Instalment seven of the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” series takes us to Gilmore Place Public School; a name likely to draw blank looks from most. That's not unsurprising as it's a building well hidden from passing view and a moniker that lasted but twenty years. But mention Darroch School and you will get a flicker of recognition from a certain generation of Edinburgher. Its story is not a simple one, in its time it has been home to over ten different schools! But its saga offers us a neat case study of the ebb and flow of secondary education in the city. It is also a happy story as it has bucked the trend of many of its contemporaries and avoided the fate of conversion into private flats. Instead it is now enjoying a well-earned educational and cultural renaissance.