Recollections

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Edinburgh
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0.  Edinburgh Names and Slang

Penicuik Slang

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.   Around Edinburgh

10.   Edinburgh Entertainment + Hobbies

11.   Edinburgh Schools

12.   Edinburgh Transport

13.   Edinburgh at War

14.   Edinburgh at Work

15.   Scotland

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 -  Peter Stubbs

1.

Edinburgh -  Central

Old Town

including Dumbiedykes, St Leonards, South Side and Fountainbridge

©

-  Bannerman's Bar

-  Barron's Rag Merchants

-  Brown Street

-  Buccleuch Street

-  Canongate

-  Castlehill

-  Castlehill Primary School

-  Central Garage  Annandale Street

-  Chambers Street

-  Chessels Court

-  Cockburn Street

-  Cowgate

-  Cowgate area

-  Croft-an-Righ

-  Crosscauseway

-  Dalrymple Place

-  Deaconess Hospital

-  Drummond Street

-  Dumbiedykes -  after demolition

-  Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street  coal lorry

-  Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street  Thomas Cullen's shop

-  Dumbiedykes - Houses and Streets  1940s-1960s

-  Dumbiedykes - Factories and Shops  1950s

-  Dumbiedykes - Penny Tenement  1950s

-  Dumbiedykes - People and Play  1940s-1960s

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

-  Dumbiedykes - St Leonard's  1950s

-  Dumbiedykes - Searching for People

 - Dumbiedykes - Streets  A-G

-  Dumbiedykes - Streets  H-R

-  Dumbiedykes - Streets  S-Z

-  Dumbiedykes - 'The Embers'

-  Dumbiedykes - Tusi's ice cream shop

-  East Preston Street  chimney sweeps

-  Edinburgh Castle

-  Fleshmarket Close

-  Fountainbridge  Early recollections

-  Fountainbridge  from 1940s

-  The Grapes

-  The Grassmarket

-  Haymarket

-  High School Yards

-  High Street

-  Holyrood Palace

-  Holyrood Park

-  Holyrood Road

-  Hospitals

-  Infirmary Street Baths

-  James Clark School

-  James Wood  hairdresser

-  Jeannie Deans' Cottage

-  Jeannie Veitch's  sweetie shop

-  Keir Street

-  Lawnmarket

-  Milne's Court

-  Moubray House

-  The Meadows

-  Nicolson Street

-  Old Town Closes

-  Old Town Names

-  Pleasance

-  Pleasance  back greens

-  Ramsay Lane

-  Rutherford's Lounge Bar

-  St Ann's School

-  St John's Hill

-  St Leonard's Parish Church

-  St Mary's Street

-  St Patrick's Church

-  St Patrick Square

-  Searching for Poeple

-  Simon Square Wash House

-  South Clerk Street

-  South Side

-  South Side  Fringe Plays

-  Stewart's Bar

-  Tollcross

-  Tusi's sweetie shop

-  Upper Viewcraig Row

-  Upper Viewcraig  Low Road

New Town

-  Assembly Room Concerts

-  Atholl Crescent

-  Blenheim Place

-  Calton Hill

-  East London Street

-  Edinburgh  1950s

-  Floral Clock

-  Gladstone Monument

-  George Street

-  Great King Street

-  Greenside

-  Hillside

-  Jamaica Street

-  Jerome's Studio

-  Leith Street

-  Lothian Road

-  McDonald Road

-  Nelson Street

-  Picardy Place

-  Pitt Street

-  Princes Street

-  Rose Street

-  Ross Bandstand

-  St Andrew Square  'The American Hut''

-  St James Square

-  St Mary's Cathedral

-  Sinclair Fountain

-  Union Place

-  Waverley Market

-  Waverley Station

-  West End  Points Duty

Shops and Cafes

-  Baird's Shoe Shop

-  Cafes

-  Goldbergs Department Store

-  Hairdresser  Central Edinburgh

-  Jenners Store

-  Milk Bars

-  Patrick Thomson's  (PT's)

-  Shops  Central Edinburgh

-  Waverley Tailoring Co

-  Woolworths

Other Memories
and questions

-  Central Edinburgh

2.

