#usher — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #usher, aggregated by home.social.
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Chris Brown and Usher’s tour branded ‘disgusting’ after simulating explicit sex on stage
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Chris Brown and Usher’s tour branded ‘disgusting’ after simulating explicit sex on stage
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"You Make Me Wanna..." is a song by American singer #Usher. The song was released on August 5, 1997, by #LaFaceRecords and #AristaRecords as the lead single from his second studio album, #MyWay (1997). He and #ManuelSeal wrote the song with its producer #JermaineDupri. An #RAndB, #soul and #pop song in #CMinor, it makes use of #acousticGuitar, #hihat and #bell instrumentation. The lyrics focus on a #loveTriangle relationship.
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"You Make Me Wanna..." is a song by American singer #Usher. The song was released on August 5, 1997, by #LaFaceRecords and #AristaRecords as the lead single from his second studio album, #MyWay (1997). He and #ManuelSeal wrote the song with its producer #JermaineDupri. An #RAndB, #soul and #pop song in #CMinor, it makes use of #acousticGuitar, #hihat and #bell instrumentation. The lyrics focus on a #loveTriangle relationship.
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𝗨𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗶𝗸 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝘂𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗷 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻
Usher ontkent dat hij tijdens zijn concert in New Jersey een dubbelganger heeft gebruikt. Op sociale media gingen na zijn optreden met Chris Brown beelden rond waardoor fans twijfelden of de Amerikaanse zanger zelf op het podium stond. Dat meldt onder meer entertainmentsite E! News.
https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/5637129/usher-ontkent-gebruik-van-dubbelganger-bij-optreden
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𝗨𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗶𝗸 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝘂𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗷 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻
Usher ontkent dat hij tijdens zijn concert in New Jersey een dubbelganger heeft gebruikt. Op sociale media gingen na zijn optreden met Chris Brown beelden rond waardoor fans twijfelden of de Amerikaanse zanger zelf op het podium stond. Dat meldt onder meer entertainmentsite E! News.
https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/5637129/usher-ontkent-gebruik-van-dubbelganger-bij-optreden
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87-year-old Houston Astros usher retires from dream job https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/772800/ #Astros #Baseball #DiamondClub #HoustonAstros #MLB #Usher
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You Make Me Wanna 💄
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You Make Me Wanna 💄
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Usher's "U Remind Me" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 7, 2001 and spent four weeks at the top of the chart.
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Usher's "U Remind Me" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 7, 2001 and spent four weeks at the top of the chart.
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Jury Says Chris Brown Owes Housekeeper $13 Million for Disfigurement in Dog Mauling Attack
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Jury Says Chris Brown Owes Housekeeper $13 Million for Disfigurement in Dog Mauling Attack
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You Make Me Wanna 🍚
#Usher
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You Make Me Wanna 🍚
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https://www.wacoca.com/videos/3253631/global-beauties/ Tony Awards 2026 red carpet: Pink, Aubrey Plaza, Daniel Radcliffe, Rose Byrne and more ##EntertainmentNews #2026TonyAwards #AubreyPlaza #AubreyPlazaPregnant #celeb #CelebNews #Celebrity #CelebrityGossip #CelebrityNews #DanielRadcliffe #entertainment #Fashion #gossip #JohnLithgow #JuneSquibb #LeaMichelle #MeghanTheeStallion #NEWS #PageSix #PageSixStyle #PageSixTv #Pink #PopCulture #RoseByrne #TonyAwards #TonyAwards2026 #TonyAwards2026RedCarpet #usher #ローズ・バーン
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https://www.wacoca.com/videos/3253631/global-beauties/ Tony Awards 2026 red carpet: Pink, Aubrey Plaza, Daniel Radcliffe, Rose Byrne and more ##EntertainmentNews #2026TonyAwards #AubreyPlaza #AubreyPlazaPregnant #celeb #CelebNews #Celebrity #CelebrityGossip #CelebrityNews #DanielRadcliffe #entertainment #Fashion #gossip #JohnLithgow #JuneSquibb #LeaMichelle #MeghanTheeStallion #NEWS #PageSix #PageSixStyle #PageSixTv #Pink #PopCulture #RoseByrne #TonyAwards #TonyAwards2026 #TonyAwards2026RedCarpet #usher #ローズ・バーン
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"You Make Me Wanna..." is a song by American singer #Usher. The song was released on August 5, 1997, by #LaFaceRecords and #AristaRecords as the lead single from his second studio album, #MyWay (1997). He and #ManuelSeal wrote the song with its producer #JermaineDupri. An #RAndB, #soul and #pop song in #CMinor, it makes use of #acousticGuitar, #hihat and #bell instrumentation. The lyrics focus on a #loveTriangle relationship.
