Recollections Craigmillar and Niddrie 1970s onwards |
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Pauline BONILLA |
- Bingo - Shops |
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Iain |
- Cinema - Sisters - Memories - 2007 |
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Liz CAMPBELL |
- Memories |
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Ann VALENTINE |
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Davy TURNER |
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Eric GOLD |
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Tony IVANOV |
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Jim CAIRNS |
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Ian BIRKS |
- Family - Today |
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Alec GALLACHER |
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Terry
McGUIRE |
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Recollections 1. Recollections by Pauline Bonilla USA |
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Thank you to Pauline Bonilla formerly Pauline Macgregor now living in the USA, for sending me the following memories of Craigmillar. Pauline is hoping to make contact with some of the people she grew up with in Craigmillar, including the girl that used to live around the corner from the launderette. If you remember Pauline Macgregor and would like to contact her again, please e-mail me and I will pass on your message to her. Thank you. - Peter Stubbs |
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Updates I received messages from Keith Manson, Niddrie (May 2007) and Pat Froy (March 17, 2008) both wishing to contact Pauline. I've passed the messages on to Pauline. Pauline emailed me on March 18, 2008 to tell me that she had "finally found the lassie that lived around the corner from the Launderette". Incidentally, after lying empty for a long time, the launderette at the corner of Wauchope Crescent and Wauchope Avenue was finally demolished on March 8, 2008. There are now only three of the old blocks of housing still standing in Craigmillar, all unoccupied. - Peter Stubbs: March 18, 2008 |
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Pauline Bonilla wrote: |
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"I was brought up in 5/3 Harewood Road from around 1975, and moved to Peffermill Road around 1985 when I was in primary 7. |
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"Seeing these pictures brings back so many memories. The County was a Bingo place when I was growing up. We all use to hang around the Bingo and that and the chippy." |
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"I use to muck about with a lassie that lived around the corner from the launderette." |
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"Do you by any chance have pictures of the houses on Harewood Crescent? I know the house are gone now, but this is where my Mum lived last before she died. |
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""The Whitehouse' is or was a pub that my Mum use to drink in along with the Tavern, they were owned by the same people, |
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"Your pictures of shops [I'm not sure which picture!] show what used to be the chippy and the shop an number 21 where I use to buy cider from and drink and smoke in that stair. One of my boy friends lived above the shop in number 21. |
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"I moved to the US in 89 and lost touch with almost all my friends, my Mum is dead now so I do not get home often BUT these pictures are precious to me." "I saw the picture of Prestonfield House on your web site:. I used to work there, and that is how I came to America. I was a chamber maid and met Americans that wanted my friend to come over for three months. She did not want to go so I thought 'What the hell, why not!' So I did, and have been here for almost 18 years. My brother was a kitchen porter and eventually became a chef and then turned into an Executive Chef." |
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Pauline Bonilla, USA: September 7, 11, 12, 19, 2006 |
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Recollections 2. Recollections by Iain |
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Thank you to Iain who replied to Pauline's comments above. Iain wrote: |
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"Pauline is hoping to make contact with some of the people she grew up with in Craigmillar, including the girl that used to live around the corner from the launderette. My names Iain. I was born in the 1970s and lived at Wauchope Crescent , Craigmillar. I cant remember what the number of stair was, but it was next to the back of the cinema." |
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"I remember it being a cinema before I moved away. I used to sneak into it, as there was a small door at the back, haha," |
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"There was a launderette on the corner, and before that there was a grocery shop named Frazer's, owned by an English man, about 45-50 yr old |
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"I had 3 sisters, Anne-Marie, Lorna and Donna, They stayed with my mum and dad. I was the third oldest, and the only brother. I was brought up there until the house went on fire. We were at the top of the stairs and there was a man and woman who stayed on the bottom floor with a three-legged dog. |
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"My mum also had a friend next door called Isabell Clooney and she had a daughter named Teresa. I remember calling her aunty Isabell but found out after a few years that it was my mums best friend. I am looking for Teresa Clooney Clooney as she holds something I was always dreamed of." |
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"Ahhh, Craigmillar, eh! I didn't think it would change. I remember: - the painting of Craigmillar School in our dining room - the mermaid that was built one summer at Bingham tunnel. - The chip shop at the bottom of Hay Drive. |
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Recollections 3. Recollections by Liz Campbell |
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Thank you to Liz Campbell, who was born in Leith, then lived in Niddrie from 1962 to 1988, who wrote: |
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"So many memories: - The County Cinema. - The launderette,. - The White House. My grandad lived in Wauchope Avenue, straight across from the County. We lived in Wauchope Place. To see all the places like: - the Venchie: I spent loads of time there - Sandy's Club - my old primary school: the only thing still standing how sad, its all gone now. It brings back so many memories of great times and even greater friends, spending all our time in the back greens playing rounders and kick-the-can. It was just the best place ever. Sadly we all grew up moved away and lost touch." Liz Campbell, Manchester, Lancashire, England: November 16, 2008 |
