Village life in Spain.

While cities such as Barcelona grapple with a mounting number of visitors, rural regions across the country have been facing depopulation for many decades.

But the tide might be turning, as many Spaniards yearn to return to their roots and creatives seek quaint abodes that offer fewer distractions and deeper connections.

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#Spain #RuralRegions #Depopulation #Living

In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display

Teshikaga, Hokkaido – In the heart of eastern Hokkaido’s Akan-Mashu National Park, steam rises from a narrow river as it cuts through Kawayu Onsen, a hot spring town slowly…
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https://www.alojapan.com/1387575/in-rural-hokkaido-the-stops-and-starts-of-tourism-revival-on-full-display/ In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display #AkanMashuNationalPark #Depopulation #Hokkaido #HokkaidoNews #hotels #KawayuOnsen #NationalParks #news #onsen #tourism #travel #北海道 Teshikaga, Hokkaido – In the heart of eastern Hokkaido’s Akan-Mashu National Park, steam rises from a narrow river as it cuts through Kawayu Onsen, a hot spring town slowly fading into the forest. Located just off the shore of Lake Kusshar

The other unrelated depressing thing is that my daughter's year had five classes. My son's year has four. And apparently, first year kids are only in three classes.
The school was recently founded (15 years or so) as a merger of three schools in this part of town that couldn't remain individually open because there weren't enough kids anymore.
#Japan #depopulation

#578: The Giving Pledge

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Goldman sells Tokyo office area to JR East for over ¥50 billion

East Japan Railway has purchased from Goldman Sachs Group several floors in an office building connected directly to Tokyo Station, part of its push to strengthen businesses other than its core train operations. The railway …
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https://www.alojapan.com/1369580/goldman-sells-tokyo-office-area-to-jr-east-for-over-%c2%a550-billion/ Goldman sells Tokyo office area to JR East for over ¥50 billion #ChiyodaWard #Depopulation #GoldmanSachs #JREast #rail #RealEstate #Tokyo #TokyoTopics #東京 #東京都 East Japan Railway has purchased from Goldman Sachs Group several floors in an office building connected directly to Tokyo Station, part of its push to strengthen businesses other than its core train operations. The railway company bought the 14th to 18th floors of the GranTokyo South

As the population of Spain's rural regions continues to fall, raising fears that smaller towns and villages may eventually vanish, public and private actors are experimenting with ways to reverse the demographic decline. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/12/world/society/spain-rural-regions-revitalize/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #spain #depopulation #tourism #rurallife #cities

The Kobe Municipal Government is mulling a nonstatutory municipal tax on owners of vacant or underused units in high-rise condominiums in central districts of the city. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/10/japan/kobe-eyes-tax-on-unused-condo-rooms/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kobe #taxes #realestate #depopulation

East Japan Railway has purchased from Goldman Sachs Group several floors in an office building connected directly to Tokyo Station, paying more than ¥50 billion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/09/companies/goldman-office-jr-east/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #jreast #goldmansachs #rail #tokyo #realestate #depopulation

Japan is considering next steps for the new "furusato jūmin" (hometown resident) registration system to encourage people to get more involved in areas where they don't live. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/07/japan/japan-hometown-resident-system-regional-revitalization/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #rurallife #furusatonozei #depopulation

Japan’s financial regulator is urging regional banks to help local businesses secure equity funding necessary for further growth, as part of the country’s broader drive to revitalize rural economies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/03/companies/rural-banks-help-companies-get-equity-funding/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #fsa #regionalbanks #investments #depopulation

The thread about Canonmills School; teaching “self denial as well as thrift”

Preamble. The schools of the “School Board” era of public education (1872-1918) have for some reason a particular fascination for me, one which is more profound where they 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 each of the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” but rapidly snowballed into an intention to cover each, in alphabetical order, on its own and in rather more detail, but not so much that they can’t be posted quite frequently.

The second instalment of our series detailing “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” looks at Canonmills Public School on Rodney Street. Before this institution, education in the neighbourhood was provided either at the Church of Scotland’s St Mary’s School – also on Rodney Street – or the Free Church School at the foot of Canonmills (the former is now part of the Elsie Clark Halls of the Royal British Legion and the latter is the Canonmills Baptist Church.) The Edinburgh School Board acquired half an acre of ground immediately to the east of St Mary’s for a new school and plans were prepared by architect to the Board, Robert Wilson. These were forwarded for approval of the Scotch Education Department in 1879, the estimates for the total cost being £8,500, to be paid for by a loan over thirty years from that authority.

