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Hyvot's Bank Primary School |
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Recollections 1. Christine Lenton |
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Thank you to Christine Lenton who wrote: |
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1960s "I went to Hyvot's Bank Primary School from 1960 onwards. My mum was a cleaner at the school and sometimes a dinner lady Gilmerton was a great place back then. We always had lots to do. Nae of this xbox for us. Does anyone mind of Dirty Dick's or Dean Woods?" Christine Lenton. August 10, 2011 |
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Recollections 2. Bob Henderson Burdiehouse, Edinburgh |
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At least one person remembers the places that Christine Lenton mentions above! |
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Bob Henderson wrote: Dirty Dick's "When I was a boy in the late-1940s and early-1950s, Dirty Dick's was a working sandpit. It's now a pond in a Local Nature Reserve. Here is a sign on Straiton Road, just south of the Edinburgh By-Pass. Follow the path from this sign and it takes you to the pond. Dirty Dick's had very steep high sides with a steep sloping mass of loose sand at the bottom of the sheer drop. We used to jump from the top down into the slopes. I sometimes wonder how we survived to tell these tales!" |
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Dean Woods "The Dean Woods were on the west side of Lang Loan Road (the road from Straiton Roundabout to Lasswade Road) at the point where there is a deep dip in the road. The woods ran westwards down the slope towards the Burdiehouse Burn. The Dean Woods later became a site for clay pigeon shooting with several hides etc. to fire the clays from. It is no longer accessible from the road a large bank has been thrown up across the area which used to be the entrance. |
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Bob Henderson, Burdiehouse, Edinburgh: August 12, 2011 (3 emails) |
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