops in the building with mechanics to teach the boys. The other building is occupied by the female and infant department & are taught by two female teachers & attended by 86 scholars who are taught on the same liberal principle as the boys school and the girls are taught sewing, washing &c there are none of the Scholars lodged in the schools, but a domitory is just now being fitted for the accommodation of about 30 girls orphans who are at present lodged at the expense of the school association

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Parish of the City of Edinburgh

This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 35
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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