Recollections - South Edinburgh
Liberton |
Recollections |
1.
|
Matt Rooney
Ayrshire, Scotland
|
Baxters
the
Butchers
|
2.
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Dave Woolard
Edinburgh
|
Liberton Dams |
3.
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Bob Henderson
Burdiehouse, Edinburgh
|
Baxters Butchers
Bike
and Basket
Hens
The
Baxter Family
Wages |
4.
|
Matt Rooney
Ayrshire, Scotland
|
Baxters Butchers |
5. |
Jack White
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Liberton Farm
Milk
Deliveries |
6. |
Paul
Sutherland
Glasgow, Scotland
|
Liberton Lawn Tennis Club |
7. |
Richard Kent
Leith, Edinburgh
and reply from
Richard Kent
Leith, Edinburgh
|
Liberton St Agnus |
8. |
Alastair Berry
Nanaimo,
Vancouver Island,
British Columbia, Canada
|
Neighbours
Wartime
Meadowhead Farm
Farm Workers
The Mill
Other Jobs
Emigration |
9. |
Robert T Russell
Minnesota, USA
|
Liberton
High School |
10. |
Thomas Cook
Gracemount, Edinburgh
|
Schools at Liberton |
11. |
Frank White
Blackley, Manchester, England
|
Poor Clare's Convent
-
Sister Anthony |
12. |
Danny Callaghan
Blackley, Manchester, England
|
Poor Clare's Convent
|
13. |
Allan Dodds
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England |
Dr Guthrie's Approved School
|
14. |
Alastair Berry
Nanaimo,
Vancouver Island,
British Columbia, Canada
|
Beekeeping |
15. |
Joanna Miller
Liberton, Edinburgh
|
Kingston Avenue Building
- Question |
15.
Reply
1. |
Ken Mortimer
|
Craigend Dairy
Cramond Island Dairy
Craigend Community
By
the Campsite
The
Wild Ram |
16. |
Allan Dodds
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
|
Shopping
- Grandpa and his dog, 'Dandy' |
17. |
Ronald Wilson
|
Liberton Lawn Tennis Club |
18. |
Dense Weren
New Zealand
|
Matthew Alexander - Question |
19. |
Sal Calvin
Egremont, Cumbria, England
|
Poor Clares Convent
-
Sister Mary Veronica |
20. |
Ronnie Murphy
West Yorkshire, England
|
Liberton Golf Course
|
21. |
Lorraine Edwards
Burdiehouse, Edinburgh
|
Question:
- Captain's Road carving
|
22. |
Shaun Ward
|
Bottle
and Glass |
1.
Matt Rooney
Ayrshire, Scotland |
Thank you to Matt Rooney, New Cumnock. Ayrshire, Scotland, for the
recollections the second of his many jobs in and around Edinburgh,
working for Baxters the Butchers at Liberton Dams |
Baxters
the
Butchers
"I worked for Baxters the Butchers at
Liberton Dams.
Miss O'Dair (?) - I'm not too
sure of the spelling - gave me a penny to get the tram
up to Liberton proper with a huge basket of meat parcels for the big
houses in that area and across to Lasswade Road. I then had to
walk back down with the Empty Basket
Going in the other direction, towards the
University Annexe up at the cross roads and back again, on one
December morning, I found half a crown and a penny in the snow,
This
was at a time when a butcher boy's wages were £1 per week and my
mum, being a widow, giving me six pence pocket money, so that I
could spend it at the local cinema, three pence for the pictures and
three pence for sweets. We could buy Mackays toffee in the same type
of coloured paper as they use today."
Matt Rooney, ( now aged 73), Ayrshire, Scotland August 2005
|
2.
Dave Woolard
Edinburgh |
Thank you to Dave Woolard who wrote about picnics in
Liberton, in the south of Edinburgh.
Dave refers to Eastie (East Arthur Place), Middlie
(Middle Arthur Place) and Arthur Street. These are all streets in
Dumbiedykes, near Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, where Dave and his family used
to live.
