St John Ogilvie’s Roman Catholic church, Edinburgh (1970)
Sir Frank Mears & Partners were appointed as architects to design Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, with construction beginning in 1967. The Wester Hailes Association of Tenants formed soon after. Their newsletter reported: ‘A primary school, a shop and lots of houses – that about sums up Wester Hailes. We need a secondary school quickly, we need a community centre, nursery or pre-school facilities for the very young children and their mothers, a club of some kind for our teenagers, more shops, a post office, letter boxes. You name it, we haven’t got it’
Photograph: Matthew Dransfield
