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Recollections

0.   Edinburgh - Places, Words, Expressions
         Poems, Cafes, etc.

1.   Edinburgh - Central

2.   Edinburgh - East

3.   Edinburgh - North

4.   Edinburgh - West

5.   Edinburgh - South

6.   Edinburgh - by the Water of Leith

7.   Leith

8.   Newhaven

9.   Scotland

10.   Edinburgh Entertainment + Hobbies

11.   Edinburgh Schools + University

12.   Edinburgh Transport

13.   Edinburgh at War

14.   Edinburgh at Work

15.   Edinburgh Housing

16.   Edinburgh Street Furniture

17.   Film Clips and Films

18.  Further Recollections

0.

Edinburgh

Names + Speech

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-  Edinburgh - Places and People

-  Edinburgh - Words and Dialect

-  Edinburgh - Expressions

-  Edinburgh - Sweets, Drinks, Snacks, Cakes

-  Other Comments Received

-  Questions

-  Penicuik - Words and Dialect

-  Edinburgh Poems -  Edinburgh Photographic Society

-  Edinburgh Poems -  Granton

-  Edinburgh Poem -    Scottish Parliament Building

   Some of these poems include local words and dialect.

-  Edinburgh Cafés

1.

Edinburgh  -  Central

Old Town

including Dumbiedykes, St Leonard's, South Side and Fountainbridge

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-  Bannerman's Bar

-  Barron's Rag Merchants

-  Blackfriars Street

-  Bristo

-  Brown Street

-  Brown's Place

-  Buccleuch Street

-  Canongate

-  Carnegie Street

-  Castlehill

-  Castlehill Primary School

-  Central Garage  Annandale Street

-  Chambers Street

-  Chessels Court

-  Chessels Court south + west sides

-  Cockburn Street

-  Cowgate

-  Cowgate area

-  Croft-an-Righ

-  Crosscauseway

-  Dalrymple Place

-  Deaconess Hospital

-  Drummond Street

-  Dumbiedykes -  after demolition

-  Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street  Aitchison, Greengrocer

-  Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street  baker's shop

-  Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street  coal lorry

-  Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street  confectioner

-  Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street  demolition

-  Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street  Thomas Cullen's shop

-  Dumbiedykes - Houses and Streets

-  Dumbiedykes - Factories and Shops  1950s

-  Dumbiedykes - People and Play  1940s-1960s

-  Dumbiedykes - People and Play  1940s-1960s: page 2

-  Dumbiedykes - St Margaret's Church

-  Dumbiedykes - Searching for People

 - Dumbiedykes - Streets  A-G

-  Dumbiedykes - Streets  H-R

-  Dumbiedykes - Streets  S-Z

-  Dumbiedykes - Tenement Collapses

-  Dumbiedykes - 'The Embers'

