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Recollections
Wardie Residents' Club
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1945
Thank you to Ed Thomson, Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland for letting me
see two photographs of Wardie Resident Club members:
Ed's first photo was of the inaugural meeting of the Club.
Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, I don't think I'll be able to add
this photo to the web site.
However, Ed wrote:
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Inaugural Meeting
"The Inaugural meeting
of Wardie Residents Club was held in November 1945 in the Tennis Pavilion
at Boswall Drive.
At that time I was living with my parents
at Fraser Grove and became a Drama Club member.
Change of Meeting Place
Before permanent premises in the Granton
Road Hut, Meetings took place in Wardie School Hall - all
credit to the stalwart Janitor, Mr Bowie, who helped the Club in many
ways."
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Ed Thomson, Glamis Castle, Angus Scotland,
December 12, 2006 |
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Thank you to Archie
Foley, Joppa, Edinburgh, who wrote:
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1945
Founder Members
"My mother and her friends and neighbours from
Granton Place were founder members of the club.
My recollection is that the driving force
behind it was a Mr Lindsay who, I think, was a teacher at David
Kilpatrick's Secondary.
Fencing
"Mr Lindsay and his associates
managed to put together a tremendously varied programme of activities, all
run by volunteers, for adults and juniors.
I took up fencing but found it was nothing
like what Errol Flynn did in the films."
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Archie Foley, Joppa, Edinburgh,
28 December, 2006 |
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1946
Thank you to Ed Thomson for sending me this photo that he took on the
Wardie Residents' Club's Annual Picnic to Edgelaw Reservoir in 1946.
Please click on the small image below to enlarge it.
Ed wrote:
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Annual Picnic
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"This is the Annual Picnic
of the Wardie Residents' Club to Edgelaw Reservoir in 1946.
The Picnic
was always arranged by Member Mr Alexander of the
Water Dept. He is in the centre with spectacles. Willie
Lindsay is second from the left in the back row.
Mr Foley
was correct. Mr Lindsay was principal Art Teacher at David Kilpatrick's.
His daughter was a year below me at Trinity Academy in 1944 and they
stayed in Boswall Avenue.
I have another similar photo taken in 1950,
but this is the best one as it was made up for the Members."
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Ed Thomson, Glamis Castle, Angus Scotland,
December 31, 2006 |
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1949
Thank you to Ed Thomson for sending me this photo taken on the
Wardie Residents' Club's Annual Picnic to Edgelaw Reservoir in 1949.
Please click on the small image below to enlarge it.
Ed wrote:
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Annual Picnic
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"This photo was taken on the Wardie Residents' Club Annual
Picnic at Edgelaw in 1949.
Wardie Residents' Club
President, Willie Lindsay, is at stroke oar"
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Ed Thomson, Glamis Castle, Angus
Scotland, February 14, 2007 |
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Thank you to Phil Wilson, Aberdeen, Scotland who replied,
just a few hours
after I added Ed Thomson's notes, above, to the web site. Phil sent
me his own memories of Wardie Residents' Club, from the 1960s.
Phil wrote:
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1960s
Gilbert & Sullivan
"I read Ed Thomson's comment about the
Club this morning. (I'm finishing work at 2am just now with
13-14 hour shifts).
I was a member of Wardie Residents' Club back
in the early sixties, following my grandparents into it.
We put on shows at that time, of Gilbert And
Sullivan, at various places (including Leith Town Hall) on several nights
each year for a few years, and I remember once polishing up coppers for a
couple of weeks to resemble 'pieces of eight' for 'The Pirates of
Penzance'.
Regrettably, as I was very young at the time,
most of my memories of the club have gone now, but can remember that the
concerts were well attended, and quite popular, and enormous fun to do."
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Phil Wilson, Aberdeen, Scotland
December 21, 2006 |
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From 1973
Wardie Residents' Club
organised activities most days, when I first moved to the area in 1973,
including a Playgroup for young children, run by Mrs Dunlop. I
played Badminton at the Club in the evenings.
- Peter Stubbs: December 20, 2006 |
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