Groups

Sports

 

Badminton

   North Leith Parish Church Badminton Team, 1931 ©

Champions 1929-30, 1930-311

North Leith Parish Church Badminton Team

 

Basketball

   Canongate Kirk Boys' Club  -  Basketball Team ©

late-1950s

Canongate Boys' Club Basketball Team

 

Bowling

Bowling Green - Where is it? ©

Craigmillar Park Bowling Club

©

Craigmillar Park Bowling Club

Hidden Bowling Green between Montgomry Street and London Road ©

Aerial View from west

Hillside Bowling Club

Hillside Bowling Club, Edinburgh  -  Photo taken 2010 ©

2010 - from SW corner

Hillside Bowling Club

Hillside Bowling Club, Edinburgh  -  Photo taken 2010 ©

2010 - from SW corner

Hillside Bowling Club

Hillside Bowling Club, Edinburgh  -  Photo taken 2010 ©

2010 - from SE corner

Hillside Bowling Club

Bowling Club at Montgomery Street, 1955 ©

1955

Hillside Bowling Club

Bowlers at Hillside Bowling Club  -  1983-84 ©

1983-84

Hillside Bowling Club

Maitland Bowling Club, Davidson's Mains, Edinburgh  -  When might this photo have been taken? ©

Maitland Bowling Club

Summerside Bowling Club and Church, Leith ©

Summerside Bowling Club

Bowlers 1901 - Which Club  -  Photograph by CE Ross, Stockbridge, Edinburgh ©

Photo by CE Ross, Stockbridge, Edinburgh

Which Bowling Club?  -  1901

 

Boxing

Edinburgh Entertainment  -  Sport  -  Sparta Amateur Boxing Club ©

Small photo - c.1947

Sparta Amateur Boxing Club

Edinburgh Entertainment  -  Sport  -  Sparta Amateur Boxing Club ©

Large photo + names - c.1947
and Recollections

Sparta Amateur Boxing Club

Edinburgh Entertainment  -  Sport  -  Sparta Amateur Boxing Club  -Photograph c.1947  -  restored ©

Large photo - c.1947

Sparta Amateur Boxing Club

Edinburgh Entertainment  -  Sport  -  Sparta Amateur Boxing Club ©

Small photo - c.1949

Sparta Amateur Boxing Club

Edinburgh Entertainment  -  Sport  -  Sparta Amateur Boxing Club ©

Large photo + names
 and recollections- c.1949

Sparta Amateur Boxing Club

Edinburgh Entertainment  -  Sport  -  Sparta Amateur Boxing Club ©

Weight Champions - 1948-49

Sparta Amateur Boxing Club

©

1951 or 1952

Sparta Amateur Boxing Club

Boxing Team at Caledonian Station, 1960 ©

Caledonian Station - 1960

Boxing Team

 

Cricket

Canongate Kirk Boys' Club  -  Cricket XI  -  1949 ©

1949

Canongate Boys' Club
Cricket XI

Canongate Kirk Boys' Club  -  Cricket XI  -  1950s ©

c.1951

Canongate Boys' Club
Cricket XI

Cricket  -  Who?  When?  Where? ©

Where and When?

Cricket  -  Who?  When?  Where? ©

Where and When?

Donaldson's Hospital Cricket Team  c.1905 ©

c.1905

Donaldson's Hospital Cricket XI

 

Curling

Photograph of an outdoor curling match  -  Where and when? ©

c1913

Duddingston Curling Club

Curling Match at Duddingston  -  December 31, 1913 ©

1913

Duddingston Curling Club

Curling Match at Duddingston  -  possibly December 31, 1913 ©

c1913

Duddingston Curling Club

Curling Match at Duddingston  -  possibly December 31, 1913 ©

c1913

Duddingston Curling Club

Curling Match at Duddingston  -  possibly December 31, 1913 ©

c1913

Duddingston Curling Club

 

 Cycling

JCH Balmain and other cyclists ©

Around 1898

Photographer JCH Balmain, outside his studio
with an American party of cyclists

Members of Vulcan Cycling Club  -  around 1905 ©

Around 1905

Vulcan Cycling Club

1st Leith Boys' Brigade Company  -  Cyclists at Camp ©

1919?

1st Leith Boys' Brigade Company
Cyclists at Camp

Forth Cycling Club, Leith  -  Camp Canteen at Cloan Farm ©

Around 1920?

Forth Cycling Club, Leith

Cloan Farm  -  Camp Canteen

Cycle Track at The Jewel, Edinburgh ©

Cycle Speedway Tracks

 

Darts

   Whitehouse Darts Team, Craigmillar - 1974 ©

1974

Whitehouse Darts Team

Whitehouse Darts Team, Craigmillar - 1974 ©

1974

Whitehouse Darts Team

   Niddrie Marischal Arms Darts Team - 1974 ©

1974

Niddrie Marischal Arms Darts Team

Football

 ©

1918-19

Leith Hawthorn Football Club

   Amphion Amateur FC team - around 1925 ©

Around 1925

Amphion Amateurs FC

    ©

1935

5 Hearts Caps  -  Who are they?

   Blackfriars Street Football Team, 1955-56 ©

1955-56

Blackfriars Street Football Team

   Bonnyrigg Rose Football Team - 1953 ©

1953

Bonnyrigg Rose Football Team

Broughton Star Football Club, Winners of the Stevenson Cup  1945-46 ©

1945-46

Broughton Star Football Club

Boys' Brigade Leith Battalion Football Team, 1913  -  Match Result:  Leith 3, Edinburgh 2