Dave wrote:
|
Liberton Dams
"Most families from Eastie Middlie and
Arthur street would go for picnic on a Sunday to Liberton Dams if the
weather was nice.
There was a wee burn ran through the glen so
we used collect stones and build dams to make the water deeper."
Dave Woolard, Edinburgh:
February 12, 2007 |
3.
Bob Henderson
Burdiehouse, Edinburgh |
Thank you to Bob
Henderson for his memories of working at Liberton.
Bob wrote
|
Baxters Butchers
"Before I started my
slater's apprenticeship at the age of fifteen, I worked with JB
Baxters at the foot of Liberton Brae.
By that time, in the first few
months of 1954, we had moved on from Matt Rooney's experience at Baxters
(See 1 above)."
Bike and Basket
"We
had a bike with a large basket on the front. Matt used to have to
walk up Liberton Brae. I used to have to trundle a bike about 3
sizes too big for me up there."
Hens
"I hope Matt reads this and he
will remember the hatch next to Miss O-Dair's (I can't spell it either)
cash desk, leading down to the cellar where there were stone hen coops.
The customers used to bring their
birds to be killed and dressed. This job usually landed on myself
and the other older apprentice butcher Peter Hunter. There was a hook
arrangement on one of the supporting timbers into which you would put the
birds foot so that you could pull the tendons out of the leg."
The Baxter Family
"When I was there Mr Baxter had
died and there was a manager called Mr McDonald. The Baxter family
lived in one of the big houses on the main road just up past the King's
Buildings.
One of the jobs we had to do was
take the son of the family to school on the front of the bike, up Liberton
Brae to the small primary school at the top of Mount Vernon Road."
Wages
"I was much better paid than Matt
we worked six days, 6 am to about 6-20 pm. - it depended on how long it
took to wire brush the butcher's block - with a half day on a Wednesday
all for the handsome sum of thirty shillings (£1-50) for the youngsters.
Oh happy days!"
Bob Henderson, Burdiehouse, Edinburgh: December 4, 2006 |
4.
Matt Rooney
Ayrshire, Scotland |
Matt Rooney replied to Bob Henderson's message
(3 above).
Matt wrote:
|
Baxters Butchers
"Yes, I do remember the
hatch beside Miss O'Dair's desk, and all the sawdust that got a bit bloody
during the day when they chopped the carcasses.
I cannae remember the hen coops.
I think I remember the hens hanging outside the shop but, then again, it
could have been W.G. Adams, the butcher's shop at Dalkeith.
In those days, especially in the
winter season, it was a common sight outside most of the butchers' shops.
You would see rabbits, hares and pheasants, and most other things that
were edible, back then.
I'm pleased that Bob decided to
change jobs like myself. It was really quite bad at times down in
the cellar, as there wasn't much heat because of the meat, but I did learn
how to pare the meat of the bones before it went into the mincer."
Matt Rooney, Ayrshire, Scotland: December 8, 2007
|
5.
Jack Wylie
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada |
After reading Pat Reid's comments about
farms around
Polton, Jack Wylie wrote:
|
Liberton Farms
"Pat's comments really bring back
lots of memories, and I think more so for people
like myself who left Scotland many years ago, to
be exact 1954 the first time.
I've
lived in Australia and South Africa, and have
been in Canada since 1977.
I've been back to Scotland many times for
a holiday.
Before I
left to go to Australia, i was living in
Burdiehouse, which really
isn't that far from Bonnyrigg. In those days, it was
surrounded with farms.
Milk Deliveries
I
delivered milk before
I went to James Clark school in the
morning. The farm was on
Liberton Drive, and the farmer was called
Marshall Milne.
I
remember
Granny Marshall making us a big fried breakfast
before we left to deliver the milk, which was of course straight from the
cows that morning.
The
tips for delivering the milk were great. I
think we thought everybody that lived on Liberton
Drive, in these big houses was wealthy.
Maybe they were.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: reply
posted in EdinPhoto guest book, December 7, 2008 |
6.
