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Broughton Transport
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs |
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'Yes' Campaign Van at Picardy Place Photo 1. The 'Yes' Campaign's Van in the Scottish Independence Referendum at Picardy Place I took this photo of the van from the upper deck of a No. 26 bus, while returning from Portobello to Edinburgh.
© Peter Stubbs email: peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken: September 18, 2014 Bus with 'All Ocver' Advert at Picardy Place Photo 2.
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs Photograph taken March 17, 2011 Fire Engines Attending a Fire in Union Street Photo 3. Fire Engines and Fire Fighters following a fire at Union Street - 1993
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs - peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken 13 Mar 1993
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St Cuthbert's Milk Deliveries
St Cuthbert's Milk Deliveries St Cuthbert's Coop Milk Deliveries - McDonald Road - 1985
© Peter Stubbs. Photograph taken: January 26, 1985
St Cuthbert's Milk Deliveries St Cuthbert's Coop Milk Deliveries - McDonald Road - 1985
© Peter Stubbs. Photograph taken: January 26, 1985
St Cuthbert's Milk Deliveries Bellevue Road, Edinburgh - 1985
© Peter Stubbs. Photograph taken: January 12, 1985
St Cuthbert's Milk Deliveries Bellevue Road, Edinburgh - 1985
© Peter Stubbs. Photograph taken: January 12, 1985
St Cuthbert's Milk Deliveries Bellevue Road, Edinburgh - 1985
© Peter Stubbs. Photograph taken: January 12, 1985
St Cuthbert's Milk Deliveries Bellevue Road, Edinburgh - 1985
© Peter Stubbs. Photograph taken: January 9, 1985
St Cuthbert's Milk Deliveries Bellevue Place, at the junction with Melgund Terrace, Edinburgh - 1985
© Peter Stubbs. Photograph taken: January 26, 1985
St Cuthbert's Milk Deliveries Bellevue Place, at the junction with Melgund Terrace, Edinburgh - 1985
© Peter Stubbs. Photograph taken: January 26, 1985 |
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Milk Horses Thank you to Kate Love, who was in the audience at the Broughton History Society talk last week, for telling me that each of the horses being considered to operate the Co-op's milk rounds in Edinburgh had first to be offered to the Queen. Some of these horses might turn out to be a good match for her existing horses for the Royal Carriages, in which case they would join the Queen's Stables. One of the horses offered to the Queen in this way, but declined, was 'Ginger' who went on to become a familiar sight delivering milk around the streets of Broughton until the late 1980s. Ginger was retired to Leven, Fife, at the age of 34 when the Co-op's horse drawn milk delivery service came to an end 1985. Here is a photo of him taken on the farm at Leven: Ginger
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to John Tai Carriage Restoration I visited the co-op's Carriage Restoration Workshop at Angle Park Terrace a few times in the 1990s, and was told by one of the workers there that their restoration work had included: - their own vehicles: milk floats, Santa's sleigh, a hearse, etc. - vehicles occasionally individuals (but not very many of these). - the Queen's coaches. (The Co-op had a contract with the Royal Family to restore all of their coaches. They had been doing this for many years, but by the 1990s, they had almost run out of Royal coaches in need of restoration.)
© Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photograph taken: June 23, 1992 With no more milk floats in operation in Edinburgh since 1985 little chance of many more coaches to restore for Buckingham Palace, there was concern about the future of Scotmid's carriage restoration workshops. In fact the workshop closed a couple of years after my last visit there in the 1990s. Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh: February 18, 2014 |
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Buses Most recently LRT then Lothian Buses
Central Depôt Exhibition Hall, Annandale Street, Edinburgh Designed to hold large industrial exhibitions in 1922 and converted in to a bus garage in 1926.
© Photo from the Edinburgh Corporation Transport Collection reproduced with acknowledgement to Lothian Buses and taken from a print from the original glass plate made by John Dickson, Royston, Edinburgh Central Bus Depôt, Annandale Street The same building as above, but with the entrances replaced by large doors to accommodate buses
© Photo from the Edinburgh Corporation Transport Collection reproduced with acknowledgement to Lothian Buses and taken from a print from the original glass plate made by John Dickson, Royston, Edinburgh, February 27, 2012 3. Buses in Annandale Street Depôt - Around 1930s?
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc Buses in Annandale Street Depôt - Around 1940s?
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc Buses in Annandale Street Depôt - Around 1940s? - zoom-into Photo 4
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Do you recognise what models these cars are? Most appear to be small to medium-size, but there is also a Rolls Royce in the background on the left.
