EIS HEADQUARTERS – EIS 175 Anniversary

In 1886, the year the first full-time official of the Institute was appointed, a joint office with the Scottish Educational News was opened in South St Andrews Street, Edinburgh. Larger premises were later rented at 40 Princes Street and then 34 North Bridge. In 1920 number 47 Moray Place was purchased. Moray Place was designed by Gillespie Graham and built in the early part of the nineteenth century. The Institute now own numbers 46, 47 and 48 Moray Place.

"Strangers in this barren place Pause and wonder what I trace Be you high or be you low BILLS you’ll pay before you go" During the period when Moray Place served as a hospital, one patient scratched this warning onto the lead-glass windows

EIS 175 Anniversary

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Research, interviews and substantive writing:
Adi Bloom

Design and lay-out:
Stuart Cunningham and Paul Benzie

Additional writing and research:
EIS Comms Team and assorted staff members

Printed by:
Ivanhoe Caledonian, Seafield Edinburgh

Photography:
Graham Edwards, Mark Jackson, Elaine Livingston, Toby Long, Ian Marshall, Alan McCredie, Alan Richardson, Graham Riddell, Lenny Smith, Johnstone Syer, Alan Wylie

Thanks to the many former activists and officers who gave of their time to be interviewed and taken a stroll down memory lane. And of course a very special thanks to the EIS members who created this history through their activism and commitment to the cause of Scottish Education.