Readers' Enquiries

Q James Hey is trying to get in touch with anyone who went to Longstone Primary School in 1947 and ended up having classes in the hall at Redhall with Mrs Lusk as our teacher.

The picture shows the class photo from the school in 1947 – James (back row, second from left) would love to hear from anyone in the picture.

Q Arthur Nicholson wants to know if anyone can shed some light on an Edinburgh curiosity he noticed when he was making up a quiz on Edinburgh clocks. He explains: "The clock tower on Register House in Princes Street has three faces with clocks on each. The easiest one to photograph was the one facing along Princes Street. When you look up at this face with the naked eye, all appears to be in order, but I used a telephoto lens to show only a close-up of the tower and clock face. When I looked at the resultant photo, it stood out like a sore thumb that this clock face has two twelves on it.

"The clock was provided in 1790 by a London company who were clockmakers to the King and it is hard to believe that this was purely a mistake."

Q John Simpson, now of Toronto, is looking for his friend Alec Robertson, who was born in March 1952 and who lived in Wardieburn.