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"You Make Me Wanna..." is a song by American singer #Usher. The song was released on August 5, 1997, by #LaFaceRecords and #AristaRecords as the lead single from his second studio album, #MyWay (1997). He and #ManuelSeal wrote the song with its producer #JermaineDupri. An #RAndB, #soul and #pop song in #CMinor, it makes use of #acousticGuitar, #hihat and #bell instrumentation. The lyrics focus on a #loveTriangle relationship.
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You Make Me Wanna 🍽
#Usher
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You Make Me Wanna 🍽
#Usher
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creates semantic nodes and clusters #USHER advanced-search.aepiot.com/advanced-sea... AÉPIOT: INDEPENDENT SEMANTIC WEB 4.0 INFRASTRUCTURE (EST. 2009): allgraph.ro
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The Sweetest Photos of Usher and His Wife, Jennifer Goicoechea
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The Sweetest Photos of Usher and His Wife, Jennifer Goicoechea
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Entdecken Sie den Text des Liedes “I Don't Mind” von Usher
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Scopri il testo della canzone “U Got It Bad” di Usher
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Confira a letra da música “U Got It Bad” de Usher
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Ver la letra de la canción “Yeah!” de Usher
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See the lyrics for the song “Climax” by Usher
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Lyrics for the song “Confessions Part II” by Usher
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Entdecken Sie den Text des Liedes “Climax” von Usher
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Testo della canzone “I Don't Mind” di Usher
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Letra de la canción “Burn” de Usher
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Sehen Sie den Text des Liedes “Yeah!” von Usher
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Usher and Chris Brown Announce Dates for Co-Headlining ‘R&B Tour’
#Variety #News #ChrisBrown #Usherhttps://variety.com/2026/music/news/usher-chris-brown-tour-dates-1236721467/
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Usher and Chris Brown Announce Dates for Co-Headlining ‘R&B Tour’
#Variety #News #ChrisBrown #Usherhttps://variety.com/2026/music/news/usher-chris-brown-tour-dates-1236721467/
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You Make Me Wanna 🍚
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You Make Me Wanna 🍚
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𝗨𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗴𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗱𝗱𝘆 𝗻𝗮 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗵𝗲𝗯 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘃𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗺
Zanger Usher heeft voor het eerst uitgebreid gereageerd op de beschuldigingen tegen Sean 'Diddy' Combs. In een interview laat hij weten zelf geen negatieve ervaringen te hebben gehad met Diddy, die afgelopen jaar werd veroordeeld voor het aanzetten tot prostitutie. Zo meldt Variety.
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Usher Says Diddy Has Been “Misrepresented”: “I Don’t Have Anything Negative to Say About Sean Combs”
#Music #MusicNews #Diddy #Seancombs #Usherhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/usher-diddy-misrepresented-1236546806/
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Usher Says Diddy ‘Has Been Misrepresented’ After Sex Trafficking Trial: ‘Certain People Are Prosecuted’ and ‘Not Recognized for the Greatness They Offer’
#Variety #News #Diddy #SeanCombs #Usherhttps://variety.com/2026/music/news/usher-defends-diddy-1236698941/
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Usher Says He Doesn't Have Anything 'Negative' to Say About Diddy While Praising the Producer's 'Valuable Contributions'
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You Can’t Fight City Hall! The thread about Lothian Road Public School
Preamble. The schools of the “School Board” era of public education (those built 1872-1918) hold a particular fascination for me, one most profound where they have been “deconsecrated” and are either no longer in use as schools or have disappeared entirely. This thread began as a couple of lines for my own notes about the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” but soon snowballed into an alphabetical deep-dive into each.
