POSTCARD #75795 One of the floats at the Education Centre, Festival & Gala Day, Wester Hailes, Scotland, 1979. John Walmsley was Photographer in Residence at the Education Centre for three weeks in 1979. The Education Centre was, at the time, Scotland's largest purpose built community High School open all day every day for all ages from primary to adults. The town of Wester Hailes, a few miles to the south west of Edinburgh, was built in the early 1970s mostly of blocks of flats and high rises.