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Straiton |
Sign at Straiton Road
© Bob Henderson, Burdiehouse, Edinburgh: August 12, 2011
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Straiton Pond Local Nature Reserve |
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Thank you to Bob Henderson for writing to tell me that the pond mentioned on the sign above used to be a working sandpit, known as Dirty Dick's. Bob wrote: |
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Dirty Dick's "When I was a boy in the late-1940s and early-1950s, Dirty Dick's was a working sandpit. It's now a pond in a Local Nature Reserve. The sign above is on Straiton Road, just south of the Edinburgh By-Pass. Follow the path from this sign and it takes you to the pond. Dirty Dick's had very steep high sides with a steep sloping mass of loose sand at the bottom of the sheer drop. We used to jump from the top down into the slopes. I sometimes wonder how we survived to tell these tales!" |
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Bob Henderson, Burdiehouse, Edinburgh: August 12, 2011 (3 emails) |