Edinburgh  -  East

©

-  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

-  Duddingston

-  Duddingston Camp  1951

-  East Thomas Street  1930s-60s

-  East Thomas Street  neighbours

-  East William Street

-  Easter Road

-  Fisherrow Harbour

-  Greendykes

-  Joppa

-  Joppa  tram tracks

-  Lochend and Easter Road

-  Magdalene

-  Niddrie  1930s to1950s

-  Niddrie  1950s+1960s

-  Niddrie Mill

-  Niddrie Mill  Sunday School

-  Peffermill

-  Piershill

-  Pilrig  1950s

-  Portobello  early 1900s

-  Portobello  1930s-50s

-  Portobello  from 1950s

-  Portobello  1960s

-  Portobello Bathing Pool

-  Portobello Hotels early 1900s

-  Restalrig

-  Seafield

-  South Elgin Street

-  Whitehouse Public House

3.

Edinburgh  -  North

Boswall, Granton, Royston, Trinity, Wardie

©

-  Boswall + Granton + Trinity + Wardie  -  1940s

-  Boswall + Granton + Trinity + Wardie - 1950s to 1960s

-  Challenger Lodge

-  Comely Bank  1930s to 1980s

-  Comely Bank  Moir & Baxter's Garage

-  Craighall

-  Granton   1930s

-  Granton, Boswall, Royston  since 1940s

-  Granton  1950s

-  Granton 1950s to 1970s

-  Granton  1970s and 2000s

-  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 Ice Works  1950s-1970s

-  Granton Railway  1960s to 1980s

-  Leith Walk

-  Leith Walk Cafe

-  Lindsay Road and North Fort Street

-  Lochinvar Camp 1940s + 50s

-  Lomond Park

-  Newhaven

-  Old Chain Pier

-  Pennywell  1940s

-  Pilton

-  Pilton  1940 bomb

-  Royal Botanic Garden question

-  Royston  from 1930s

-  Royston 1970s

-  Starbank Inn  1970s

-  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

-  West Granton:  Gypsy Brae  1950s

-  West Granton:  Shops  1950s

-  Wester Drylaw

4.

Edinburgh  -  West

-  Broomhouse

-  Carrick Knowe

-  Corstorphine

-  Cramond

-  Cramond Island  1970s

-  Dalry

-  Davidson's Mains

-  Edinburgh Zoo

-  Glenburn Hotel

-  Gorgie

-  Gorgie mills

-  Gorgie and Chesser

-  Gorgie Station

-  Hailes Quarry

-  Hutchison and Chesser

-  Merchiston

-  Murrayfield

-  South Queensferry  Port Edgar

-  Union Canal

-  Western General Hospital

-  Whitson

See also 'Edinburgh - By the Water of Leith' below.

5.

Edinburgh  -  South

-  Bruntsfield

-  Bruntsfield  shinty

-  Burdiehouse

-  City Hospital

-  Gilmerton

-  Gladstone Terrace

-  Gracemount

-  Happy Valley

-  Liberton

-  Liberton Brae

-  Newington

-  Peffermill and Prestonfield

-  St Leonard's

-  St Margaret's Convent

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

©

-  Baberton House

-  Beaverbank industries  - 1940s

-  Bellevue

-  Bellevue - milk deliveries

-  Bonnington

-  Bonnington - filming

-  Broughton

-  Broughton - streets & houses

-  Broughton - buses

-  Canonmills - 1940s

-  Canonmills - 1950s

-  Colinton

-  Craiglockhart Dell

-  Craiglockhart Military Hospital

-  Gorgie Road

-  Harlaw Reservoir

-  Juniper Green

-  Longstone

-  Merchiston

-  Powderhall

-  Saughton

-  Slateford

-  Stenhouse

-  Stockbridge

-  Warriston

-  Warriston Cemetery  The Red Lady

7.

