Dunblane

[curiouswombat]

I was so happy for Andy Murray, winning the US Open. There was coverage on the TV news this morning, not only of the match, but looking at how it was watched, and celebrated, in his home town of Dunblane.

And I thought of what the name Dunblane meant to people before Andy Murray became famous.

So tonight I would like to remember

Victoria Elizabeth Clydesdale (5)
Emma Elizabeth Crozier (5)
Melissa Helen Currie (5)
Charlotte Louise Dunn (5)
Kevin Allan Hasell (5)
Ross William Irvine (5)
David Charles Kerr (5)
Mhairi Isabel MacBeath (5)
Brett McKinnon (6)
Abigail Joanne McLennan (5)
Gwen Mayor (45) — Primary School Teacher
Emily Morton (5)
Sophie Jane Lockwood North (5)
John Petrie (5)
Joanna Caroline Ross (5)
Hannah Louise Scott (5)
Megan Turner (5)

Who were all gunned down in the gym of Dunblane Primary School on 13 March 1996 - whilst an 8 year old boy called Andy Murray hid, with his classmates, under his desk just up the corridor.

Comments

[jay-of-lasgalen.livejournal.com]

It's surprising how a single word can come to mean so much and evoke so many memories, horror and emotion: Lockerbie; Aberfan; Dunblane. I'm glad Dunblane now has a happier reason to be famous.

I was working in a school at the time, and we all sat in the staffroom in stunned silence, some in tears, as the news unfolded.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I remember how very like the school my daughter was a pupil at the school looked; it hit so many people who had no direct contact very hard didn't it?

My mother has that same reaction to Aberfan, still, as we had lived close by for a couple of years and had almost moved even closer but had, instead, come home. My sister could have been a pupil there.

And so I am really pleased that Dunblane has something good attached to its name now.