Paul Sutherland
Glasgow,
Scotland |
Thank you to Paul Sutherland, Glasgow, who wrote:
|
Liberton Lawn Tennis Club
"When I
Googled Liberton Lawn Tennis Club a few months ago, I
discovered that the final President of the club
was Robin Welsh and that he had bequeathed a
file of papers and photographs to the National Library of Scotland.
The file
includes a
photograph*
taken by J C H Balmain of the Liberton Lawn Tennis
Club Ladies' Team in 1928. They were winners of the Scottish Inter-Club Cup
in 1924/25/26/27/28.
I then found that Robin's father
was the local land-owner and farmer, who built the tennis club on his farm
at Liberton Mains. His farm house was, from memory, probably Georgian and
suffered the ignominy of being bought by Scottish Brewers in the 1950s as
the Inch estate grew up around it. The infamous
Rob Roy pub was plonked right in front of it.
Both the pub
and the farmhouse were demolished around 10 to
15 years ago to build a pocket of high-density housing -
a good thing in the case of the pub and a
pity in the case of the old farmhouse."
Paul Sutherland, Glasgow, Scotland:
November 9, 2011 |
*
Unfortunately, I am not able to add this photo to the EdinPhoto web site
without first seeking permission from the National Library of Scotland to
add it to the site. |
7.
Richard Kent
Leith Edinburgh
|
Richard Kent wrote:
|
Liberton St Agnes
"My great-great-grandmother,
Jessie Rose, was a domestic servant in a house
called 'Liberton, St Agnes',
according to the 1871 census.
The
census sheet that I downloaded from the
Scotland's People website, shows this property
to have been between a house called Powburn (or
maybe it means the actual village of Powburn?) and a property called
'Mount Pleasant'.
I can find no record of
'Liberton St Agnes' in
any Ordnance Survey map of that era, so I wonder
if you think it's possible that this was purely an informal name for the
house by which the family living there knew it?
I'm obviously keen to know where
it may be (or may have been).
The head of the household was one
Andrew Fullarton who was a 'gas meter
manufacturer' and the house had two servants,
so I suspect it was reasonably large and that he was fairly prosperous.
Richard Kent, Leith, Edinburgh: November 22, 2009 |
Reply to Richard?
If you'd like to send a reply to Richard, please
email me, then I'll forward your message to him. Thank you.
Peter Stubbs: November 23, 2009 |
7.
Reply
1.
Richard Kent
Leith Edinburgh
|
Richard Kent found the answer to his own question
(above) and told me:
|
Liberton St Agnes
"I
finally tracked down the answer to my question
(7 above) just last week. It was a villa
about two thirds of the way up Kirk Brae on the left.
It is now no. 73 and is called Caledon
House.
The original house survived until
about 5 years ago but, for reasons which seem inexplicable,
it was rebuilt as a Scandinavian-style chalet!
The house next to it,
'Mount Pleasant' on
that 1871 census is still there. It is now
75 Kirk Brae: it is a listed building with a sizeable garden and a white
fountain."
Richard Kent, Leith, Edinburgh: November 22, 2009 |
Recollections
8.
Alastair Berry
Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
|
Thank you to Alastair Berry, Vancouver Island, British Columbia,
for sending me some of his memories of Liberton in the 1940s.
Alastair wrote:
|
Neighbours
"I lived
at 4 Kirkgate
-
Dr Frost lived
opposite
-
The Dicksons, plumbers I think,
lived at No. 2.
-
Granny Griffin' lived on the
Corner."
|
Wartime
"I
was 9 when the war started and 15 when it finished....
I went to Heriots by
tram, a No. 1
or No. 7 to Nicolson
Square, then, walked past a British Restaurant, 'The
Clarinda', I think."
|
Meadowhead
Farm
"On
my holidays I worked on Meadowhead Farm a
Morton Hall property , farmed by a William Hamilton who was based
at Muirhouse Farm,
Lasswade Road, just beyond
Burdiehouse Burn.
His dad had South House Farm along Captains
Road."
For
Meadowhead Farm, a large field had been carved out of
what is now the Braid Hills golf course.
Although
I was only about 14, I had a .22 pump rifle and would shoot the
pigeons (to eat) that came to feast on
the stooks. I also set snares to
catch rabbits in the whin bushes on the Braid Hills.
