Recollections

1.

Giles Greetham

Edinburgh

Thank you to Alan Stewart, Dumfries, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, for sending me two photos of this house.

Giles wrote:

Front of the House

"This photo shows my Grandfather and my Uncle at the rear of Clermiston House, our family home, which stood on the top of Clermiston Road at the junction of Drum Brae Drive.

My mother speaks fondly of living there as a young girl in the late1940s and early-1950s.

The house has now been engulfed by the Best Western Hotel.

Giles Greetham:  August 19, 2011

Rear of the House

Please click on the thumbnail image below to see the photograph of the rear of the house that Giles sent to me.

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Recollections

2.

Peter Stubbs

Edinburgh

Two Houses

This photo at the top of this page was originally described as Clermiston House.  That puzzled me because I already had photos of Clermiston House on the web site and it was a two-storey building.

However, I've now looked at old maps and discovered that there were two different houses.  They were:

1.

Clermont

Clermount was in Clermiston Road, near the corner of Drum Brae Road.  The house is still standing but much of it is now hidden by Fox Covert Hotel (now a Best Western Hotel) which has been built around it.

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2.

Clermiston House

Clermiston House house was about half a mile SW of Clermount, on land that subsequently became Queen Margaret College.  Clermiston House was been demolished when the college was built. 

Queen Margaret College has now become Queen Margaret University, and has moved out of Edinburgh to Musselburgh.  The land where Clermiston House once stood is now being redeveloped as housing.

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Peter Stubbs:  August 21, 2011

Recollections

3.

Giles Greetham

Edinburgh

Giles, who sent the photograph of Clermount at the top of this page added:

My Mother

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"My mother loved living in this house.  She  often recalls lying in bed at night with the windows open, hearing the lions roar in the zoo at the other side of the trees.

She also mentioned Buttercup Dairies which I believe was up there somewhere too. **  The family was Gardner.  Charles Gardner (my Grandfather) was a solicitor.

Giles Greetham, Edinburgh:  August 20, 2011

**     Yes -  Buttercup Poultry Farm lay immediately to the SW of Clermount.

 Here are a couple of pictures of the farm.

Clermiston House Photos

Clermiston Recollections