Leith

including Pilrig - half way
between Edinbrugh and Leith

©

-  Anderson Place

-  Ballantyne Road

-  Bonnington Bond

-  Christening Pieces

-  Corunna Place

-  Capitol Picture House

-  Cooperage

-  Demarco's Ice Cream

-  Drinking in Leith

-  D K school  1950s

-  Dr Bell's school  1940s

-  First trip to sea

-  Fort Place

-  Gaiety Leith

-  Hamilton Street

-  Henderson Street

-  Kirkgate

-  Leith Digs

-  Leith Docks  1930s-60s

-  Leith Fort

-  Leith Houses

-  Leith Milk Deliveries

-  Leith  World War II

-  Leith Names

-  Leith Nautical College

-  Leith - Our Old Radio

-  Leith Pageant  1964

-  Leith Poem

-  Leith Police

-  Leith Pubs  many long since gone

-  Leith Questions

-  Leith Searching for People

-  Leith Snooker Halls

-  Leith Shipping

-  Leith Streets

-  Leith Tattoo Parlour

-  Leith Walk

-  Leith Wrestling

-  Leith Wild Cat

-  Lindsay Road

-  North Fort Street

-  Pilrig  1950s-60s

-  The Shore

-  Sun Ray Treatment

-  Union Street  1940s

-  Whaling from Leith  ancestors

-  Wild Cat

-  Winter of 1947

-  Yardheads closes

-  Yardheads Brewery

8.

Newhaven

-  Newhaven   -  1970s and 2000s

-  Newhaven  -  Annfield

-  Newhaven  -  Coach Outing

-  Newhaven  -  Fishwives

-  Newhaven  -  Old Chain Pier

-  Newhaven  -  Old Chain Pier and Harbour  1930s

-  Newhaven  -  Pageant  1953

-  Newhaven  -  Peacock Inn

-  Newhaven  -  Police Box and Market Buffet

9.

Around Edinburgh

East Lothian

-  Farming  1870s-90s

-  North Berwick  model yacht

Fife

-  Kinghorn

-  North Queensferry

Midlothian

-  Middleton Camp

-  Milton Bridge

-  Pentland Hills

-  Polton Farm

-  Rosewell

-  Whitehill and Bonnyrigg

 10.

Edinburgh Entertainment + Hobbies

-  The Astoria  Corstorphine cinema

-  Ballroom Dancing Classes

-  Beehive Inn Restaurant

-  Beverley / Blue Halls Cinema

-  Boxing

-  Capitol Picture House  Leith

-  Cinemas and Theatres

-  Circus

-  Clubs and Discos

-  Collecting Football Cards

-  Cycling

-  Dance Bands

-  Dance Halls

-  Early Circuses and Entertainers

-  The Embers  Dumbiedykes

-  Empire Theatre

-  Edinburgh Aero Club

-  Football

-  Free Activities

-  Golf

-  Gonk Club  Tollcross

-  Johnny and the Falcons  Dumbiedykes

-  The Jokers

-  King's Theatre

-  Lascala Cinema

-  Men's Fashions

-  Murrayfield Ice Rink

-  Musselburgh Races

-  New Palais -  later McGoo's

-  New Town Clubs

-  New Victoria Cinema

-  Observatory

-  Palais de Danse

-  Radio Programmes

-  Pantomime

-  Palladium  East Fountainbridge

-  Politics

-  Popular Music

-  Portobello Marine Gardens

-  Sparta Amateur Boxing Club

-  Street Entertainment

-  Students' Rag Week

-  Swimming Baths

-  Theatre Royal

-  Youth Hostelling

11.

