Dumbiedykes

Upper Viewcraig Row

Mike and Marjory Sweeney

at the back of No.6, Upper Viewcraig Row

Mike and Marjory Sweeney outside the back of No.6 Upper Viewcraig Row

©  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.

Mike and Marjory Sweeney outside the back of No.6 Upper Viewcraig Row ©

Mike wrote:

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:

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?

Dumbiedykes Survey Photograph - 1959  -  Salisbury Street, North ©

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.

Dumbiedykes Survey Photograph - 1959  -  Salisbury Street, North ©

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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