Dumbiedykes
Upper Viewcraig Row |
Mike and Marjory Sweeney
at the back of No.6, Upper Viewcraig Row
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Reproduced with acknowledgement to Mike Sweeney, Livingston, West Lothian,
Scotland
Mike and Marjory Sweeney
at the back of No.6, Upper Viewcraig Row |
Thank you to Mike Sweeney for sending me the photo above of himself and
his sister sitting at the back of their home at No.6 Upper Viewcraig Row.
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Mike wrote:
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Upper Viewcraig Row |
No 6
"Here is a photo of me with my sister,
Marjory, sitting outside the rear of No. 6 Upper Viewcraig Row.
There was a basement level below us
which you can see at the left of the photo. The building on the
right, I’m sure, was the ‘Sheffield Cutlery Factory’.
I left Dumbiedykes in 1957 to live in
Clermiston, Edinburgh. I continued to attend St Patrick's
school, after
which I went to St Anthony’s." |
Mike also commented on another photo that he found on the EdinPhoto web
site:
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Back Green
"I was born at Upper View Craig Row, Edinburgh in
1949.
I was surprised to find messages on the
EdinPhoto web site about
the street, and was amused at the debate, albeit 2008-09 re the
photograph at the rear of the tenement. Was it Lower or Upper?
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Well it was
Upper Viewcraig Row." |
Our Window
"My bedroom was on the ground floor to
the left of the drainpipe in this photo. We used the window,
which was very low, to access the back green.
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Iain McEvoy and Bob Hunter were right
when they said that the wall in the distance took you to waste
ground at Lower Viewcraig Row, which led to a similar wall and to
the Prospects." |
Mike Sweeney, Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland: October 24, 2011 |
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