Before the Education (Scotland) Act 1872, which created the Edinburgh School Board and kick-started a building programme of new schools, the west end of the city was served by church-run schools on Cambridge Street by St John’s Episcopal Church and in halls behind the Lothian Road United Presbyterian Church (this latter building would much later become the Filmhouse cinema). They were joined in 1862 when the Free Church of Scotland established a school for 270 children on Riego Street as a mission of Free St Cuthbert’s and Free Greyfriars‘ churches.
The Riego Street School, a photograph taken in 1914 by J. R. Hamilton of the Edinburgh Photographic Society by which time it was in use as a mission hall. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.After its initial flurry of construction to replace the worst of the schools it had inherited and fill gaps in provision, the School Board turned its attention to the Lothian Road area and acquired a tiny, undeveloped plot extending to only a quarter of an acre at the junction of Grindlay and Cambridge Streets. This land was feud from The Grindlay Trust for £2046 (for whom Grindlay Street is named) who maintained the rights to final approval of any designs. This new Lothian Road Public School was proposed in tandem with Canonmills Public School and at 800 pupils was of a capacity but with a density of 0.77 pupils per metre square it would be the most congested school that the Board would build.
Comparison of the 1849 and 1893 OS Town Plans of Edinburgh for Lothian Road, move the slider to compare. These show in 1849 two small church schools (an Episcopal School in the top right and a United Presbyterian School middle bottom) and in 1893 the Lothian Road Public School in the centre of the image, to the right of the open street square. On the right of the 1893 map are the School Board Offices on Castle Terrace. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandPlans by the Board’s architect Robert Wilson were approved in March 1879 and generally followed the Collegiate Gothic styling then in favour, looking very much like a truncated version of its peer at Canonmills but raised to a height of three storeys to maximise the limited space available. An unusual deviation however was a French-style tower with louvred windows on the principal (western) façade adjoining the neighbouring tenement on Grindlay Street. The boys’ entrance was at its base, girls and infants having a separate entrance on Cambridge Street. The ground floor accommodated the infant department in a large central classroom (42 feet by 27 feet) with three smaller rooms leading off of it. The first and second floors were for the older pupils, again each following the same arrangement as the ground floor. To the rear of the school were two rather small playgrounds, one each for boys and girls.
Lothian Road Public School, looking towards the Castle. The striped globe-shaped objects in the middle distance below the Castle are on the roofline of the Synod Hall on Castle Terrace. City of Edinburgh Council Architectural Drawings and Photographs via Trove.Scot, DP 102382Construction began in late June 1879, the accepted estimate for construction being £5,891 19s 6d (c. £640k in 2026). A site accident on 15th August 1879 injured joiner Alexander Glass when a crane failed and dropped an iron beam on his foot, part of which had to be amputated at the Royal Infirmary as a result. After this, work proceeded steadily and the new school school opened on 6th September 1880, the school on Victoria Terrace (an older building inherited from the Heriot Trust) closing as a consequence. The total cost including purchasing the site came out at £7,333 17s (c. £795k in 2026). As built the capacity was 825 pupils (280 infants and 545 juveniles) with a staff comprising the headmaster, infant mistress, a first assistant teacher and eight assistant teachers. They were supported by a sewing mistress, a singing master and twelve pupil teachers (older children who were remaining in education beyond the mandatory leaving age and who helped in monitoring and conveying the lessons to younger children). The school soon proved to be one of the top performers (helped in a large part because of the socio-economic circumstances of its neighbourhood) and in 1882 the staff were given a 15 percent salary increase on account of reaching the first class tier of the Board’s ranking system.
From the very beginning Continuation Classes (evening school for adults) were part of the school’s offering, with Advanced Classes “for young men” in Latin, grammar and English composition; basic elementary subjects and also more vocational ones such as bookkeeping, shorthand and commercial geography. Architectural and mechanical drawing joined the syllabus in 1885 and by 1889 advanced level mechanics and mathematics were also being taught. In 1898 there were 350 enrolled for continuation schooling with an average attendance of 302. Technical classes in confectionery were started by the Master Bakers of Edinburgh and Leith in 1903 “with a view to raising the standard of fancy baking in the district.”
