I ve had an early taste of freedom with the Scots – and it was sweet
Britain’s cities return to life from next week – and what they offer is exactly what our locked-down souls crave, says Anna Hart
13 May 2021 • 11:06am
When Edinburgh opened up last week, even the residents were on holiday
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The week before last, I had an accidental city break in Edinburgh. It was accidental not because I didn’t mean to travel to Scotland, but because I did not expect it to feel remotely like a break. I had travelled north to Newcastle for the funeral of my Great Uncle Harry, who had lived a long and full life as an engineer and photographer. Uncle Harry was two weeks shy of his 100th birthday. The Queen’s card arrived regardless; Her Majesty is punctual when it comes to post. Sadly, the Irish side of the family were still unable to travel and attend, but I hope we gave Uncle Harry a respectable send-off, close to maximum capacity at 25 mourners. I am
The most obvious legacies from the past at Hockaday are the Memorial Rooms the Great Hall, the Memorial Dining Room, and a small library room antique-furnished shrines from the Greenville Avenue campus now encased in the ultra-modem Welch Road structure. The rooms were not used much by students when I was there. Teas were held in the Great Hall, and the student council was allowed lunch in the dining room once a week, but the rooms had an off-limits museum quality that discouraged curling up in a wing chair to finish reading
Anna Karenina. And to me, who at 25 was not untouched by the iconoclasm of the ’60s and who knew so little of Hockaday’s tradition, they seemed an enormous waste of money and space.
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