St Trinnean's School
St Trinnean's was a progressive education, progressive girls' school in Edinburgh. It was founded in 1922 by its headmistress, Catherine Fraser Lee, who followed the Dalton Plan so that pupils could study what they wished and there was no homework. It was located at 10, Palmerston Road – the former home of Horatius Bonar – a minister and prodigious hymn writer. In 1925, it relocated to the grand mansion of St Leonard's Hall which had been built for the wealthy publisher, Thomas Nelson (1822–1892), Thomas Nelson. In 1929, it had 122 day school, day children and 38 boarding school, boarders – pupils who lived at the school. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, the school evacuated to New Gala House – a mansion in Galashiels. Its pupils at that time included Jewish refugees of the ''Kindertransport''. After the war, the school closed when Miss Fraser Lee retired in 1946. The school uniform was a pale blue gymslip, tunic with fawn-coloured stockings and c ...
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