1913

Boys' Brigade Leith Battalion
Football Team

1st Leith Boys' Brigade  -  Football Team, 1937-38

1937-38

1st Leith Boys Brigade Company
Football Team

Heart of Midlothian Foresters Football Club - including several players from Dumbiedykes ©

1959

Dumbiedykes

Heart of Midlothian Foresters FC

Heart of Midlothian Foresters Football Club - including several players from Dumbiedykes ©

1962

Dumbiedykes

Heart of Midlothian Foresters FC Dinner

Edinburgh Athletic Football Team, 1959-60 ©

1959-60

Edinburgh Athletic Football Team

   Edinburgh Tramways Football Club ©

1912

Edinburgh Tramways
Football Club

   Insurance Officers' Football Team  - Lothian Amateur Football League ©

1953-58

Insurance Officers' Football Team
Lothian Amateur Football League

©

1928-29  Cup Winners

Longstone FC

St Bernard's Football Team  -  1952 ©

1952

St Bernard's Football Team

   St Cuthbert's Coop Football Club, 1911 ©

1911

St Cuthbert's Coop Football Club

St Cuthbert's Coop Football Club, 1913-14 ©

1913-14

St Cuthbert's Coop Football Club

©

1944-45

Saughtonhall Boys' Club

Stanwell Football Club, Loanhead  -  Around 1931 ©

Around 1931

Stanwell Football Club, Loanhead

Swifts Football Club, around 1908.  Which club was this? ©

Around 1908

Swifts Football Club  What team was this?

 

High Jump

   High Jumper  -  Who?  When?  Where? ©

Early 1900s

1914 or later

Edinburgh University Playing Fields
Craiglockhart Terrace

 

Ice Skating

©

1950s

A Group at Murrayfield Ice Rink

 

Long Jump

   Long Jump  -  Who?  When?  Where? ©

Where and When?

 

Putting

Putting  -  Who?  When?  Where?  -  Answer:  City Hospital, Edinburgh ©

Where and When?

 

Putting the Shot

   Putting the shot  -  Where is it? ©

Early 1900s

Where is it?

 

Racing

   Ladies Racing  -  Edinburgh University Playing Fields, Myreside ©

Finish of a Ladies' Race:  1914 or later

Edinburgh University Playing Fields
Myreside

Road Race  -  Who?  When?  Where? ©

Road Race
Where and When?

   Start of the Men's Race  -  Who?  When?  Where? ©

Start of a Men's Race

Where and When?

The Finish of a Race -  Who?  When?  Where? ©

Finish of a Men's Race

Where and When?

 

Rowing

   Rowing  -  Who?  When?  Where? ©

c.1910-30

Union Canal at Meggetland

   A ladies' crew, probably on the Union Canal near Meggetland, where Edinburgh University Rowing Club had its Boathouse ©

c.1910-30

Union Canal near Meggetland?

    Rowing Boat at the Shore  -  Who?  When?  Where? ©

At the Shore - Where and When?

   Jolly Boat, off the beach at Portobello, Edinburgh  -  2011 ©

Jolly Boat -  off the shore at Portobello

 

Rugby

   Rugby  -  Who?  When?  Where? ©

Early-1900s

East Suffolk Road

USL Rugby Team, Around 1929 ©

Around 1929

USL Rugby Team

Cabinet Print by Alexander Ayton  -  Rugby Team ©

Probably late-C19

Which rugby team is this

 

Snooker

  

1st Leith Boys' Brigade  -  Fundraising snooker tournament, 1982 ©

1982

1st Leith Boys' Brigade

 

Sportsmen

   Group of Sportsmen  -  Who?  When?  Where? ©

What sportsmen are these?
Where and When?

 

Sportswomen

   Canongate Girls' Club  -  around 1958 ©

Around 1958

Canongate Girls' Club

 

Swimming

1st Leith Boys' Brigade Swimmers  -  Winners of the Goalen Cup, 1915-16, 1916-17, 1917-18 ©

1918

1st Leith Boys Brigade
Swimming Team

 

Table Tennis

   Canongate Scouts  -  1950s ©

1950s

Canongate Boys' Club

 

Tennis

   Opening of the Tennis Courts at Leith Links  - 1914 ©

1914

Opening of the Tennis Courts at Leith Links

 

Tug of War

   Leith Docks Tug-of War team  -  around 1900 ©

Leith Docks Tug-of-War team

A tug of war competition at Edinburgh University Sports Fields at Myreside  -  Probably some time between 1910 and 1930 ©

Edinburgh University Playing Fields
Myreside

 

Water Polo

   1st Leith Boys' Brigade  -  Water Polo, 1916-17 ©

1916-17

1st Leith Boys' Brigade

 

Weightlifting

   ©

Around 1960

4 Members of Dunedin
Amateur Weightlifting Club

10 Weightlifters at Dunedin Amateur Weightlifting Club ©

Around 1960?

10 Weightlifters at Dunedin
 Amateur Weightlifting Club

Derek Gillies at Dunedin Club doing the Crucifix with 56lb weights ©

Around 1960?

Derek Gillies at Dunedin Amateur Weightlifting Club
doing the Crucifix with 56lb weights

     

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