-  Dumbiedykes - Tusi's ice cream shop

-  East Preston Street

-  Edinburgh Castle

-  Fleshmarket Close

-  Fountainbridge  Early recollections

-  Fountainbridge  from 1940s

-  The Grapes

-  The Grassmarket

-  Haymarket

-  Heriot Mount

-  Heriot Mount  Street Party

-  High School Yards

-  High Street

-  Holyrood Palace

-  Holyrood Park

-  Holyrood Road

-  Keir Street

-  Heriot Place

-  Infirmary Street Baths

-  James Clark School

-  James Wood  hairdresser

-  Jeannie Deans' Cottage

-  Jeannie Veitch's  sweetie shop

-  Keir Street

-  Lawnmarket

-  Lower Viewcraig Row

-  Milne's Court

-  Moubray House

-  Meadows

-  Nicolson Street

-  Old Town Closes

-  Old Town Names

-  One o'Clock Gun

-  Pleasance  back greens

-  Pleasance

-  Potterrow

-  Prince Albert Buildings

-  Ramsay Lane

-  Rutherford's Lounge Bar

-  Royal Mile  John Knox House + Well

-  Royal Mile  Old Town Weaving Company

-  St Ann's School

-  St John's Hill

-  St Leonard's  1950s

-  St Leonard's Parish Church

-  St Mary's Street

-  St Patrick's Church

-  St Patrick Square

-  Salisbury Street

-  Searching for Poeple

-  Simon Square Wash House

-  Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion

-  South Clerk Street

-  South Side

-  Stewart's Bar

-  Tollcross

-  Tusi's sweetie shop

-  Upper Viewcraig Row

-  Upper Viewcraig  Low Road

-  Vennel

-  Victoria Street

-  White Horse Close

New Town

-  Albany Street

-  Assembly Room Concerts

-  Atholl Crescent

-  Bars

-  Binns Store

-  Blenheim Place

-  Brunswick

-  Caledonian Station

-  Calton Hill

-  Calton Hill  the street

-  Calton Road

-  Cumberland Street

-  East London Street

-  Edinburgh  1950s

-  Fettes Row

-  Floral Clock

-  Gladstone Monument

-  George Street

-  Great King Street

-  Greenside

-  Hillside

-  Jamaica Street

-  Jerome's Studio

-  Leith Street

-  Lothian Road

-  Lothian Road Snack Bar

-  McDonald Road

-  Milne's Bar

-  The Mound

-  Nelson Street

-  Picardy Place

-  Pitt Street

-  Princes Street

-  Princes Street Gardens

-  Princes Street Station

-  Rose Street

-  Ross Bandstand

-  St Andrew Square  'The American Hut''

-  St James Square

-  St James' United Free Church

-  St Mary's Cathedral

-  Searching for Poeple

-  Sinclair Fountain

-  Thistle Street

-  Union Place

-  Waverley Market

-  Waverley Market  Epstein Exhibition

-  Waverley Station

-  West End

-  West End  Points Duty

Shops, Cafés, Restaurants

-  The Albert Bazaar

-  Benny's Shoe Shop

-  Baird's Shoe Shop

-  Binns then Frasers  West End of Princes Street

-  Cafés and Restaurants

-  Goldbergs + surrounding buildings

-  Goldbergs Department Store

-  Hairdresser  Central Edinburgh

-  Highland House  Lawnmarket

-  Jenners Store

-  Milk Bars

-  Parker's Store

-  Patrick Thomson's  and shops nearby

-  Record Shops

-  Roast Chicken Shops

-  Shops  Central Edinburgh

-  Waverley Tailoring Co

-  West Bow

-  West End  Cafés and Restaurants

-  Woolworths

Other Memories
and questions

-  Central Edinburgh

-  Street Furniture

2.

Edinburgh  -  East

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-  Abbeyhill

-  Bingham

-  Cairntows  Craigmillar

-  Cambusnethan Street

-  Coillesdene House Joppa

-  Craigentinny  1940s

-  Craigmillar and Niddrie  1940s-50s

-  Craigmillar and Niddrie  1960s-70s

-  Craigmillar and Niddrie  1970s onwards

-  Craigmillar Castle

-  Craigmillar Castle Estate

-  Craigmillar - The Venchie

-  Duddingston

-  Duddingston Camp  1940s-50s

-  East Thomas Street  1930s-60s

-  East Thomas Street  neighbours

-  East William Street

-  Easter Road

-  Fisherrow Harbour

-  Fort Kinnaird

-  Greendykes

-  The Inch

-  Jeffrey Street

-  Jewel Cottages

-  Joppa

-  Joppa  tram tracks

-  Lochend and Easter Road

-  Magdalene

-  Meadowbank

-  Newcraighall

-  Niddrie  1930s to1950s

-  Niddrie  1950s+1960s

-  Niddrie Mill

-  Niddrie Mill  Sunday School

-  Peffermill

-  Piershill

-  Pilrig  1950s

-  Portobello  early 1900s

-  Portobello  1920s to 1950s

-  Portobello  from 1950s

-  Portobello Bathing Pool

-  Portobello High Street

-  Portobello Hotels early 1900s

-  Restalrig

-  Seafield

-  Searching for People  East Edinburgh

-  South Elgin Street

-  The Venchie  Craigmillar

-  The Wisp

-  Whitehouse Public House

3.