The school was very similar to others for the board by Wilson (who would later become their staff architect); a two-storey sandstone building in the favoured Collegiate Gothic style, minimally ornamented except for the Edinburgh School Board roundel (“the female figure of education” dispensing knowledge to the young and surrounded by books and a globe) on the central gable. It was roughly symmetrical in layout, with an entrance at the north end of the block for boys and another at the south end for girls and infants. Internally it was similarly segregated and effectively two schools, the two halves meeting in the centre in large, multi-function halls on both floors. These had moving partitions to allow them to be split up into smaller teaching spaces and also served as the only direct connection between the two halves. To the rear was a playground, around the edge of which were play sheds, and a house for the resident janitor.

The Board advertised to staff their new school in May 1880, ahead of its opening for the new term later that year. They appointed Mr Maxwell Shennan headmaster but he left before the end of that first term to join the Heriot Trust schools. He was replaced by Mr John Bauchope of New Street Public School.

Compared to its contemporaries in the city, Canonmills suffered less from the effects of social deprivation. As an example, in 1893 it had an attendance rate of 99.5% while Castlehill in the Lawnmarket could achieve only 78%. In a favourable inspection the following year it was remarked as running a library and a penny savings bank; “very successful institutions” . Headmaster Bauchope had instituted a similar scheme at his previous charge and noted that by saving their pennies rather than spending them, the “children are taught self-denial as well as thrift“.

The expansion of Edinburgh’s late Victorian tenement town as well as the nationwide abolition of school fees in 1890 put pressure on school rolls thus in 1894 an extension at Canonmills was authorised to provide workshops and a sewing room as was another new school for the district – at Broughton Road. In 1897 the pupils raised £2 7s 6d towards famine relief in India.

In 1908 the school was briefly the focus of some of the bitter, anti-Catholic sectarianism that flourished in Edinburgh local politics in the first half of the 20th century. At this time the education of Roman Catholic children was still directly provided for by that church – it was not until the Education (Scotland) Act 1918 that it would be incorporated into the public sector. In November a crowded meeting was held at the Queen’s Hall on Queen Street to protest there being two “nuns” teaching at Canonmills. These, it turned out, were students allocated by the Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers who were in general (i.e. not religious) training towards becoming teacher at Catholic schools and who wore a uniform which had been mistaken for the habit of a nun. The School Board capitulated on the issue, under pressure from “Pastor Primmer” – the Rev. Jacob Primmer, a prominent Protestant rabble-rouser at the time – and the students were withdrawn. They wrote to the Provincial Committee requesting that it no longer send them any Catholic students and were condemned in turn by Canon Stuart as “a committee of nun-hunters“.

A further “Popish plot” at the school was soon uncovered and in December Primmer’s meeting attacked the School Board for allowing a class of boys from St. Mary’s Cathedral Roman Catholic School on York Place the use of the workshop at Canonmills for woodworking lessons once a week. The meeting was outraged that Catholic children should get to use the “benches, expensive tools and fittings, along with the manual instructor, which are all paid for by the Edinburgh ratepayers“. This, they said, was “virtually placing a Popish school to a certain extent, on the rates” and they protested that “Popish Schools, not being under popular control, had no right to a share of the public rates”. It is not clear who won this particular denominational battle.

During WW1, Continuation Classes (that is, education continuing beyond the school leaving age of 14 for those who wished to take it but did not pass the qualifying exams for Higher schools) for young women were moved from London Street School which had been commandeered by the military for the duration for the instruction of new recruits. These classes offered “a wide variety of educational courses, thoroughly practical and well suited to meet modern requirements” and included domestic subjects, “cutting out, sick-nursing and cookery” for “married women” (i.e. expectant mothers) and trade dressmaking. In 1916 a number of windows in the school were broken as a result of bombs dropped nearby on empty ground at Bellevue Terrace during the Edinburgh and Leith Zeppelin Raid of 2nd – 3rd April 1916.

In 1928 the boys of Canonmills School won the Edinburgh Inspector’s Cup, one of the first junior football trophies in Scotland and – as far as I can establish – the oldest that is still competed for. They beat Gorgie Public School by 1-0 at Tynecastle Park, M. Mcphee scoring the winning goal for the Boys from Bellevue. In 1930 a further sporting accolade was brought to the school by pupil Harry Harkness who was chosen as captain of the Scottish schoolboy’s eleven in an international match against England. Harkness was a centre half who played for Edinburgh Emmet, a junior side at Meadowbank, and later the short-lived Niddrie Thistle senior team.