A street artist at work on the pavement island outside Lothian Road Public School in 1903, while a crowd looks on. The sign on the lamp post reads “Cars Stop“, indicating that this was a passenger platform for the city’s cable tramway.In 1887, 909 scholars from Lothian Road were presented for examination, suggesting the school was more than 10% over capacity, and before the Scotch Education Department reduced class sizes there were up to 1,000 learners crammed in. The school was a victim of its own success, having the highest attendance rate in the city meaning it was always full. A janitor’s house was added in 1889 at a cost of £223, an extra play shed for the boys in 1892 and new classrooms for drawing and cookery in 1893 at a cost of £1,000.
A fire in March 1891, the result of a fireplace in a classroom causing surrounding woodwork to overheat, proved to be “of a trifling nature” and was extinguished by the staff and janitor before the fire brigade could arrive. Headmaster George Robertson, who had been in charge since opening, died in March 1893. His newspaper obituary recalled him as “a man of a kindly and courteous disposition, which secured for him cordial relations with his staff” and one who had cut his educational teeth in some of the city’s poorest quarters. He had started his career in the school of the Chalmers Territorial Free Church in the West Port of which he was also in the congregation and a deacon (church civic officer). The teachers and a deputation of the schoolchildren attended his funeral at the Grange Cemetery.
Grave marker of George Robertson (1849-93), his infant son John (1875-76) and his wives Anne Mullay (1846-75) and Christina Barclay Robertson (1849-1918). Photo credit Charlie via Findagrave.comThe school was only sixteen years old when ominous clouds began to form on its horizon: in 1896 its site was mooted as one of a number of potential locations for a new civic music hall. The City Hall, as it was then known, was the result of a gift to the city by Andrew Usher (1826-98) who’s family had made a vast fortune in brewing that he had made even larger through perfecting the process of blending Scotch Whisky: revolutionising the product, the industry and a nation’s drinking habits. His endowment was worth £100,000 (about £12 million in 2026) and trustees invested it until an appropriate site could be found.
Barrels of Andrew Usher’s “OVG” (Old Vatted Glenlivet) blended whisky in one of his bonds at St Leonards. This was the first mass-market blended whisky.A longlist of twelve sites was initially proposed including Princes Street Gardens, Melville Street, Atholl Crescent, opposite St Giles Cathedral on the High Street, Castle Terrace, Chambers Street, Port Hopetoun Basin, the junction of George and Castle Streets and – most controversially – the Meadows. London architect Alfred Waterhouse was engaged to survey each and draw up a shortlist of five, with Atholl Crescent being the favoured option.
Batholomew map, 1898, showing some of the proposed locations for the Usher Hall. A site on Atholl Crescent, to the west of these, was first favoured before attention moved to the area between Lothian Road and Castle Terrace (to the left of the middle of the three plots highlighted above.) Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.Plans changed in 1900 however when the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland merged with the Free Church of Scotland and the former’s Synod Hall on Castle Terrace was now surplus to requirements. In an ironic twist, this large venue was actually first built as an entertainments hall but quickly failed as a commercial venture. The Town Council leapt at the chance to acquire it with a view that it might somehow be a good site for the hall, or might even be re-purposed as it.
The Synod Hall from West Princes Street Gardens. City of Edinburgh Council Architectural Drawings and Photographs via Trove.Scot SC2575722Matters proceeded slowly for the next few years while the Town Council tried to acquire further adjacent land; it spent £15,000 buying plots totalling 2,719 square yards, on top of the 2,327 of the hall. In 1903 the Town Clerk, Thomas Hunter, was asked report “on the whole muddle” and set out options for the potential use of the Synod Hall site. Things were getting complicated by the fact the successor United Free Church were apparently attempting to buy the building back and had verbally offered the Corporation £40,000 for it ( the latter having paid just £25,000 a few years earlier). Proponents of the Synod Hall site argued it would be a less expensive proposition than the alternatives and sited facing the Castle it made for an appropriately grand backdrop. Detractors were quick to point out that the new hall proposed for that site would have 2,400 seats, just 300 more than the building it was proposed to demolish and replace!