Edinburgh  -  North

Boswall, Granton, Royston, Trinity, Wardie

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-  Boswall + Granton + Trinity + Wardie - 1940s

-  Boswall + Granton + Trinity + Wardie - 1950s-70s

-  Boswall + Granton + Trinity + Wardie - Shops

-  Challenger Lodge

-  Comely Bank

-  Comely Bank  Milk Deliveries

-  Comely Bank  Moir & Baxter's Garage

-  Craighall

-  Crewe Toll

-  Dean Street

-  Embassy Cinema

-  Goldenacre

-  Granton  1930s -50s

-  Granton  1950s

-  Granton 1950s-70s

-  Granton  1970s and 2000s

-  Granton, Boswall, Royston  since 1940s

-  Granton Castle

-  Granton Harbour  then to Sea  1940s

-  Granton Harbour  T L Devlin, trawler owners

-  Granton Harbour  Brown, Blacksmith, WW1

-  Granton Harbour  esparto grass 1940s/50s

-  Granton Harbour  around 1960

-  Granton Harbour  1950s to 1970s

-  Granton House  to  Fire  1954

-  Granton - Lower Granton Road

-  Granton Ice Works  1950s-1970s

-  Granton Railway  1960s to 1980s

-  Hermitage Place  Stockbridge

-  Inverleith

-  Inverleith Pond

-  Inverleith Terrace  Edzell Lodge

-  Leith Walk

-  Leith Walk Café

-  Lindsay Road and North Fort Street

-  Lochinvar Camp 1940s-50s

-  Lomond Park

-  Muirhouse

-  Muirhouse Towers

-  Old Chain Pier

-  Pennywell  1940s

-  Pilton and Crewe Toll

-  Pilton  1940 bomb

-  Royal Botanic Garden question

-  Royston  from 1930s

-  Royston School

-  Scotland Street coal yard

-  Sounds from the Firth of Forth

-  Starbank Inn  1970s

-  Trinity Cottage

-  Wardie Residents' Club   from 1940s

-  Wardie School  1930s

-  Wardie School  1940s

-  Wardie School  1950s

-  Wardie School and Playgroup  1960s

-  Wardie School  1970s

-  Wardie School  1980s

-  Warriston Cemetery

-  West Granton:  Gypsy Brae  1950s

-  West Granton:  Shops  1950s

-  Wester Drylaw

-  Wester Hailes

4.

Edinburgh  -  West

-  Baird Drive

-  Barnton

-  Broomhouse

-  Clermiston

-  Clerwood

-  Comiston

-  Corstorphine and Clermiston

-  Craigleith

-  Cramond

-  Cramond Island  1970s

-  Dalry

-  Davidson's Mains

-  Davidson's Mains Station

-  Edinburgh Airport

-  Edinburgh Zoo

-  Gogarburn Hospital

-  Glenburn Hotel

-  Gorgie

-  Gorgie mills

-  Gorgie and Chesser

-  Gorgie Station

-  Hailes Quarry

-  Harrison Road

-  Hutchison and Chesser

-  Lauriston Castle

-  Merchiston

-  Murrayfield

-  Newbridge

-  Ratho

-  Roseburn

-  Sighthill

-  Slateford Road

-  South Queensferry and Port Edgar

-  Strathearn Place

-  Straiton

-  Union Canal

-  Western General Hospital

-  Whitson

See also Edinburgh - By the Water of Leith below.

5.

Edinburgh  -  South

-  Bonaly

-  Bridgend

-  Bristo Street

-  Bruntsfield

-  Bruntsfield  shinty

-  Burdiehouse

-  Canaan House  Morningside

-  Canaan Lodge  Morningside

-  City Hospital

-  Comiston

-  Deanbank House

-  East Preston Street

-  Echo Bank  Newington

-  Fairmilehead

-  Gilmerton

-  Gilmerton  Westland Cottages

-  Gladstone Terrace

-  Gracemount

-  Happy Valley

-  Liberton

-  Liberton Brae

-  Little France

-  Marchmont

-  Moredun

-  Mount Alvernia

-  Morningside

-  Newington

-  Oxgangs

-  Peffermill and Prestonfield

-  Polwarth

-  Poor Clare's Convent

-  Priestfield

-  Princes Margaret Rose Hospital

-  St Leonard's

-  St Margaret's Convent

-  Sciennes

-  Southside

-  Viewforth

See also Edinburgh - By the Water of Leith below.

6.