In 1931, sixty pupils from the school took part in a novel educational experiment in the neighbouring Ritz picture house. They were shown an instructive cartoon film by the Western Electric Company explaining how sound was recorded and reproduced in motion pictures, a subject on which they were later tested. The school’s headmaster, Mr D. Fulton, expressed his support of the idea as “an educational force” but noted that such films would have to be specially made for the purpose. Fulton was replaced by Mr Bunce in 1932, who died only three years later on June 27th 1935.

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In 1937 the Scottish Education Department (it dropped the title Scotch in 1918) condemned both Stockbridge School and – provisionally – Canonmills as unfit for purpose. A particular complaint about Canonmills was that it was “very noisy“, being surrounded by a number of industries and also being immediately above the Scotland Street railway yard. The city Corporation therefore quickly advanced plans for a combined new school for the district at Tanfield. At this time, Stockbridge had a roll of 547 and Canonmills 449 and it was forecast that a 14-class building with a capacity of 800 would be sufficient to replace both. £30,000 was budgeted for this scheme as part of a huge, city-wide investment in schools on the back of the Education (Scotland) Act 1936. Approval was granted in 1938, however like many of the plans made at this time for schools in the city it was put on a hiatus as a result of WW2, one which would become permanent.

At 7AM on Friday 1st September 1939, Canonmills was one of the central assembly points for the wartime evacuation of the city’s children who would proceed from there directly to Waverley station. But not all children evacuated and many soon returned home once the initial fears of sudden, mass aerial attacks on cities had passed. The school therefore remained open during wartime, the Evening News reporting on 10th March 1943 that class 5A had raised £12 12s 6d towards the “Wings for Victory” appeal, which they presented to the Lord Provost William Young Darling. In May it was reported further that the children of the school had formed a Street Savings Group and had bought one hundred and eleven National Savings certificates.

The next phase of the school’s life began in 1956 when the Corporation announced a major shake-up to education in the north central area of the city. Canonmills, condemned for replacement 20 years previously, was to close. By this time as a result of the general post-war depopulation of the inner city only seven of its twelve classrooms were in use and its pupils would be reallocated to the schools at Broughton, Stockbridge (by now no longer condemned!) and London Street. At those schools there was also an excess of capacity for the same reason. Primary pupils left for the last time on Friday March 1st 1957, heading the following Monday instead to their allocated new schools.

After closure the school remained in educational use, becoming a temporary annexe for Ainslie Park Secondary at East Pilton whose roll had risen to 1,900 and which was bursting at the seams. This problem was as a result of the deferred pre-war schemes to provide new Secondary schools, delays to the new Craigroyston Secondary at Muirhouse and a demographic “bulge” in children of secondary school age on account of the effect that the end of WW2 had on human reproduction. The capacity issue at Ainslie Park was particularly acute as that school had never been properly completed and much of its accommodation was in “temporary” wooden huts.

After Ainslie Park’s overspill left, in 1970 Clarebank School for the Mentally Handicapped was relocated to Canonmills. That establishment had been forced to move from its home in Leith when it was condemned and was moved to the former North Fort Street School which too was then condemned in short order. Parents of the 73 children at Clarebank pointed out these Victorian schools were “hopelessly inadequate” for modern specialist educational needs and it lasted only a few years at Canonmills. Following this the name returned to Canonmills School and it was used for children of secondary school age with “behavioural difficulties” who had been removed from other schools or who were persistent truants. By the year 2000, there were just 54 students attending.

In that year plans were announced to close Canonmills and merge it with Cairnpark School, the two getting a new, purpose-built school for children with additional needs on the site of the former North Merchiston Public School. This scheme became something of a cursed one. Part of the funding was to come from the sale of the Canonmills building and planning permission in outline was granted for the property developer Miller Homes to demolish it and replace it with a 6-storey block of 24 flats. This was strongly objected to by Edinburgh World Heritage Trust, the Cockburn Association and other local civic and residents’ groups and it took three years for it to be finally rejected. A further and more significant spanner was thrown in the works when there was the sort of suspicious fire at the vacant North Merchiston site in 2002 (isn’t it curious how suspicious fires so often seem to happen for no good reason when there is a vacant public building and the involvement of property developers… 😇) Following the fire, protracted wrangling by the Council with both its insurers and the Public Private Partnership body that was meant to fund and build the school eventually resulted in the whole scheme collapsing. The North Merchiston site was sold to the developers and an alternative was sought. After an exhausting hunt for a site, which considered seventeen different locations across the city, it was eventually decided to build upon the former Willowpark and St Nicholas’ Special Schools in Gorgie and do so by direct contract. It was therefore not until February 2008 that the combined new school opened, called Gorgie Mills.

