It’s that time in August now, the new school term is near, new experiences, people, and challenges. For many Shetland children, a new term meant living in a new place, residential education in Lerwick, some spending as much as a whole term there. For rural boys from 1947 onwards that meant living in the Janet Courtney Hostel, an imposing edifice at Twageos, now awaiting redevelopment. But who was Janet Courtney?
