Dr Guthrie's Swimming Pool, Liberton. Edinburgh.
T h e c o m p l e t e l y i n v i s i b l e
Swimming
Pool
And the pervert
Who is totally undetectable.
Dr Guthrie's Ragged Schools–Exclusively For Scottish aristocratic perverts, to sexually exploit, The impoverished.
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The first time I read reports of child abuse in children's homes was in 1982.
When I first saw these reports, I was relieved because I thought that most abuse would stop if the perpetrators were exposed.
And from 1982 until the Jimmy Savile scandal in 2012,
British newspapers published reports of child abuse in institutions on an almost weekly basis.
Given the abuse I witnessed at the boys' school. I was shocked that Dr Guthrie's schools had never been mentioned.
Even after the launch of the Scottish Abuse Inquiry in December 2015, there has not been much negative media coverage of Dr Guthrie Schools, in fact quite the opposite.
Numerous extremely positive articles about Dr Guthrie's schools have appeared online.
The schools have been described on the internet as the best thing since sliced bread and heaven on earth.
Dr Guthrie's schools were never the scene of abuse,
Abuse only happened in other children's homes and in expensive fee-paying private schools such as
Edinburgh Academy, Fettes, Gordonstoun and Loretto.
A review of the websites dedicated to Dr Guthrie's 'ragged schools' reveals a misleading portrayal of these institutions.
These schools, presented as philanthropic educational institutions, were in fact juvenile detention centres.
The way this has been covered up and whitewashed is disgusting.
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There is a 100-year D-Notice on Dr Guthrie's schools.
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Here's an article from The British Newspaper Archive, which is easy to find online.
The Scotsman - Tuesday 31 July 1928.
A new swimming pool was opened in Dr Guthrie's school for boys in Liberton, Edinburgh, yesterday.
The pool is 40 feet long and 20 feet broad and varies in depth from 5 feet 6 inches to 2 feet 6 inches.
I'm unable to find a photograph of Dr Guthrie's boys' school swimming baths.
I've been looking all over the internet since 1999 for a photograph, and I've even contacted the other schools in Liberton Edinburgh that used the swimming pool and asked them if they have any photographs.
I can't find any.
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If anyone is wondering why all this is being exposed now
Here is the answer.
I have been complaining about abuse at Dr Guthrie's Boys' School since 1988.
There has been virtually no response to my complaints.
I started using the internet around 1997 and every time I found something about Dr Guthrie's schools that I could comment on, I did, only to have my comments deleted each time. Many comments about Liberton, particularly Dr Guthrie's swimming pool, were posted on an Edinburgh blog site and, from the early to mid 2000s, every comment I made about the swimming pool was deleted. I was even insulted by a blogger, who informed me that he lived in a new house, built on the boys' school football pitch and there wasn't anything I could do about it. The Edinburgh blog site is still up today, but the abusive comment left by someone who was basically mocking me, has also been deleted.
Every negative comment I made about Dr Guthrie's schools was removed, and to this day, if I leave a comment on any of the many websites of Dr Guthrie's Ragged Schools,
All my comments are deleted.
It wasn't until we opened our own Facebook group in 2018, and then our petition,
And finally, our own Dr Guthrie's website,
That we were able to start exposing these monsters.
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There are no photos of the pool.
Viewers of this website will have to make do with a blank image.
In 1997, I visited the boys' school and it was a very traumatic experience.
The swimming pool was still in use. It was a private club.
It's very strange that I can't find a photo of the pool.
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Dr Guthrie's Boys
Swimming pool
was a
Pedo-sweet shop.
Every boy between the ages of eleven and fourteen swam naked.
We were not allowed to wear swimming trunks.
Sexual abuse was endemic in this pool between 1967 and 1972.
I personally was abused along with eight other boys.
The boys were regularly filmed and photographed naked.
According to Dr Guthrie's Association, which is responsible for all the school's records and,
Under Scottish law, only our records,
The male sex abuser seems to have mysteriously disappeared.
There is no record of him.
They claim that the main sexual abuser does not exist and has never existed.
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This man has simply vanished
into
Thin air.
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I remember that this man had either white or blonde hair and was extremely tall.
He had a very posh accent.
This man always had a walking stick that he could fold into a chair. He used this chair during the boys' sports days. He had a deformity in his leg. It looked like his foot didn't work properly.
I can't remember if it was his right or left leg.
Although I'm not sure of his name, I have reported this man to the police and in all likelihood this pervert will be dead.
We need more people to come forward and report this serial child sex abuser, because he and them are getting away with very serious sexual abuse of young children.