Coincidentally, just days after Gorgie Mills opened, there was a suspicious fire in the now closed and vacant Canonmills School library… Following the refusal of the plans to demolish it, an alternative scheme to retain and convert the original building for this purpose was proceeded with by S1 Developments, who christened their scheme “Primary One“. This consists of fourteen flats, five maisonettes and two Mews houses and was completed in 2010, opening a new and hopefully long and secure chapter in the life of the 130-year old school.

Want to read more about Edinburgh’s Lost Board Schools? The previous chapter was about Bristo Public School and the next chapter is about Castlehill School.

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The thread about Bristo Public School, from “one of the worst” in the city to further and higher education (by way of a car park)

Preamble. The schools of the “School Board” era of public education (1872-1918) have for some reason a particular fascination for me, one which is more profound where they 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 each of the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” but rapidly snowballed into an intention to cover each, in alphabetical order, on its own and in rather more detail, but not so much that they can’t be posted quite frequently.

Bristo Public School was located on Marshall Street in that old district of the city known as Easter Portsburgh. It opened in 1877 with a capacity for 600 children at a time when the Edinburgh School Board was rapidly trying to expand education provision in the city at the same time as dealing with a legacy of inherited and substandard properties. The School Board was formed as a result of the Education (Scotland) Act 1872 which made education compulsory for children aged between 5 and 13 in Scotland (but not free). The school occupied a site where once had stood the General’s Entry lodgings of Robert Burns’ paramour Clarinda – Agnes Maclehose – and took its name from the adjacent Bristo Street, itself an old Edinburgh place name dating back to the early 16th century.

The land was acquired from the Edinburgh Improvement Trust as part of an early civic improvement and slum clearance scheme that swept away some older closes and built a westward extension of of Marshall Street between the Potterrow and Bristo Street. Construction was intended to begin in 1875 but was delayed on account of the original cost estimate of £8,760 being far in excess of what the Board had budgeted per capita. The final cost, including purchasing the land, ended up at £26 10s per head, a huge sum for the time compared to other new schools. In the meantime, the School Board leased premises at 4 Nicolson Square to open a temporary school. The purpose-built Bristo School was designed by the architect to the Board, William Lambie Moffat, in the Collegiate Gothic style that was then in favour for schools and was extremely similar to his Leith Walk School.

Serving a densely populated neighbourhood, in its early days Bristo School was frequently overcrowded. Just three years after opening it had 840 pupils, some 40% more than it was designed to take, and the adjacent Marshall Street Halls had to be taken over in 1885 as an annexe and a new school was begun at South Bridge to provide additional capacity. Matters came to a head in 1896 when the school suffered a negative inspection on the grounds of the overcrowding and the substandard nature of the annexe and the Scotch Education Department cut its grant. On investigation the School Board found that almost half of the pupils actually lived closer to another of their schools than Bristo and so by redistributing them closer to home it was possible to both deal with the overcrowding and close the annexe.

The capacity crisis may have been solved but the school continued to cause the Board problems. On account of its north facing position, cramped plot and being surrounded all around by tall tenements, it was particularly dark inside and had a very small playground which was also very dark. The lack of natural light and ventilation – very important to Edinburgh’s Victorian school designers – soon saw it labelled as “insanitary“. Furthermore it lacked any hall and the arrangements of its classrooms were unsuitable to cope with class sizes; there were too many small spaces. As early as 1900 the School Board were exploring options to replace it and an extension was added to the rear as an interim solution at a cost of £4,350, further decreasing the playground space. In 1909 it was reported that as a result of the poor lighting within the building that it had the highest proportion of children with “defective eyesight” in the city. A special experiment was carried out from 1930 onwards whereby entire year groups were transported to Liberton Playing Fields by tramcar, one day per week in the spring and summer, to have their education outside, far removed from their usual oppressive and dark surroundings.