Edinburgh  -  By the Water of Leith

Canonmills, Warriston and Beaverbank to Colinton and Juniper Green

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-  At Home

-  Baberton House

-  Balgreen

-  Beaverbank industries  - 1940s

-  Bellevue

-  Bellevue - milk deliveries

-  Bonnington

-  Bonnington - filming

-  Broughton

-  Broughton - buses

-  Broughton  - Growing up

-  Broughton - streets & houses

-  Canonmills

-  Colinton

-  Craiglockhart

-  Craiglockhart Military Hospital

-  Currie

-  Danube Street  Stockbridge

-  Gorgie Road

-  Harlaw Reservoir

-  Heriot Hill Terrace

-  Juniper Green

-  Longstone

-  Merchiston

-  Powderhall

-  Saughton

-  Slateford

-  Stenhouse

-  Stockbridge

-  Tanfield

-  Warriston

-  Warriston Cemetery  The Red Lady

7.

Leith

including Pilrig - half way
between Edinburgh and Leith

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-  Albion Road

-  Anderson Place

-  Assembly Rooms

-  Ballantyne Road

-  Bonnington Bond

-  Christening Pieces

-  Corunna Place

-  Capitol Picture House

-  Central Bar

-  Cooperage

-  Demarco's Ice Cream

-  Drinking in Leith

-  D K school  1950s

-  Dr Bell's school  1940s

-  Eldorado Dance Hall

-  Ferrier Street

-  First trip to sea

-  Fort

-  Gaiety and other entertainment

-  Gordon Street

-  Growing up in Leith

-  Hamilton Street

-  Henderson Street

-  Kirkgate

-  Leith Cafés

-  Leith Digs and Flats

-  Leith Docks

-  Leith Fort

-  Leith Houses

-  Leith Milk Deliveries

-  Leith  World War II

-  Leith Nautical College

-  Leith Pageant  1964

-  Leith Place Names

-  Leith Poem

-  Leith Police

-  Leith Pubs  many long since gone

-  Leith Questions

-  Leith Searching for People

-  Leith Snooker Halls

-  Leith Shipping

-  Leith Shops

-  Leith Street Names

-  Leith Swimming

-  Leith Tattoo Parlour

-  Leith Walk

-  Leith Wireless

-  Leith Wrestling

-  Leith Wild Cat

-  Lindsay Road

-  Links Primary School

-  Madeira Street

-  Manderston Street

-  North Fort Street

-  Ocean Mist

-  Parliament Street

-  Pilrig  1950s-60s

-  Pitt Street  Leith

-  Primrose Street

-  Sailing to Leith

-  Sailing to Leith on MV Cairndhu

-  Scandinavian Seamen's Church

-  Sheriff Brae

-  The Shore

-  Sun Ray Treatment

-  Union Street  1940s

-  Whaling from Leith  ancestors

-  Wild Cat

-  Winter of 1947

-  Yardheads closes

-  Yardheads Brewery

8.

Newhaven

-  Newhaven

-  Newhaven  -  Annfield

-  Newhaven  -  Coach Outing

-  Newhaven  -  Fishwives

-  Newhaven  -  Going Fishing

-  Newhaven  -  Old Chain Pier

-  Newhaven  -  Old Chain Pier and Harbour  1930s

-  Newhaven  -  Pageant  1953

-  Newhaven  -  Peacock Inn

-  Newhaven  -  Police Box and Market Buffet

-  Newhaven  - Starbank Park

9.

Scotland

Borders

-  Peebles

Caithness

-  Altnabreac Station: Caithness

Central

-  Grangemouth

East Lothian

-  Farming  1870s-90s

-  Musselburgh + Inveresk

-  Musselburgh Races

-  Musselburgh to Edinburgh Travel

-  North Berwick  model yacht

Fife

-  Kinghorn

-  North Queensferry

Glasgow

-  Glasgow Co-op Picnics

Midlothian           -   Bilston

-  Loanhead

-  Middleton Camp

-  Milton Bridge

-  Pentland Hills

-  Polton Farm

-  Rosewell

-  Whitehill and Bonnyrigg

West Lothian

-  Kirkliston

-  Kirknewton

 10.

