This is not hard to guess.
But let’s make Hillhead school real by following the route many of its pupils walk to the school at the head of the hill, in the rain we’ve all seen too much of lately.
We start at the bottom of Scalesburn Road, below – and walk up. ‘Scalesburn’ simply has to be telling us about what went on in the burn at the time when Wick’s then burgeoning fishing industry will have provided a naming convention as well as fuelling new housebuilding.
The we get to the middle of Scalesburn Road, below – still climbing.
At the top of Scalesburn, below, we turn to look back down to Wick Harbour far below.
Then we turn along Willowbank, below, the road the school is on at Hillhead.
And there it is, below. Home. But not for long.
These photographs capture the sense of the community in which the pupils at Hillhead instinctively look out for each other.
They can be proud of that and of what they have achieved in a school that has looked after them well.
Note: we have parental permission to use the photographs we have been given by Hillhead school campaigners.
