Frederick Street Primary School roof playground

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Frederick Street Primary School roof playground

A photograph showing school children on the roof top playground of Frederick Street Primary School in around 1907.

This was one of very few such playgrounds in the city, perhaps one of only two. The Central School on Schoolhill also had a comparable, roof-top playground for at least some of its history.

Frederick Street School opened in 1905 and had a role of 332 infants and 764 senior/junior pupils. The unusual, elevated playground measured 750 square feet.

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"You used to get the belt for speaking in class, boys and girls both. If you were late for class you would be belted in front of the other pupils.

I got the belt because I had been held up by the gym teacher telling me I was in the football team. I was so pleased I was in the team I was whistling in the corridor. I got belted for that as well."

"I was left handed, it was not encouraged."

(Memories of school days from the Torry Reminiscence Group.)

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