Edinburgh Entertainment + Hobbies

-  The Astoria  Corstorphine cinema

-  Athletics

-  Ballroom Dancing Classes

-  Beehive Inn Restaurant

-  Beverley / Blue Halls Cinema

-  Boxing

-  Cafés and Restaurants

-  Capitol Picture House  Leith

-  Cinemas and Theatres

-  Circus

-  Clubs and Discos  Recollections 1-100

-  Clubs and Discos  Recollections 101-200

-  Clubs and Discos  Recollections 201 onwards

-  Collecting Football Cards

-  Cycling

-  Dance Bands

-  Dance Halls

-  Daniel Stewart's College

-  Early Circuses and Entertainers

-  The Embers  Dumbiedykes

-  Empire Theatre

-  Edinburgh Aero Club

-  Football

-  Free Activities

-  Golf

-  Gonk Club  Tollcross

-  Ice Skating

-  James Brown  Melodion Player

-  Johnny and the Falcons  Dumbiedykes

-  The Jokers

-  King's Theatre

-  Ladies' Fashions

-  Lascala Cinema

-  Men's Fashions

-  Murrayfield Ice Rink  - Music

-  Murrayfield Ice Rink - Skating

-  Musselburgh Races

-  New Palais -  later McGoo's

-  New Victoria Cinema

-  Observatory

-  Palais de Danse

-  Pantomimes and Theatres

-  Palladium  East Fountainbridge

-  Picnics

-  Politics

-  Popular Music

-  Portobello Marine Gardens

-  Pubs

-  Radio Programmes

-  Skating

-  Sparta Amateur Boxing Club

-  Street Entertainment

-  Students' Rag Week

-  Swimming Baths

-  Television

-  Theatre Royal

-  Youth Hostelling

11.

Edinburgh Schools and Colleges

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Schools

-  Edinburgh Schools

-  Abbeyhill School

-  Ainslie Park School

-  All Saints School

-  Balgreen School Class  1936-37

-  Basil Paterson Tutorial College

-  Bellevue School  1946-50

-  Blackhall Primary School

-  Bonnington Primary School

-  Boroughmuir School

-  Broughton High School

-  Brunstane Primary School

-  Bruntsfield Primary School

-  Burdiehouse School

-  Canonmills Primary School

-  Cargilfield School

-  Castle Hill Primary School

-  Corstorphine School Class  1938

-  Couper Street School, Leith

-  Craigentinny Primary School

-  Craiglockhart Primary School

-  Craigmillar Primary School

-  Craigmuir Primary School

-  Dalry Primary School

-  Daniel Stewart's College

-  Darroch School

-  David Kilpatrick School, Leith

-  Dean Orphanage

-  Dean Village School

-  Donaldson's College

-  Dr Bell's School  around 1920

-  Dr Bell's school   from 1940s

-  Dr Guthrie's School for boys, Gilmerton

-  Drumbrae Primary School

-  Drylaw Primary School

-  Duddingston Primary School

-  Edinburgh Academy

-  Edinburgh Castle School

-  Flora Stevenson's School

-  Fox Covert School

-  George Heriots

-  George Watson's Ladies' College

-  George Watson's College

-  Granton School   1940s + 1950

-  Granton School   1962

-  Hailesland School

-  Heriot's

-  Hermitage Park Primary School  Centenary 2010

-  Holy Cross Academy

-  Hyvot's Bank Primary School

-  James Clark School  1961 photo

-  James Clark School

-  James Clark School  Reunion

-  James Gillespie's School

-  John Watson School

-  Leith Academy  1952, class 3C2

-  Leith Academy

-  Leith Links School

-  Leith Walk Primary School  1957

-  Links Primary School

-  Lismore Primary School

-  Lochend Primary School

-  London Street Primary School

-  Lorne Street School

-  Mary Erskine School

-  Melville College

-  Milton House Primary School

-  Moray House

-  Morningside: 'The Cuddy School'