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc Do you recognise what models these cars are? These appear to be some of the larger and more impressive cars in the fleet
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc Are these 'Bullnose Morris' cars - with a chauffeur at each end of the line? Would this photo have been taken perhaps beside Annandale Street Depot or Shrubhill Works?
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc An impressive array of lorries belonging to Edinburgh City Council. Who in the man in the hat? Would this photo have been taken perhaps beside Annandale Street Depot or Shrubhill Works?
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc Washing the bus Here is
an early Edinburgh Corporation Leyland single-deck bus,
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc Lothian Buses Central Depot, Annandale Street - March 29, 2010 This photo was taken during 'Doors Open Day', 2010, showing the newly painted Lothian Buses in their latest liveries. The roof of Annandale Street depot looks similar to that in Photo 9 above, taken about 80.
© Copyright: Donald Stirling, Polmont, Falkirk, Scotland Photo taken March 20, 2010 Edinburgh Cable Car No 226 undergoing a thorough restoration at Annandale Street Depôt
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs Photograph taken 10 September 2002 |
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Trams & Buses Most recently LRT then Lothian Buses Shrubhill Works
Shrubhill Works Shrubhill Works - Workshop
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Shrubhill Works Shrubhill Works - Workshop
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Shrubhill Works Heavy equipment to power the cables beneath the street that pulled the cable cars around the city
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Shrubhill Works Wheels for the heavy continuous cables beneath the streets for the cable cars. One of the engines that powered these cables was at Shrubhill Works.
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Shrubhill Works Lifting one of the posts, presumably for the tram wires, into position at Albert Place
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Shrubhill Works Shrubhill Works - The Repair Shop with plank scaffolding suspended from the roof.
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Shrubhill Works Shrubhill Works - The Repair Shop with plank scaffolding suspended from the roof.
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Shrubhill Works Workers' Beds at Shrubhill Works, during the General Strike - 1920
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Shrubhill Works Workers and their beds (and a tram!) at Shrubhill Works, during the General Strike - 1920
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Shrubhill Works Preserved Tram No.35 in the small museum at Annandale Street
This tram later travelled to Blackpool where it
operated along the Promenade.
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Adrian H Dodsley, Oakerthorpe, Derbyshire, who supplied this photo to me.
Shrubhill Works Buses, Seats and Destination Blinds - 1996 © Copyright: Peter Stubbs Photograph taken July 17, 1996
Shrubhill Works Vehicles and Tools - 1992 © Copyright: Peter Stubbs Photograph taken 16 December 1992
Shrubhill Works © Copyright: Peter Stubbs Photograph taken August 18, 1994
Shrubhill Works Bus and Parts - 1994 © Copyright: Peter Stubbs Photograph taken July 25, 1994
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Trams
Tram The First Cable Car at Pilrig - 1898
For the next 22 years, passengers would have
to change tram at Pilrig as there was no through operation between Leith and
Edinburgh.
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Tram The First Through Electric Tram at Pilrig - 1922 Welcomed by a large crowd.
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Tram The First Through Electric Tram at Pilrig - 1922 Welcomed by a large crowd. A good day for anybody with an interest in trams ... or hats!
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Tram Bonnington Toll - Probably around early-1950s? Bonnington Toll was where Broughton Road, Newhaven Road, Bonnington Road and Pilrig Street met at the northern corner of Rosebank Cemetery. The railway crossed diagonally over the road junction here.
© the Late JL Stevenson, with acknowledgement to his son, Hamish Stevenson for allowing me to reproduce this photo and to Kenneth Williamson for providing me with a copy of the photo.
Tram A Tram negotiates the corner from St Andrew Square to York Place
After leaving St Andrew Square, this enters York Place on
its journey to Granton.
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Tram Day Time Tram Testing at York Place The last of the old trams ran in November 1956. Here, almost 60 years later, is one of Edinburgh's new trams being tested in February 2014, before going into service in May 2014. This view from the top floor o Harvey Nicol's shows a tram turning from York Place into North St Andrew Street. This tram is negotiating the same corner as the tram in Photo 2 above, but is heading towards St Andrew Square. It was photographed from the top floor of Harvey Nicol.
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken February 27, 2014
Tram Day Time Tram Testing at York Place IN early May 2014, the date that the trams were to 'go live' was announced. Here it is on the side of a tram, waiting at the terminus in York Place.
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken May 8, 2014
Tram Night Time Tram Testing at York Place This photo was taken at 1.40 am on a bitterly cold night in December 2013. This was the first time that trams had travelled as far as the end of the line at York Place
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken December 5, 2013
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