In 1925 the school found itself caught up in the Sciennes School Strike saga and it was observed at this time that it was under capacity. By 1927 its roll was in steady decline on account of slum clearance in the district which transferred much of the populace to new housing schemes in the southeast of the city. By 1933 the population of school age children in the Southside was declining at 10% per annum and there were 1,228 vacant places in its schools. As a result Bristo, described by Edinburgh Corporation’s Education Committee as “one of the worst” of its schools, was closed in 1934. The remaining scholars were transferred to Sciennes and South Bridge. In 1935 it was proposed to re-open the school by transferring pupils from the condemned St Ignatius’s Roman Catholic (RC) school in Glen Street and St Columba’s RC – the former Causewayside School – into a new Intermediate RC school for the district. Nothing came of these plans except sectarian controversy until final approval in 1939 but war quickly intervened and put them on hiatus again, this time permanently. Instead, after closure it was used for a variety of purposes including evening classes, a day centre for the long-term unemployed and hosting community groups such as the Boys’ Brigade.

In 1938 the Clarinda Club – a local appreciation society of the poet Robert Burns – marked the school being built upon the site of her lodgings by unveiling a commemorative bronze plaque on its walls. During WW2 it served as training centre and headquarters for First Aid and Air Raid Precautions. Another more unusual purpose was established which was the Nursery Equipment Centre. This had first been established by the WVS (Women’s Voluntary Service) at Castlehill School and was set up to produce soft and wooden toys, clothing and playthings for young children at the public nurseries that had been set up to allow their mothers to undertake war work. These items were largely no longer being produced by industry during wartime. In 1941 part of the school also became a British Restaurant – a municipal wartime canteen – operating under the name Clarinda’s.

The Nursery Equipment Centre attracted a significant number of volunteers with disabilities which prevented them from undertaking war work and became something of a specialist centre in helping people adapt their lives to work. Such was the success of the scheme that it – and the school – was taken over by the government’s new Disabled Persons Employment Corporation as a work training centre for the disabled – a Remploy Factory – until purpose-built premises were completed at Sighthill.

When Remploy vacated the school in 1949 it was taken back by the Education Department and repurposed as the Bristo Technical Institute. This was a training centre for apprentices in engineering trades, either on day release from their workplaces or taken as evening classes. It taught specialist skills that could not gained on the job such as technical drawing, physics and chemistry and also basic certificates in maths and English to bring candidates up to standard. After 1959, much of this part of the city was threatened by the comprehensive redevelopment plans of Edinburgh University, which wanted wholesale demolition of the area but the old school survived where much did not. The institute closed in 1966 after the opening of the new Napier Technical College at a purpose-built campus in Merchiston, with most of the city’s pre-existing hodgepodge of technical further education being transferred to it. The building was then leased by Heriot-Watt College, which was at this time on nearby Chambers Street and about to gain university status, as its Department of Industrial Administration. Heriot-Watt University began its move to its new Riccarton campus in 1969 and left its Bristo Building around 1974. By this time the old school was the last remaining building on the western portion of Marshall Street and it was quickly and one old educational institution was unceremoniously demolished by another just shy of its centenary; Edinburgh University replaced it with a windswept car park that was perennially covered in puddles.

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The car park was meant to be a temporary measure, but I clearly remember parking there in the 1990s when my Dad would take me to the Museum on Chambers Street; the University scheme for which it had been cleared never came to fruition. This most wantonly destructive of Edinburgh institutions would not finally build upon the gap site until the 21st century. The final part of the development – the School of Informatics’ Bayes Centre – was opened on the site of Bristo School as recently as 2019. It was perhaps some small consolation that the site was at last returned to educational use again.

Want to read more about Edinburgh’s Lost Board Schools? The next instalment covers Canonmills Public School; where thrift and self-denial were taught

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That's right! He wrote an article in Rolling Stone mag decades ago claiming the thermosil to preserve the VAX ingriedents caused autism. Now he is empowered by his appointment. #depopulation #eugenics

160 more years to go through the dark ages, through tribal times back to the garden. Reincarnations will mostly occur on Nibiru (the Moon Baal) #bethuneretro #depopulation

Japan births hit fresh low in first half of 2025

The number of babies born in January-June fell 3.1% from a year earlier to 339,280 in Japan, hitting a new record low for the first half, the health ministry said Friday. The January-June figure, including babies born to foreign nationals living in Japan and Japanese…
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https://www.alojapan.com/1358267/japan-births-hit-fresh-low-in-first-half-of-2025/ Japan births hit fresh low in first half of 2025 #children #Depopulation #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #marriage #news #parenthood #Population The number of babies born in January-June fell 3.1% from a year earlier to 339,280 in Japan, hitting a new record low for the first half, the health ministry said Friday. The January-June figure, including babies born to foreign nationals living in Japan and Japanese nationals living overseas, stood b

How the Faroe Islands reversed the brain drain of an ageing population.

The small community found a big answer to an ageing population crisis.

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