Edinburgh Schools

©

Schools

-  Abbeyhill School

-  Ainslie Park School

-  Balgreen School Class  1936-37

-  Basil Paterson Tutorial College

-  Bellevue School  1946-50

-  Broughton School

-  Bonnington Primary School

-  Boroughmuir School  1950s to 1980s

-  Burdiehouse School

-  Castlehill Primary School

-  Corstorphine School Class  1938

-  Couper Street School, Leith

-  Craiglockhart Primary School since 1940s

-  Craigmillar Primary School

-  Prestonfield School

-  Darroch School

-  David Kilpatrick school, Leith - 1940s + 1950s

-  Donaldson's College

-  Dean Orphanage

-  Dr Bell's School  around 1920

-  Dr Bell's school   1940s

-  Drylaw Primary School

-  George Heriots

-  Granton School   1940s + 1950

-  Granton School   1962

-  Hermitage Park Primary School  Centenary 2010

-  James Clark School  1961 photo

-  James Clark School

-  John Watson School  Sports Day 1965

-  Leith Academy  1952, class 3C2

-  Leith Academy

-  Leith Walk Primary School  1947

-  Leith Walk Primary School  1957

-  London Street Primary School

-  Lorne Street School

-  Milton House Primary School  1960s

-  Murrayburn School

-  Niddrie Marischal School

-  North Fort Street Primary School

-  North Merchiston streets around the Primary School

-  North Merchiston School  1938-39

-  North Merchiston School  around 1940

-  North Merchiston School  around 1944

-  Norton Park Secondary School

-  Peffermill Tin School

-  Pilton Primary School

-  Preston Street School  around 1950-51 

-  Preston Street School around 1952

-  Preston Street School

-  Prestonfield Primary School

-  Roseburn Primary School

-  Royal High School

-  Royston Primary School

-  Royston Primary School  class photo, 1946

-  St Ann's School

-  St Ann's School  and playground

-  St Anthony's School

-  St David's School

-  St John's School  Portobello

-  St Hilda's School

-  St Ignatius School

-  St Margaret's Convent

-  St Mary's Primary School  York Lane

-  St Mary's Primary School Henderson Street

-  St Pat's School

-  St Thomas of Aquin's School

-  Stenhouse School

-  South Bridge School

-  Tollcross Primary School  early 1950s

-  Tollcross Primary School - visit 1985

-  Towerbank School netball team  1948

-  Trinity Academy to Empire Exhibition - 1938

-  Trinity Academy  from 1940s

-  Tynecastle Secondary School

-  Usher Hall  Secondary Schools Concert:  1971

-  Victoria School  1950s

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

More Class Photos

-  Schools

School Camps

-  Middleton Residential School Camp  near Borthwick Castle

-  Broomlea School Camp  near West Linton

12.

Transport

Buses and Coaches

-  Bus Route 19

-  Cable Cars

-  Central Garage  Annandale Street

-  Edinburgh Airport

-  Edinburgh Corporation Transport  Fitzpayne

-  Edinburgh Corporation Transport  Charlie Carroll

-  Gas-Powered Buses

-  George Hunter's coaches: Loanhead

-  Lothian Buses  bus tracker system

-  Newbattle School Bus Accident  near Newtongrange

-  SMT buses

-  Steam-powered Lorries

-  Bus and Tram Journeys

-  William Stewart's coaches: Dalkeith

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

-  Last Steam Trains  Edinburgh area

-  Leith Stations

-  Musselburgh to Edinburgh

Trams

-  Edinburgh's Last Tram

-  Luggage on Trams

-  North Bridge

-  Trams during WW2

-  Tramcar Adventures

13.

