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Waverley
Market |
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Nineteenth Century
The Waverley Market opened in 1869. In 1877 the market was
roofed over and made available for travelling exhibitions,
touring funfairs and menageries.
When these events were held at the market, the resident stallholders were often
evicted into the street to sell their wares!
Source: National Museums of Scotland:
Scottish Life Archive |
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Twentieth Century
I have just searched the
Scran web site for
images of
Waverley Market and found about 400 images. These
include some views of the roof garden above the market and many
photos of exhibitions and shows that have been held at the
market.
Most of the photos are from the archives
of Scotsman Publications. Some of the exhibitions
at Waverley Market were sponsored by The Dispatch, a
newspaper that was absorbed into The Scotsman Group.
The table below lists all the exhibitions
at Waverley Market that I found images of on the Scran web site,
followed by a few more recent photos, also found on the Scran
web site.
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Today
The Waverley Market
closed in 1977.
- It re-opened as Waverley Market
Shopping Centre in 1984.
- Following a major refurbishment in
the 1990s its name was changed to Waverley Shopping Centre.
- Following another refurbishment in
the early-2000s, its name was changed again, to Princes Mall. |
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Waverley Market
Shows, Exhibitions, Events |
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1900s |
-
International Fisheries Exhibition |
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1900s |
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Dog Show |
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1906 |
- Kelvin Products Exhibition |
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1920s |
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Motor Exhibition |
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1940 |
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St Cuthbert's Festival Cavalcade Exhibition |
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1948 |
-
Dog Show |
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1950 |
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Fat Stock Show |
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1951 |
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Circus
- Fat Stock Show |
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1952 |
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Alexander's Ford Motor Show
Year in doubt
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Dog Show |
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1953 |
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Flower Show |
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Tattoo Dinner |
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1954 |
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Dog Show
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Fat Stock Show
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Flower Show
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Food Exhibition
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Fur Breeders' Show
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Ideal Home Exhibition
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Jazz Festival
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TA Jubilee Fair |
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1955 |
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Circus
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Dog Show
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Flower Show
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Ideal Home Exhibition
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Medical Associations' Dinner |
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1956 |
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Flower Show |
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1957 |
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Dog Show
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Flower Show |
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1958 |
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Fat Stock Show
- Flower Show
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Waverley Carnival |
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1959 |
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Dog Show
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Edinburgh Civic Exhibition
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Flower Show
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Ideal Holiday Show Possibly 1961 or
1962
- Ideal Home Exhibition
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Manequin Parade
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National Productivity Year Exams
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This Scotland Exhibition
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Scotland's Food Exhibition |
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1960 |
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Dog Show
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Fat Stock Show
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Flower Show
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Girl Guide Exhibition
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Hobbies Exhibition
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Ideal Home Exhibition
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Mod Ball
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National Temples Band
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Scottish Open Air Holiday Show
- Shakespeare Exhibition |
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1961 |
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Epstein Memorial Exhibition -
Ideal Home Exhibition |
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1962 |
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Scottish Autumn Flower Show |
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1963 |
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200 Summers in the City Exhibition
- Lothian Car Club
Driving Tests |
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1964 |
-
Ideal Homes Exhibition |
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1965 |
- Fat Stock Show |
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1966 |
-
Ideal Home Exhibition
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Waverley Carnival |
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1967 |
-
Dog Show
- Edinburgh New Town
Bicentenary Exhibition
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1968
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Carnival
- International Computer
Show (IFIPS)
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Waverley Carnival |
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1969 |
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Dog Show
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Food Exhibition
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Ideal Holiday Exhibition
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Scotland's Food Exhibition |
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1970 |
-
Pigeon Show |
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1971 |
-
Dog Show |
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1972 |
- East of Scotland Motor Show
- Great Northern Welly Boot Show |
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Waverley Market
Shopping Centre |
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1984 |
- Miss Waverley Market |
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1985 |
- Shopping Centre Official
Opening |
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1988 |
- Piano Busker |
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1989 |
- Spud U Like |
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Photos of this show not found on Scran, but I
have been told about the show by Gus Coutts.
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Photos of this show not found on Scran, but I
have been told about this exhibition by Allan Dodds, and I also
remember visiting the exhibition.. See, also,
Recollections 2 below. |
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Recollections
1.
Linda Robertson
Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England |
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Waverley
Market Exhibitions
Many of the exhibitions at Waverley Market have been listed
above, but Linda remembers another, and writes: |
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'Old Edinburgh'
"I wonder if anyone else remembers
an exhibition that was on at the Waverley Market which looked at
Edinburgh over about 100 years.
It must have been about 1968-72-ish.
I remember being amazed at going through a door and finding
myself in a mock-up of a Victorian street.
It was like stepping back in time.
It was dusk, on a cobbled street, complete with hansom cab &
horse, and all of the windows were lit so that you could see
into the houses.
I've never
forgotten it!"
Linda Robertson, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire,
England: August 20, 2012 |
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Recollections
2.
Laurie Thompson
Chipping Sodbury,
Gloucestershire, England |
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Thank you to Laurie Thompson
who wrote:
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Waverley Market
Exhibition - 1967
"Two Hundred Summers In
a City"
"I remember, one warm
summer's day in 1967 while on a fortnight's visit home to Edinburgh from
London (in fact, I think it was the very same day that I bought the
Beatles' newly released 'Sergeant Pepper LP'), going to see an exhibition
in the Market called - if I remember rightly - "Two Hundred Summers In a
City".
The only thing that sticks in my
mind about the Exhibition is seeing a glass case containing a pickled
cancerous lung, taken from a smoker, showing all the horrors that smoking
can inflict.
Presumably this was just part of
a display covering the city's medical establishments' history over the
preceding two centuries, but the image certainly stayed with me for a long
time!"
Laurie Thompson, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England: June 8, 2014 |
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