My story of the "absolutely scandalous" public housing at Lochinvar Camp: threadinburgh.scot/2025/03/05/t...
threadinburgh.scot“Absolutely Scandalous”: the thread about Wardie Playing Fields and the Lochinvar CampWardie Playing Fields. Fourteen acres of windswept turf in the north of Edinburgh where generations of school children have loved or loathed muddy games of football, sports days and the dreaded …
[October 21st, 1946] A tragic fire at Lochinvar Camp occurs. Two young Edinburgh children, John and Ann Watson, died when their Nissen hut caught fire. Despite heroic rescue efforts by neighbors and police, the intense heat made it impossible to save them.
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