-  Mrs Guthrie's 'Toy' School, Stockbridge

-  Murrayburn School

-  Napier College  Now Napier University

-  Niddrie Marischal School

-  Normal Practising School

-  North Fort Street Primary School

-  North Merchiston streets around the Primary School

-  North Merchiston School

-  North Merchiston School  photo, around 1944

-  Norton Park Secondary School

-  Old Pentland School

-  Orwell Primary School

-  Parsons Green

-  Parsons Green School  1948-49

-  Peffermill Tin School

-  Pennywell Primary School

-  Pentland High School

-  Pilton Primary School

-  Police Road Safety Unit  Visits to Primary Schools

-  Portobello High School

-  Preston Street School  around 1950-51 

-  Preston Street School  around 1952

-  Preston Street School

-  Prestonfield Primary School

-  Queen Margaret's PNEU School

-  Roseburn Primary School

-  Royal High School

-  Royal Mile Primary School

-  Royston Primary School

-  Royston Primary School  class photo, 1946

-  St Ann's & St Patrick's Schools

-  St Ann's School  and playground

-  St Anthony's School

-  St Anthony's School  class photo

-  St Bernard's Primary School

-  St David's School

-  St Francis' School

-  St Hilda's School

-  St Ignatius School

-  St John's School  Portobello, 1920s-50s

-  St John's School  Portobello, from 1950s

-  St Margaret's Convent

-  St Mary's Primary School  York Lane

-  St Mary's Primary School Henderson Street

-  St Ninian's Primary School

-  St Patrick's School

-  St Saviour's Child Garden

-  St Serf's School

-  St Thomas of Aquin's School

-  Sciennes Primary School

-  South Bridge School

-  South Morningside School

-  Southhouse School

-  Stenhouse School

-  Stockbridge Primary School

-  Tollcross Primary School

-  Tollcross Primary School  early 1950s

-  Tollcross Primary School - visit 1985

-  Towerbank School

-  Trinity Academy  from 1940s

-  Trinity Academy to Empire Exhibition - 1938

-  Tynecastle Secondary School

-  Usher Hall  Secondary Schools Concert:  1971

-  Victoria Primary School

-  Wardie School  -  1930s   1940s   1950s   1960s    1970s    1980s

-  Watson's

-  Wester Hailes Education Centre

More Class Photos

-  Schools

School Camps

-  Middleton Residential School Camp  near Borthwick Castle

-  Broomlea School Camp  near West Linton

Edinburgh University

-  Rectorial Battle Day

-  Student Life

-  Student's Rag Week

12.

Transport

Buses and Coaches

-  Bus, Tram & Train Journeys

-  Bus Route 19

-  Bus Tours

-  Buses and Trams  Toilet Blocks

-  Cable Cars

-  Central Garage  Annandale Street

-  Coach Tours from Edinburgh

-  Cycling

-  Edinburgh Airport

-  Edinburgh Corporation Transport  Fitzpayne

-  Edinburgh Corporation Transport  Charlie Carroll

-  Gas-Powered Buses

-  George Hunter's coaches: Loanhead

-  German Open-top Cars  Hitler or Goring

-  Horse-drawn trams

-  Leith Bus Depot  Outings + Parties

-  Lothian Buses  bus tracker system

-  Newbattle School Bus Accident  near Newtongrange

-  Railway to Texaco Oil Plant

-  SMT buses

-  Steam Buses

-  Steam-powered Lorries

-  Trains

-  Trams

-  William Stewart's coaches  Dalkeith

-  School Buses

Cars, Vans, Lorries

-  Belgrave Motors

-  Milk Floats and Bakers' Vans

-  Pentland Garage

-  Wood's Garage

Ferries

-  Granton-Burntisland Ferry

-  Queensferry Ferry

Railways

-  Caledonian Station

-  Granton Railway  1960s-1980s

-  Granton Road Station

-  The Innocent Railway

-  Last Steam Trains  Edinburgh area

-  Line to Leith North Station

-  Leith Stations

-  Musselburgh to Edinburgh

-  Princes Street Station

-  St Margaret's Railway Depot

Ships

-  Sailing to Leith

-  Concrete Ships  built at Granton

Steam Rollers

in and around Edinburgh

-  Midlothian

Trams

-  Edinburgh's Last Tram

-  Luggage on Trams

-  North Bridge

-  Trams during WW2

-  Tramcar Adventures

Growing up with Transport

-  Cars, Boats and Planes

13.