I must have been obnoxious!" |
Farm
Workers
"Turnips
and oats seemed to be the main crops.
The entire farm was managed, except when the mill came round, by:
-
Paddy, an Irish man who
lived in the farmhouse.
- 'Old
Matthy'
who lived in a cottage at the turn-off
where a road leads up to Blackford Hill Observatory.
He trudged, on foot,
down to Liberton Dams then up the track by Tower Mains Farm (?) and
across Braid Hills Drive to Meadowhead.
In
my memory today, he
looked at least 100 years old.
He smoked a wee cutty pipe, with a
silver lid, filled with 'Digger's Impy Twist'.
with
help from:
- myself and
Mrs Pendreich(?), the
wife of a couple who lived in the gatehouse
- myself
- three horses. |
The
Mill
"Meadowhead farm had
a built in mill and magnificent one-lung
steam engine, but I never saw it
being fired up. There was a tall brick
chimney stack that set
Meadowhead apart from the
other district farms.
Whenit
was time to thresh some wheat, the cottagers next
to the smithy (Dallands?)
on the corner of Captain's
Road and the Penicuik Road, came out to get their bag
mattresses filled with clean new wheat chaff, which seems
very quaint now!" |
Other Jobs
"In
the event things changed at Meadowhead Farm.
Hamilton got
a brand new single-cylinder
John Deere, and
I got into the University and worked on The Inch,
Burdiehouse and several other building
sites.
Finally,
I
landed a job on the Moat Coal Pit in
Roslin.
Later,
my work was curtailed as I had to intern
in hospitals during the holidays." |
Emigration
"On
graduation, I left Edinburgh, never to return,
except for about 3 visits.
I've
seldom looked back, and am now I am very
comfortably settled on a hillside overlooking the sea, on
Vancouver Island, with Google Earth and
it's street views, to show me what has been going on
in Edinburgh, including the demolition of three high rise
apartment blocks at Gracemount that I
never knew even existed!" |
Alastair Berry, Age 81,
Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada: May
9, 2011
|
Recollections
9.
Robert T Russell
Minnesota, USA |
Thank you to Robert T Russell for posting a message
in the EdinPhoto guestbook.
Robert wrote: |
Liberton High School
Question
"My ancestor,
Thomas Russell (1802-1903)
was born in Liberton. He wrote that
he attended high school and studied Latin.
Can
someone please tell me what high school served Liberton in the early
eighteen hundreds?
I would
much appreciate finding the answer."
Robert T Russell, Minnesota, USA:
Message and email address posted in EdinPhoto guest book: August 7, 2011 |
Reply to Robert?
If you'd like to send a
reply to Robert, please email me, then I'll pass on his email address to
you. Thank you.
Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh: August 8, 2011 |
Recollections
10.
Thomas Cook
Gracemount, Edinburgh |
Thank you to Thomas Cook for replying to Robert T
Russell's question in 9 above.
Thomas wrote: |
Schools at
Liberton
Reply
"Robert asks the
whereabouts of a High School in Liberton in the early 1800’s.
I doubt there was a High
School as South Edinburgh was then mostly agricultural
I am only aware of one
school at Liberton. It was for
younger children and was adjacent to the
Liberton Inn at that time.
As you will be aware, only
families with money enjoyed higher education and that would be in
the city."
Thomas Cook, Gracemount,
Edinburgh: October 9, 2011 |
Recollections
11.
Frank White
Blackley, north Manchester,
England |
Thank you to Frank White for allowing me to
reproduce a photo of Poor St Clares Convent in Edinburgh.
Frank wrote: |
Poor Clares Convent
Sister
Anthony
"Here
is a picture of Poor Clares Convent, Lasswade Rd Liberton,
Edinburgh. On the back of the picture it is blank apart from
an address.
©
My great aunt,
Sister Anthony (Honorah White,
b.1892 Preston) was a nun at the convent from
1955 up to her death in January 1959.
She joined the order at
Bullingham, Hereford,
then moved in 1927, as a young
professed, to open help establish an order in Workington.