While matters remained unresolved, the idea of siting what would become The Usher Hall in the vicinity of Castle Terrace had by now crystallised in the minds of the Town Council and their gaze soon shifted to the side of the block that faced on to Lothian Road. If the site of Lothian Road School was combined with the neighbouring tenements and added to the Council’s existing landholding, this gave a combined site of 4,221 square yards without demolishing the Synod hall and in 1904 firm plans were put in front of the Town Council recommending securing the school property.
A complication remained however in that the local authority did not possess the school – it remained the property of the School Board which was independent from the Town Council. An informal approach to the Board had been rebuffed and there was an unwillingness to resort to powers of compulsory purchase. Unfortunately Lord Provost Sir Robert Cranston then went and put his foot in it by letting it be known that the school buildings had been condemned by the Scotch Education Department: the implication being they would thus be easy to acquire, He was rebuked in a most public manner by the Board in a statement published by the Evening News. The Lord Provost wrote to the Board’s chair, the redoubtable Flora Stevenson, to set the matter straight.
Advert taken out by the School Board in response to the Lord Provost’s assertions that Lothian Road School had been condemned by the Scotch Education Department. Edinburgh Evening News, 13th February 1905.A meeting was convened behind close doors between senior representatives from both sides and soon ironed things out. The Board let it be known they would give up the school for a “fair price” and sufficient land for a replacement school. They hoped to get ground at Lady Lawson Street, the site of the city’s cattle market which was to be relocated, however this was acquired instead by the Education Department for the College of Art.
Once again the scheme stalled, but for Lothian Road Public School it remained business as usual. On account of its central location it remained a favoured venue for a number of organisations. From 1906 to 1910 it was used by the Edinburgh Esperanto Society for meetings and lessons, the Board charging only a nominal rent so as to help encourage that language. A similar privilege was given to the Celtic Union who began Gaelic language evening classes, transferring them from the Outlook Tower on Castlehill whose facilities they had outgrown. It was the Union’s intention to prove there was a public appetite for the language in order that the Board might formally adopt them for its own programme. This plan quickly came to fruition and from 1908 these classes transferred to the School Board’s Continuation curriculum and were run from Gilmore Place Public School. (Coincidentally, this latter building remains in education use as an annexe of James Gillespie’s High School and has recently become a centre for its Gaelic Medium Education learning.)
On June 15th 1909 a meeting was held at the school by “a few far-sighted ladies and sympathetic mothers” which formed the committee to establish the Girl Guiding movement in the city. In July that year a concert was held by the senior pupils of the school to celebrate the attendance records of Janet Gray, Nettie Bee, Janet Taylor and Jane Bogue who all had achieved a perfect attendance record in their seven years at the school; a combined total of twenty-eight years without a day missed. The Board presented medals to the girls and commended the headmaster and his staff. The takings from the concert were to be “devoted to the purchase of pictures with which to adorn the walls” of the school.
An Edinburgh School Board perfect attendance medal first issued in 1908-09 to Robert McKinlay of London Street School. Picture via Lockdale’s Auctioneers and Valuers, sale lot from 2024.Time was running short for the school however. It was now fourteen years after Usher’s gift to the city (and twelve after his death) and pressure was mounting to finally get his hall built. Finally on March 21st 1910 a report was submitted to the Lord Provost’s Committee of the Town Council recommending that it should be built on the Lothian Road site that included the footprint of the school. This was approved and at a closed meeting the following day the School Board agreed to its sale for £8,500 plus a new site at the City Slaughterhouse (the Killin’ Hoose) at Fountainbridge, which was about to be relocated to Slateford. The Board were initially offered one and a quarter acres but stuck to their guns that they would not settle for less than two – in the end they accepted one and three-quarters plus two buildings to convert into a janitor’s house. This still left the Board an estimated deficit of £17,000 (about £1.7 million in 2026) for the replacement, however they felt “willing to do all in their power to further the important scheme“.