Edinburgh at War

and the years following the War

-  Air Raids, Shelters and Bombs

-  Aircraft

-  Army Service

-  ATC

-  ATS question

-  Albert Docks, Leith  crates for US army trucks

-  Botanic Garden

-  British Ropes

-  Christmas and Hogmanay

-  Colinton

-  Combined Cadet Force  (CCF)

-  Dr Bell's school  1940s

-  Edinburgh at War  These are the first recollections that I received

-  Edinburgh Civil Defence Messenger Service  1940s

-  Evacuation

-  Evacuation  -  to near Peebles

-  Food

-  Guide to Edinburgh Air Raid Shelters

-  Haymarket

-  Hutments  constructed 1920s

-  Lochend

-  Leith

-  Marchmont Bomb

-  Newhaven

-  Pentland Hills

-  Pilton Bomb  1940

-  Play  Edinburgh During the War Years

-  Police Boxes

-  Portobello

-  Post-war years  from 1945

-  Prefab Housing  constructed 1940s/ ealy-1950s

-  Princes Street Gardens

-  Prisoners of War  Dalmahoy Camp

-  Prisoners of War  -  farm workers

-  Rations

-  Royal Mail  Pillar Boxes

-  Royston -  around 1940

-  School

-  Shopping - during and after WW2

-  Squadrons

-  Toys

-  Trinity Academy  - 1940s

-  Vaccinations

-  The War Effort

-  Wartime Housing

-  World War II  -  documents

14.