Please don't hesitate to contact me using the links at the bottom of the Home page if anyone reads this and knows this man's name.
Thortonloch Campsite. The Arch and Cove Harbour.
Monynut Water Campsite
At Monynut Water.
On previous occasions we had gone to this burn to catch trout. But one day was different. Our job that day was to make a deep pool by removing all the rocks and stones from the small burn.
All the boys were naked.
We finally managed to make a pool so deep that we could jump into the river from the bank. When the boys jumped in, they dived and grabbed the rocks, their bottoms and legs were visible above the water.
The pervert filmed this with an old-fashioned camera. The same person also filmed all the boys naked.
There was a campsite at Monynut Water, but only those he liked were allowed to camp there.
I always wondered why he made us build a deep pool. Surely it wasn't just to film us naked?
A few decades later I discovered that a few hundred metres downstream there is (or was) a trout farm.
It's obvious that a deep pool in a small river would attract big trout.
Was the pool built to attract big trout?
This man did exist!
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He had a brand-new blue Range Rover, either a 1970 or 1971 registration.
This man also had a blue, C-registered Land Rover and an older Land Rover with a pre-1963 plate.
The name of this man has been provided to the authorities. I have given the police descriptions of the vehicles I recall him driving.
He generally just showed up out of nowhere to take the boys to the swimming pool, and he had a very affluent accent.
He was also in charge of sports days
from
1970 to 1972.
When my previous solicitor requested the name of the man involved in the boys' sports days between 1970 and 1972,
The Dr Guthrie's Association stated that they did not have that information.
They claimed that only initials, and not names or signatures, were required in their log book.
"This frivolous excuse appears to be perfectly acceptable to the authorities and the law of Scotland."
When I was younger, someone told me that you can't beat the system. I'm not trying to beat the system, but how can the victims and survivors of this most serious child sex offender get justice and closure if the system claims it can't identify this individual?
I know I'm not the only one complaining about this pervert.
And I find it hard to believe that the authorities are unable to identify and label this evil person.
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This man sexually abused many boys while I was a pupil at Dr Guthrie's Boys' School.
He also took photographs and made films of the boys naked.
He regularly showed the boys films he had made of naked boys.
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Between 1967 and 1972, this man sexually abused
Many children, under the age of thirteen, who attended Dr Guthrie's Boys' School.
He was not really a member of staff.
This man would just turn up out of nowhere and take the boys to the swimming pool.
The boys he took to the pool were all pre-pubescent or just after puberty.
This man was also in charge of the boys' sports day.
He was also at Thorntonloch campsite and took the boys to another campsite at Monynut Water.
He photographed and filmed the boys naked, at Thorntonloch and Monynut Water.
When I was at Thorntonloch campsite, he took me and some other boys to Cove Harbour.
He parked his Land Rover very close to what looked like a shop. The building was painted white in 1970, and now I think this house is the old coastguard building and is now painted pink, and he took a boy into this house.
I knew that the boy he took into that house was being sexually abused, and he spent at least forty-five minutes with him there.
He never interacted with the boys except as described above. He spoke with a very rich accent and gave the impression that he was a lord and appeared to be in a position of authority and rank over all the staff.
This man always carried a walking stick, which he could convert into a chair. He had a limp.
"This sexual abuser has been mentioned by some of the survivors. They say he had white hair, a scar on his forehead, he walked with a limp, with one shoe bigger than the other, and the reason he had a limp, is because they say he survived a plane crash."
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The pupils at Dr Guthrie's Boys' School served as this man's sexual playthings.
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It is clear that those in positions of authority,
Are not taking this issue seriously.
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The pervert in Dr Guthrie's was sexually abusing children on an industrial scale.
It wasn't a case of one child being singled out, he was abusing eight of us at the same time.
He also took photographs and made films of naked boys.
He used to show the films of naked boys to the boys in the gymnasium.
I remember him showing the boys films he had made of naked boys in Thorntonloch.
Naked boys jumping over each other, playing games, throwing horseshoes.
Also, naked boys running into the sea.
The rest of the staff must have been aware of the abuse this man was committing, and they did nothing to stop him.
There doesn't seem to have been much concern on the part of the authorities.
About what this man was doing,
And the survivors are basically ignored.
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There is no justice or closure.
For the children
Who were sexually abused by this monster,
In Dr Guthrie's swimming pool.
Video of Dr Guthrie's swimming pool protest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFaLYxdL2C0
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Please sign the petition below.
Do not let them get away.
With
Horrible child abuse.
https://www.change.org/p/remove-the-thomas-guthrie-statue