By 1945 she was in charge of the externs.
In June
1948 sister Anthony and twelve other sisters moved to Tadcaster,
West Yorkshire, where they founded
another foundation.
In 1955 the community moved,
yet again, to Edinburgh. Sister Anthony
remained in Edinburgh till her passing in
1959."
Question
"Can
anybody give me any more info on Sister Anthon - photos
or anything at all?
I am tracing my family tree
and any info would be helpful
She was from a large family.
Her father was born in 1852 Boston USA. Her
brother, William, died in Glasgow due to
a fall into the dry dock on June 15 1915,
while serving in the royal navy."
Frank White, Blackley, north Manchester,
England: November 16, 2011
|
Recollections
12.
Danny Callaghan
Falkirk, Stirlingshire,
Scotland |
It was good to see a quick reply from Danny
Callaghan to Frank White's question in
Recollections 11 above.
Danny wrote: |
Convent at Gracemount
"There was a post today
from Frank White about the Poor
Clares Convent. There is quite a bit
about the convent already on the
EdinPhoto web site, under heading,
Gracemount. Frank may not have seen this.
I cannot offer any help,
other than what I posted there, but Jim Gilmour
may have more info on Sister Anthony.
I am in the area sometimes,
so if Frank White would like me to, I could
have a look to see if Sister Anthony is on
one of the gravestones and photograph it
if he wishes." |
Nuns and Monks
Names
"It's a funny thing
that Frank White's great aunt was called Sister
Anthony!
I was
told, the other day,
that at Polmont Borstal, just down from me, there was an order of monks
who worked there, looking after the
Catholic boys.
They also had a
strange name system. One was called
Father Mary Joseph. On his
first interview with a new inmate,
he used to look to see if they sniggered etc at
his name. If they did they got a bit of a
roughing up and never sniggered again. Imagine if they tried that now!" |
Danny Callaghan, Falkirk, Stirlingshire,
Scotland: November 27, 2011 |
Recollections
13.
Allan Dodds
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire,
England |
Thank you to Allan Dodds who wrote: |
Dr Guthrie's Approved School
"My grandparents lived at Liberton.
Every Sunday morning at Liberton Kirk the 'bad
boys', as they were then called, from Dr Guthrie's Approved School
- then called a borstal, would attend church dressed in a dowdy
grey.
I was always warned against bad behaviour and
the Guthrie boys were a constant reminder of what lay in store for
miscreants."
Allan Dodds: November 26, 2011 |
Recollections
14.
Alastair Berry
Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
|
Thank you to Alastair Berry, who wrote:
|
Beekeeping
"I was a kid,
aged twelve in 1942, when I took a
College of Agriculture
course on Beekeeping.
The practical side of the course was done at the Experimental Farm
at The Inch, near the doocot.
James Cunningham and George
Pearce(?) from Peebles ran the apiary,
and occasionally. I handled the bees there, as I kept two hives at
home, at 4 Kirkgate, Liberton.
I was not scared of bees, if
a demonstration was being done.
It was through beekeeping
that I met James Dunbar from out
Murrayfield way. He kept bees too,
in his back garden.
He was the mainstay of
Dunbar's
lemonade factory in Albion Road."
Alastair Berry, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada:
January 26, 2012
|
Recollections
15
Joanna Miller
Liberton, Edinburgh
|
Joanna Miller wrote:
|
Question
Kingston
Avenue Building
"I am researching the
Liberton area as a bit of a new hobby. I
am keen to find out more about a building at the end of Kingston
Avenue on Old Dalkeith Road. It is just rubble now but it looks like
it was a farm at some point and I have heard it may have been a
dairy.
Do you have any pictures of
this building or do you have any information about it?"
Joanna Miller, Liberton, Edinburgh: May 3, 2012 |
Reply to
Joanna
Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures or
information to pass on to Joanna, but perhaps somebody else may be
able to help her. If you'd like to contact Joanna,
please
email me, then I'll give you her email address.