Edinburgh at Work

    ©

-  Acme Farms Dairy

-  W G Adams:  Butcher, Dalkeith

-  Alexander's Ford Dealership

-  Annandale Motors

-  Asa Wass:  rag and bone man + scrap yard

-  Auto Sales

-  Baker:  Lambert's, Kerr's, Mack's, Crawford's, University

-  Baird the Bootmaker

-  Baird's Shoe Shop

-  Barron's:  rag merchants

-  Bank of Scotland

-  Baxters the Butchers

-  Beaverbank industries  -  1940s

-  Beaverbank Motors

-  Ben Line

-  Bertram's  Engineers

-  Beveridge grocer at Gilmerton - 1950s-60s

-  D Brotchie & Sons  Coal Merchants

-  Broughton Industries

-  Brown Brothers

-  Bruce Peebles  Engineering Works

-  Buttercup Dairy Company

-  Caledonian Brewery

-  Campbell Harper  photographers

-  Central Edinburgh Shops

-  Central Garage  Annandale Street

-  E Chalmers & Co

-  Charles Alexander & Partners

-  Chimney Sweeps

-  City Hospital

-  JP Cochrane

-  Colin McAndrew & Partners builders

-  Coltart  net works at Granton

-  Co-op  Henderson Street, Leith

-  Cowan's Yard

-  Cox's Glue Works  Gorgie

-  Crawford's Biscuits  Leith

-  Decorating

-  Devlin  trawler owners

-  Drambuie

-  Dunbar & Co soft drinks

-  Duncan's Chocolates

-  Edinburgh & Dumfriesshire Dairy Co

-  East Preston Street  chimney sweeps

-  Edinburgh Direct Aid

-  Edinburgh University

-  Edinburgh Corporation Transport  Buses and City Cars

-  Electrician

-  Ethicon

-  Farm workers and Wimpey workers

-  Fell & Mathieson  plumbers

-  Ferranti

-  Forth Bridge

-  Frosts' Furnishing Shop

-  Furness Withy  Leith Docks

-  George Brown & Sons  boatyard

-  George Gibson:  Leith

-  The Grove Bar

-  John Glindinning & Sons - Plumbers

-  George Greenhill & Son  painters

-  George Hunter's coaches: Loanhead

-  Gibson's  Leith:  Cycles and Aeroplanes

-  Granton Harbour  -  Brown, Blacksmith, WW1

-  Granton Harbour  -  T L Devlin, trawler owners

-  Granton Harbour  -  Testimonial, 1878

-  Granton Ice Works

-  Hawthorn's Shipbuilders  -  Leith

-  Haymarket Railway Depot

-  Henry Robb's Ship Yards  Leith

-  Hislop & Day

-  Holyrood Breweries

-  House of Clydesdale

-  Hutchison's Garage

-  Ice Cream Van

-  Ingin Johnny

-  Jaeger  -  Princes Street shop

-  James Bertram & Sons  -  Engineers

-  James Bowen & Sons  Garage

-  James Dunbar  Lemonade

-  Jenners  -  Princes Street shop

-  John Clephane & Sons

-  John Gibson & Son  Garage

-  John H Lunn  Removals

-  W & AK Johnson

-  A Kay  -  trawler owner

-  Kings of Glasgow

-  Leckie Coal Deliveries

-  Leith Bus Depot  Outings + Parties

-  Leith Co-op Milk Deliveries

-  Leith Docks  early 1900s

-  Leith Nautical College

-  Leith Police

-  Liberton Filtration Plant

-  Lonsdale & Dutch  Tinsmith

-  Lorimer & Clark's Brewery

-  Lothian Crisp Factory

-  Lothian Region Transport  Signwriting

-  Manclark & Son  tailors

-  Matheson, McLaren & Co tea and coffee

-  Mat Rooney  26 jobs

-  McKenzie chimney sweep

-  McVities Guest Bakery

-  Meadows Railway Yard

-  Merchiston Motors

-  Miller & Co  Foundry

-  Miler's Wireless

-  Moir & Baxter's garage

-  Morrison & Gibb

-  Murrayfield Dairy

-  Murray's Cooperage

-  National Bank of Scotland

-  Niddrie Mill Garage

-  North British Distillery

-  North British Rubber Works

-  Onion Johnny

-  Pentland Garage

-  Peter Victory  taxis

-  Photographer's Shop

-  Polar Ices

-  Police

-  Police  on Points Duty

-  Projectionists

-  Railways  -  Brunswick Road Goods Yard

-  Ramage & Ferguson

-  Road Works and Steam Rollers

-  Robert Cresser

-  Robert Croan

-  Robertson drayage business

-  Royal Blind Asylum

-  Saddler's Transport

-  St Cuthbert's Co-op Bakery

-  St Cuthbert's Co-op Milk Deliveries

-  St Cuthbert's Co-op Works Dept.

-  St Margaret's Railway Depot

-  Sax Shaw  Artist

-  Scottish Union / Norwich Union Insurance Co

-  Shades Potato Merchants

-  Shell UK Oil

-  SMT buses

-  SMT Sales & Service

-  Sonny Swinton

-  Steel Coulson's Brewery

-  Stewart Brothers  Wool Merchants

-  Stewart's Whisky Bonds St Leonard's + Prestonfield

-  Street Lighting

-  Street Sweeping  scaffies

-  T&H Smith

-  The Store (The Co-op including milk deliveries)

-  Thomas Nelson & Sons

-  Thomas 'Wingy' Robertson's Yard  Leith

-  Thomson & Porteous  tobacco, snuff, cigarettes, cigars

-  United Wire Works

-  VAT69 Whisky workers at Leith

-  Viewforth Coachworks

-  Waddel's Pork Butcher

-  Weston's Biscuits

-  Willie Heath  Motor Mechanic

-  VAT 69 whisky bond, Leith

-  whisky bond

-  Whytock & Reid

-  Wightman Family   Egg Merchants

-  William Stewart's coaches  Dalkeith

-  William Younger Brewery  Holyrood

-  Wood Brothers, fish merchants  Newhaven

-  Young Brothers bakery

-  Visits to Edinburgh Works

15.

Edinburgh Housing

and the years following the War

-  Household Bills and Notices

-  Prefab Housing  -  constructed 1940s

16.

Edinburgh Street Furniture

There are some recollections included amongst the photos that I have added to these sections of the EdinPhoto web site:

-  Gates and Railings

-  Street Lighting

-  Letter Boxes

-  Police Boxes

-  Posters and Adverts

-  Road Signs

-  Statues

-  Street Names

-  Telephone Boxes

17.

Film Clips and Films

-  Arthur Street  1961

-  Edinburgh Streets  1950

-  Old Sugarhouse Close  1939

-  Princes Street   Allies Week Parade 1942

-  St Cuthbert's Milk Deliveries  1967

-  Ritz Cinema Construction  1929

-  Singing in Edinburgh Streets  1950s

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 to the EdinPhoto web site, you will have to click on 'back'.

More Recollections?

Thank you to all for sharing your memories in and around Edinburgh.  I've been pleased to be able to add many memories to this site.  If you have any other memories, comments or questions that you'd like to share, please e-mail me

                                Thank you.        -  Peter Stubbs

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