Edinburgh Evening News, 7th January 1905 Shaded properties were those to be acquired for the final Usher Hall scheme. The area outlined by the dotted and thick solid line was already possessed by the Town Council.Lothian Road Public School closed for the last time at the end of the summer term of 1910. Its brief thirty year life was the shortest of any of the Board’s schools and in that time it was estimated that 9,780 children had passed through its doors. Its Continuation Classes were removed to James Gillespie’s School when the new term started, the infant department to temporary huts at Ponton Street and the remaining 590 children were largely sent to the old West Fountainbridge School while their new home was completed. This building had been closed a few years previously (it had actually been condemned) and its lower floors had by then been converted into a central cooking centre for free and “penny dinners” for schools in the city centre. One can only imagine what the smells of boiling cabbage were like for children trying to learn about the kitchens’ coppers which had a capacity to cook 650 gallons in one go – 130 stones (or 826kg) of potatoes could be cooked per hour!
On Tuesday March 13th 1911, workmen of Messrs Neil Mcleod & Sons began working on building operations for the Usher Hall and that Friday the Edinburgh Evening News reported on “the passing of Lothian Road School“. Wooden hoardings been erected around the building and children were helping the teachers throughout the day to clear the school.
Although now the exigencies of modern educational equipment call for something more up to date [it] has never failed to satisfy the powers that be in the work of educating pupils and securing high attendance percentages.”
“The Passing of Lothian Road School”, Edinburgh Evening News, 17th March 1911On the 22nd of the month, the demolition gangs moved in and it was reported less than a month later that a workman by the name of Alexander Young had been seriously injured at work on demolition, having been standing on a second floor staircase when it collapsed beneath him and he suffered a fall of thirty five feet as a result.
During and before images of the demolition of Lothian Road Public School, view looking towards Grindlay Street. Move the slider to compare. Photographs probably taken by Francis M. Chrystal of the Edinburgh Photographic Society. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries. During and before images of the demolition of Lothian Road Public School, view looking towards Cambridge Street. Move the slider to compare. Photographs probably taken by Francis M. Chrystal of the Edinburgh Photographic Society. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.In December 1910 it had been decided that the replacement school should be called Tollcross Public School and that it should accommodate 800 children (300 infants and 500 juveniles). Tenders were advertised in May 1911 and it would open in September 1912.
Site of Tollcross School, before shown on 1906 Goad Fire Insurance map when it was the municipal slaughter houses and after shown on 1944 OS Town Plan. Move the slider to compare. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandDemolition at Lothian Road proceeded swiftly and groundworks were advanced to allow the laying of the memorial foundation stones on July 19th 1911. King George V and Queen Mary performed the honours at a grand public ceremony, each dropping a stone into place by the turning of the handle of a crane and tapping it gently with a ceremonial mallet.
The stage is set, quite literally, for the laying of the Usher Hall’s foundation stones, July 19th 1911. These are on the site of the former Lothian Road School, the steepled building on the right of the photo being St. Columba’s Gaelic Free Church. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.The Usher Hall finally opened on March 16th 1914, seventeen years and two hundred and eighty two days after the initial gift was made. By all accounts it has been a grand success, but its troubled gestation is just one of many examples of the city’s difficult (and ongoing) history of schemes to try and build public concert halls!
Bust of Andrew Usher, unveiled at the opening of the Usher Hall. Photograph by Francis Caird Inglis, 1914. Delays to the scheme meant that Usher was long dead by the time his gift was completed. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.The previous chapter of this series looked at the James Clark School.
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On March 23, 2004: #Usher releases his 4th studio album "Confessions" (2004 Billboard Album of the Year, Grammy Award Best Contemporary R&B Album 2005).
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This week’s #WestWed leading men are Ashton Kutcher, Alfred Molina, Dylan McDermott, Usher Raymond, Robert Patrick, Randy Travis and the late James Van Der Beek
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On the 11th of February 2024: #Usher performs the halftime show at Super Bowl LVIII with guests #AliciaKeys, will.i.am, Lil Jon, H.E.R. and Ludacris.
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The thread about the First Day of Christmas; an Edinburgh Pear Tree connection
This thread was originally written and published in December 2019.
Because of the time of year, let’s do a “Twelve Days of Christmas“-themed thread based around some Edinburgh and Leith local history. Do you remember the tune and the words? Altogether now! And a 1, and a 2, and a 1, 2, 3!