Peter Stubbs,
Edinburgh: May 3, 2012 |
Recollections
15
Reply
1
Ken Mortimer |
Ken Mortimer wrote:
|
Reply
Craigend
Dairy
"Joanna
Millers question about the dairy at the foot of Kingston Avenue
prompted some recollections of my time living in the area.
I think the building Joanna
asked about would be Craigend Dairy. Access to it was from Old
Dalkeith Road by a rough cobbled drive opposite Kingston Avenue.
It's now blocked off.
The house was at the top of
a short rise in what could have been an old quarry, with the byre on
the left as you got near the top of the drive.
When I was a child there
were at most a couple of cows there but only for a short while, as
it was already run down. It was owned by Dolly Paris who lived
there on her own. She left the dairy mid- to late-1960s to
move into the house next to what was The Kirklands Guest House.
Very quickly, the dairy
fell into disrepair, and was either vandalized or demolished.
A couple of years ago, I tried to locate the old dairy. Nature
has reclaimed a great deal of the land it used to stand on and what
were at one time familiar landmarks were no longer evident."
Cramond
Island Dairy
"Dolly was friendly with Mr
and Mrs Malcolm who lived in one of the houses opposite the end of
the drive from the dairy. Mrs Malcolm had grown up on the dairy on
Cramond Island. I remember her talking about crossing the causeway
from the island while the tide was still going out splashing through
the water in a horse and cart with the milk churns in the cart to
get them to the market and sold as early as she could."
Craigend
Community
"There was a sense of
community round Craigend, which centred on the shop on the corner of
the Vennel and Under Craigend cottages, run by Walter Brownlie and
his wife Jean.
It stocked lots of grocery
basics. It also served the Little France campsite which stood
where the Infirmary does now The doorstep morning milk
deliveries often went missing We suspected the campers would
forage for some early morning supplies.
By the
Campsite
"There was also an Esso
garage down beside the campsite
which was run by the Shaws.
A bit further on was Bogie Lane next to Pentecox which I think was
on the site of the old Newton Wagonway - a great
car-free and bus-free way to learn to cycle on our old rusty bone
shaker bike. And of course, there was also Mary Queen of Scots' tree
which was in a sorry state even then before it was removed. "
The Wild
Ram
"One other memory from the
time was the wild ram which used used to run wild in the Craigmillar
castle woods and surrounds. My one encounter with it was when it
emerged from the top of the woods not long after I had jumped into
the bottom of the field from Craigmillar Castle Road. Its
unpredictable reputation preceded it and I turned and legged it
clearing the fence to safety at the bottom of the field in one jump."
Joanna Miller, Liberton, Edinburgh: May 3, 2012 |
Recollections
16
Allan Dodds
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire,
England |
Thank you to Allan Dodds for sending me an extract
about Liberton from his book, describing his grandfather and his pet dog,
Dandy. Allan tells me that both of whom lived together
at Liberton in the 1950s.
Grandfather was 80 and Dandy was 12, each of them close to the end of
their lives, when these events took place.
|
Alan wrote:
Shopping
Grandpa and
his dog, 'Dandy'
"As Grandpa grew older he recruited Dandy
to assist with his shopping. Dandy would
be given a bag to carry in his mouth,
containing a purse and a shopping list.
He would then
be pointed down the road to the top of
Liberton Brae where he would scratch at
the door of the first shop. The shopkeeper would open the door,
let Dandy in, and open the bag to read the note and see what
was wanted. With the goods placed in the
bag and the right money taken,
Dandy
would be shown into the shop next door, and so on until all
the shops had been visited. Then
Dandy would carry the shopping back to
Grandpa who would check the purse for change to see that
he hadn’t been swindled by any of the shopkeepers."
Allan Dodds, Nottingham,
Nottinghamshire, England
Extract from Allan's book: 'Laughin' on the Ither Side o'
Ma Face' |
17.
Ronald Wilson |
Thank you to Ronald Wilson for responding to the
comments by Paul Sutherland in Recollections
6 above
Ronald wrote:
|
Liberton Lawn Tennis Club
"It was with interest that I
read Paul Sutherlands posting on Liberton Lawn Tennis Club. The photo
hangs on my wall. The 4th lady from the left was my mother, who won Junior
Wimbledon in 1927."