Edinburgh at War

and the years following the War

-  Air Raids, Shelters and Bombs

-  Albert Docks, Leith  -  crates for US Army trucks

-  Christmas and Hogmanay

-  Colinton - 1940s

-  Combined Cadet Force  (CCF)

-  Dr Bell's school  -  1940s

-  Edinburgh at War  -  1939-45

-  Edinburgh Civil Defence Messenger Service  1940s

-  Evacuation  -  to near Peebles

-  Evacuation  -  to Hawick

-  Food

-  Guide to Edinburgh Air Raid Shelters

-  Leith  mini-Blitz

-  Pentland Hills

-  Pilton Bomb  1940

-  Play  Edinburgh During the War Years

-  Post-war years  from 1945

-  Prefab Housing  -  constructed 1940s

-  Prisoners of War  -  farm workers

-  Rations

-  Royston -  around 1940

-  Shopping - during and after WW2

-  Trinity Academy  - 1940s

-  World War II  -  documents

14.

Edinburgh at Work

   ©

-  W G Adams:  Butcher, Dalkeith

-  Asa Wass:  rag and bone man + scrap yard

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

-  Barron's:  rag merchants

-  Baxters the Butchers

-  Beaverbank industries  -  1940s

-  Beaverbank Motors

-  Beveridge grocer at Gilmerton - 1950s-60s

-  Broughton Industries

-  Bruce Peebles  Engineering Works

-  Buttercup Dairy Company

-  Campbell Harper  photographers

-  Central Garage  Annandale Street

-  Chimney Sweeps

-  JP Cochrane

-  Colin McAndrew & Partners builders

-  Coltart  net works at Granton

-  Co-op  Henderson Street, Leith

-  Cowan's Yard

-  Crawford's Biscuits  Leith

-  Decorating

-  Devlin  trawler owners

-  Drambuie

-  Duncan's Chocolates

-  East Preston Street  chimney sweeps

-  Edinburgh University

-  Edinburgh Corporation Transport  Buses and City Cars

-  Electrician

-  Ethicon

-  Farm workers and Wimpey workers

-  Fell & Mathieson  plumbers

-  Furness Withy  Leith Docks

-  George Brown & Sons  boatyard

-  George Gibson:  Leith

-  George Greenhill & Son  painters

-  George Hunter's coaches: Loanhead

-  Granton Harbour  -  Brown, Blacksmith, WW1

-  Granton Harbour  -  T L Devlin, trawler owners

-  Granton Ice Works

-  Hawthorn's Shipbuilders  -  Leith

-  Haymarket Railway Depot

-  Henry Robb's Ship Yards  Leith

-  Holyrood Breweries

-  House of Clydesdale

-  Jaeger  -  Princes Street shop

-  Kings of Glasgow

-  Leith Docks  early 1900s

-  Lothian Crisp Factory

-  Leith Co-op Milk Deliveries

-  Leith Nautical College

-  Leith Police

-  Manclark & Son  tailors

-  Matheson, McLaren & Co tea and coffee

-  Mat Rooney  26 jobs

-  McKenzie chimney sweep

-  Merchiston Motors

-  Moir & Baxter's garage

-  Murray's Cooperage

-  National Bank of Scotland

-  Niddrie Mill Garage

-  North British Distillery

-  North British Rubber Works

-  Pentland Garage

-  Peter Victory  taxis

-  Police

-  Projectionists

-  Road Works and Steam Rollers

-  Royal Blind Asylum

-  St Cuthbert's Milk Horses

-  Shades Potato Merchants

-  SMT buses

-  SMT Sales & Service

-  Street Sweeping  scaffies

-  The Store (The Co-op)

-  Thomas Nelson & Sons

-  Thomas 'Wingy' Robertson's Yard  Leith

-  Thomson & Porteous  tobacco, snuff, cigarettes, cigars

-  United Wire Works

-  Viewforth Coachworks

-  Whisky Bond

-  William Stewart's coaches  Dalkeith

-  William Younger Brewery  Holyrood

-  Wood Brothers, fish merchants  Newhaven

-  Young Brothers bakery

15.

Scotland

Central

-  Grangemouth

North

-  Altnabreac Station: Caithness

South

-  Near Peebles

West

-  Glasgow Co-op Picnics

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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