[242] For many years the Practising School for Teachers under the
management of the Free Church of Scotland, now the Training College for
Teachers under the Provincial Council of Education.
[243] The terraces have long since been deprived of their last
semblance of the old gardens; but while recent excavations were being
made for an extension of the educational buildings, the statue of the
boy was discovered underground in the lowest terrace. The statue is
preserved, and forms a connecting link between ‘My Lady Murray’s Yards’
and the ‘Yards’ of the modern school.
[244] On the north side of the High Street, opposite the Tron Church.
The site is now covered by the opening of Cockburn Street.