Recollections

Piersfield Grove

Thank you to Bryan Gourlay, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland, who wrote

"This photo shows me and my cousin, Jimmy, holding my dog, Rusty.  The photo  was taken in 1948  The big difference from today is the complete absence of parked cars.

I lived about 15 yards to the right of the photo.  We lived in the back room of the shop my parents owned at 119 Piersfield Terrace for two or three years.  We didn’t have the luxury of a bath – just one big room with a toilet in a cupboard at the back,  with iron bars on the one window.

It was a quite noisy living on the main road (Piersfield Terrace) as we were only a few feet away from the busy tramline to and from Portobello and Musselburgh."

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Bryan added:

"I can’t remember much more about Piersfield Grove, other than we spent quite a lot of time looking over the wall at the very end, watching the big trains going by on the main Edinburgh-London line

My trusty Triang trike is in the background. After a visit to the Speedway at Meadowbank to see Edinburgh Monarchs, I was soon tearing along the pavements trying hard to emulate Jack Young who was one of Britain’s top riders of the day."

Bryan Gourlay, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland:  October 11, 2009