Ronald Wilson: November 15, 2012 |
18.
Denise Weren
New Zealand |
Denise Warren asked: |
Question
Matthew Alexander
"I'm
starting to look for information about my family.
Does anyone
remember my father, Matthew Alexander. He was a twin with a brother,
Robert.
He was born
and grew up at Ellen's Glen, Edinburgh, then emigrated to New Zealand in
the 1950s.
His father
(George Glen Alexander) and mother (Elizabeth Hutchison) had a market
garden at Ellen's Glen."
Denise Weren, New Zealand: May
25, 2013 |
Reply to Denise
If you'd like to send a reply to Denise,
please email me, then I'll pass on her email address to you.
Thank you.
Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh: May 25,
2013 |
Recollections
19.
Sal Calvin
Egremont, Cumbria, England |
Thank you to Sal Calvin, Egremont, Cumbria, England
who wrote: |
Poor Clares Convent
Sister
Anthony
"I
read with great pleasure, today,
the story in
Recollections 11 above of Frank White's
great aunt who was a Poor Clare at the
convent in Liberton.
My great aunt was also a
Poor Clare, at the convent at Park
End road in Workington, West Cumbria
then she, too, moved to Liberton.
Her name was Rachael
Ellison - Sister Mary Veronica. She
also moved briefly to Tadcaster to help with groundwork at the
convent but suffered a physical injury whilst carrying out garden
clearance. She returned to Liberton
where she died in the early 1960s.
Last year,
I was lucky enough to meet a lovely couple from Liberton who found
Auntie Rae's grave in the enclosed nuns'
cemetery at the site of the old convent. They
also kindly arranged for me to access the cemetery and pay my
respects to Sister Veronica.
I also
have further information on the convent, and
of my aunt's life.
I'd be pleased to share it with Frank if hew were interested in it."
Sal (Sally Ann) Calvin, Egremont,
Cumbria, England: July 2, 2013 |
Poor Clares Convent
I've now forwarded Frank White's email address to
Sal.
I hope Sal will be able to make contact with Frank.
Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh : July 11, 2013 |
Recollections
20.
Ronnie Murphy
West Yorkshire, England |
Thank you to Ronnie Murphy
who wrote: |
Liberton Golf Course
Market
Garden
"Does
anybody remember the market garden in the middle of
the golf course? My
mate, Eddie Henderson's dad owned it.
At
that
time, in the late-1950s,
it had no electricity, I suppose
because of where it was. They had a
tilley lamp.
Ronnie Murphy, West Yorkshire,
England: January 6, 201 |
Recollections
21.
Lorraine Edwards
Burdiehouse, Edinburgh |
Lorraine Edwards wrote: |
Question
Captain's
Road
Bottle and
Glass
"I
wonder if anyone knows the history behind the bottle and glass
carved on the wall on Captain's Road, Edinburgh.
My dad
showed this carving to my sister and me many years ago, but none of
our relatives that I've spoken to knows anything about it."
Lorraine Edwards, Burdiehouse,
Edinburgh: July 16, 2015 |
Reply to
Lorraine?
I was not
aware of the carving that Lorraine mentions above, but I'll look out for
it next time I pass along Captain's Road.
If you know
anything about this carving,
please email me to let me know.
Thank you.
Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh: July 20, 2015 |
Recollections
22.
Shaun Ward
|
Thank you
to Shaun Ward who wrote: |
Reply
Captain's
Road
Bottle and
Glass
"I
noticed the post from Lorraine Edwards about the bottle and glass
Carved into the wall on Captain's Road, in his
Recollection 21 above.
This is just after the
Crossing at the shops. This was a well known childhood mystery to
most Gracemountarians over the years - the work oh a
creative tradesman who built the wall. It is supposed to
replicate a bottle of whisky and a glass.
Here's a recent picture of
it, looking the same as it has for years."
Bottle and
Glass in the Wall
©
Shaun Ward: April 2019
Shaun Ward: 5 April 2019 |
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