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a Partridge in The Pear Tree House. Better known to most these days as the as The Pear Tree pub and beer garden on West Nicolson Street. It’s an early Georgian 2-storey merchant’s house, built in 1756 for William Reid as his residence as West Nicolson House. There is a date stone of 1749 embedded in its walls, but apparently this is a later, anachronistic addition.
The Pear Tree House and its popular beer gardenLady Nicolson, Elizabeth Carnegie, moved here after 1762 when she allowed her own house and parklands to be feud and cleared to make way for Nicolson Street and Square (which took her family name). The Nicolson Baronets had owned the land here since the early 16th century, the title becoming dormant in 1743 on the death of Elizabeth’s husband, the 7th Baronet.
RHP5587 Plan of part of Lady Nicolson’s Park, Edinburgh 1762 © Crown copyrightThe building is typical of the Edinburgh style from the time, with a gable end and chimney on the façade. It is faced with rubble but would likely have been harled. Part of the fueing conditions were that the front courtyard be enclosed and used only for “the planting of trees;” the beer garden area was this garden and a coach drive.
Outline of the Pear Tree House, Kirkwood’s Town Plan of 1817. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandThe house passed to the Kilkerran Baronets – the Fergusson Family. Sir Adam Fergusson (3rd Baronet) entertained James Boswell here in the late 1760s and took tea with him. He sold it in 1770. The poet and minister, the Rev. Dr Thomas Blacklock then resided in rented rooms here and entertained both Dr Johnson and Robert Burns, again tea was taken along side various other “refreshments”. Blacklock had been blind since infancy and gives his name to the upstairs bar of the Pear Tree, the Blind Poet. He is credited with having saved the life of Burns, as a letter he wrote to him in 1789 dissuaded Burns from travelling abroad to the West Indies; the ship he had been due to travel on sank on the voyage.
Thomas Blacklock, 1721-1791, © Edinburgh City LibrariesAfter Blacklock’s time, the ownership changed again, this time coming into the hands of the Usher family, in whose time it was known as The Usher House.
The Pear Tree House in 1905, “the” tree is on the left of the shot. photography by A. H. Baird. © Edinburgh City LibrariesThe Ushers, who gave their name to the concert hall, were an Edinburgh brewing and distilling dynasty. They donated c. £13 million in today’s money to build the hall, and its internal dome is reputed to be modelled on the one at the top of the stairs in the Pear Tree House. Andrew Usher (senior) was a brewer and for a time in the mid-19th century, they used the house as such. However it was with whisky and distilling where they really made it big. Usher pioneered blending malt with grain whisky; his son Andrew (junior) made a fortune in this business and in 1885 – along with John “Green Ginger” Crabbie and William “VAT69” Sanderson – founded the North British Distillery at Gorgie. This is one of the biggest and most successful vertical column grain distilleries and is still going strong.
A photo of the Pear Tree during the Usher’s days, 1905. The front wall is being rebuilt. The eponymous tree can clearly be seen. The house is the neighbour of the Pear Tree House and the bulk of the Buccleuch Free Church towers behind. © Edinburgh City LibrariesWhen the brewery outgrew the house, it moved nearby to St. Leonards at the Park Brewery, with the house used as offices, storage and distribution. In 1918, Usher’s whisky business was acquired by the Distillers Company Limited (DCL) and formed into Scottish Malt Distillers, DCL’s lowland whisky operation. The house passed to a subsidiary, J. & G. Stewart, another long-established Edinburgh whisky name and responsible for Stewart’s Cream of the Barley. It became known locally as The House of Stewart.
The Pear Tree, the Pear Tree House and its neighbour, in 1912. © Edinburgh City LibrariesWhen Stewarts moved to Leith in 1972, the house was shut up and abandoned behind its courtyard wall. It was mooted for a potential site of the City Arts Centre, but in 1976 it was restored for use as a pub with the courtyard becoming a beer garden. It took its modern name from an old pear tree growing in the corner of the courtyard.
The Edinburgh and Leith themed Twelve Days of Christmas continues with a thread about The Lochend Dovecot.
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