As part of the celebrations marking 50 years of the Royal High School at Barnton, seven pop up banners have been created by the Edinburgh Royal High School Former Pupils Club and have been installed in the school foyer as a temporary exhibition. Read more in Popup Banners explanation.
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Royal High Barnton Anniversary in the News
As part of the celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of the move of the Royal High School from Regent Road to a brand new building at Barnton, two boys from the Primary School who were photographed by the Edinburgh Evening News when they were given a tour of the building under construction have been tracked […]
RHS Digital History Available for Sale
Digital History Pamphlet Please note the Gala Dinner date has been moved to 5th October 2018 We ran out of hardback histories a few years ago, and decided go for a modern alternative, a digital version., including digitised versions of the five previous histories, along with a wide variety of other topics, including ‘Talking Heads’, […]
Facebook, LinkedIn and Barnton’s 50th
Our Club now has a Facebook and a LinkedIn presence. Sharp eyed readers will have noted the icons on this site which link to these pages. Please join in and interact with these pages. If you are not already aware, you will see from our LinkedIn entry that the school have a program of events […]
Book Now for the 2018 Annual Dinner in London
Dear Royal High School Club in London committee members, We are returning to the historic RAF Club in Piccadilly for our Annual Dinner on Friday 16th March 2018 with Dinner served at 7.30 p.m. in the elegant Presidents’ Room. As usual we cordially invite former pupils of the Royal High School, their partners and guests […]
New Club President
Paul Fleming has officially taken over as President of the RHS Club in London. We had a handover ceremony at the Drinks Party on 21st November 2017, with short speeches from Fraser Wright and Paul Fleming (RHS 2003). Paul’s wife Gill was also at the party, Paul and Gill met when the were both pupils […]
Winter Drinks Photos now available
The photos from our recent Winter Drinks Party at the Iron Duke are now available to view on Flickr. Also photos from our 2006 Annual Dinner and Winter drinks have now been loaded onto Flickr too.
Plans for the old Royal High School Building
Today’s Guardian features a story about the attempts to build a luxury hotel on the old Royal High School building on Regent Road. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/09/developers-urbanist-hotels-famed-edinburgh-neoclassical-royal-high-school-luxury-hotel The article is followed by a lively debate in the comments.