Recollections

Please :          1. select from  Subject Index below
OR: 2. continue to scroll down this page
OR: 3. email  me if you have any recollections to add to this section.

Subject Index

Please keep scrolling down this page to see the full index

Recollections

0 . Edinburgh - Places, Words, Expressions
Poems, Cafes, etc .

1. Edinburgh - Central

2 . Edinburgh - East

3. Edinburgh - North

4. Edinburgh - West

5. Edinburgh - South

6. Edinburgh - by the Water of Leith

7. Leith

8. Newhaven

9. Scotland

10. Edinburgh Entertainment + Hobbies

11. Edinburgh School s + University

12. Edinburgh Transport

13. Edinburgh at War

14. Edinburgh at Work

15 . Edinburgh Housing

1 6 . Edinburgh Street Furniture

17. Film Clips and Films

18. Further Recollections

0 .

Edinburgh

Names + Speech

©

NOTE: Some of the pages below are very long, so they may be slow to load.

- Edinburgh - Places and People

- Edinburgh - Words and Dialect

- Edinburgh - Expressions

- Edinburgh - Sweets, Drinks, Snacks, Cakes

- Other Comments Received

- Questions

- Penicuik - Words and Dialect

- Edinburgh Poems -  Edinburgh Photographic Society

- Edinburgh Poems -  Granton

- Edinburgh Poem -    Scottish Parliament Building

Some of these poems include local words and dialect.

- Edinburgh Cafés

1.

Edinburgh - Central

Old Town

including Dumbiedykes, St Leonard's, South Side and Fountainbridge

©

- Bannerman's Bar

- Barron's Rag Merchants

- Blackfriars Street

- Bristo

- Brown Street

- Brown's Place

- Buccleuch Street

- Canongate

- Carnegie Street

- Castlehill

- Castlehill Primary School

- Central Garage Annandale Street

- Chambers Street

- Chessels Court

- Chessels Court south + west sides

- Cockburn Street

- Cowgate

- Cowgate area

- Croft-an-Righ

- Crosscauseway

- Dalrymple Place

- Deaconess Hospital

- Drummond Street

- Dumbiedykes -  after demolition

- Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street Aitchison, Greengrocer

- Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street baker's shop

- Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street coal lorry

- Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street confectioner

- Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street demolition

- Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street Thomas Cullen's shop

- Dumbiedykes - Houses and Streets

- Dumbiedykes - Factories and Shops 1950s

- Dumbiedykes - People and Play 1940 s -1960s

- Dumbiedykes - People and Play 1940 s -1960 s: page 2

- Dumbiedykes - St Margaret's Church

- Dumbiedykes - Searching for People

- Dumbiedykes - Streets  A-G

- Dumbiedykes - Streets  H-R

- Dumbiedykes - Streets  S-Z

- Dumbiedykes - Tenement Collapses

- Dumbiedykes - 'The Embers'

- Dumbiedykes - Tusi's ice cream shop

- East Preston Street

- Edinburgh Castle

- Fleshmarket Close

- Fountainbridge Early recollections

- Fountainbridge from 1940s

- The Grapes

- The Grassmarket

- Haymarket

- Heriot Mount

- Heriot Mount Street Party

- High School Yards

- High Street

- Holyrood Palace

- Holyrood P ark

- Holyrood Road

- Keir Street

- Heriot Place

- Infirmary Street Baths

- James Clark School

- James Wood hairdresser

- Jeannie Deans' Cottage

- Jeannie Veitch's sweetie shop

- Keir Street

- Lawnmarket

- Lower Viewcraig Row

- Milne's Court

- Moubray House

- Meadows

- Nicolson Street

- Old Town Closes

- Old Town Names

- One o'Clock Gun

- Pleasance back greens

- Pleasance

- Potterrow

- Prince Albert Buildings

- Ramsay Lane

- Rutherford's Lounge Bar

- Royal Mile John Knox House + Well

- Royal Mile Old Town Weaving Company

- St Ann's School

- St John's Hill

- St Leonard's 1950s

- St Leonard's Parish Church

- St Mary's Street

- St Patrick's Church

- St Patrick Square

- Salisbury Street

- Searching for Poeple

- Simon Square Wash House

- Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion

- South Clerk Street

- South Side

- Stewart's Bar

- Tollcross

- Tusi's sweetie shop

- Upper Viewcraig Row

- Upper Viewcraig Low Road

- Vennel

- Victoria Street

- White Horse Close

New Town

- Albany Street

- Assembly Room Concerts

- Atholl Crescent

- Bars

- Binns Store

- Blenheim Place

- Brunswick

- Caledonian Station

- Calton Hill

- Calton Hill the street

- Calton Road

- Cumberland Street

- East London Street

- Edinburgh 1950s

- Fettes Row

- Floral Clock

- Gladstone Monument

- George Street

- Great King Street

- Greenside

- Hillside

- Jamaica Street

- Jerome's Studio

- Leith Street

- Lothian Road

- Lothian Road Snack Bar

- McDonald Road

- Milne's Bar

- The Mound

- Nelson Street

- Picardy Place

- Pitt Street

- Princes Street

- Princes Street Gardens

- Princes Street Station

- Rose Street

- Ross Bandstand

- St Andrew Square 'The American Hut''

- St James Square

- St James' United Free Church

- St Mary's Cathedral

- Searching for Poeple

- Sinclair Fountain

- Thistle Street

- Union Place

- Waverley Market

- Waverley Market Epstein Exhibition

- Waverley Station

- West End

- West End Points Duty

Shops , Cafés, Restaurants

- The Albert Bazaar

- Benny's Shoe Shop

- Baird's Shoe Shop

- Binns then Frasers West End of Princes Street

- Cafés and Restaurants

- Goldbergs + surrounding buildings

- Goldbergs Department Store

- Hairdresser Central Edinburgh

- Highland House Lawnmarket

- Jenners Store

- Milk Bars

- Parker's Store

- Patrick Thomson's and shops nearby

- Record Shops

- Roast Chicken Shops

- Shops Central Edinburgh

- Waverley Tailoring Co

- West Bow

- West End Cafés and Restaurants

- Woolworths

Other Memories
and questions

- Central Edinburgh

- Street Furniture

2.

Edinburgh  -  East

©

- Abbeyhill

- Bingham

- Cairntows Craigmillar

- Cambusnethan Street

- Coillesdene House Joppa

- Craigentinny 1940s

- Craigmillar and Niddrie 1940s-50s

- Craigmillar and Niddrie 1960s-70s

- Craigmillar and Niddrie 1970s onwards

- Craigmillar Castle

- Craigmillar Castle Estate

- Craigmillar - The Venchie

- Duddingston

- Duddingston Camp 1940s-50s

- East Thomas Street 19 3 0s-60s

- East Thomas Street neighbours

- East William Street

- Easter Road

- Fisherrow Harbour

- Fort Kinnaird

- Greendykes

- The Inch

- Jeffrey Street

- Jewel Cottages

- Joppa

- Joppa tram tracks

- Lochend and Easter Road

- Magdalene

- Meadowbank

- Newcraighall

- Niddrie 1930s to1950s

- Niddrie 1950s+ 1960s

- Niddrie Mill

- Niddrie Mill Sunday School

- Peffermill

- Piershill

- Pilrig 1950s

- Portobello early 1900s

- Portobello 19 2 0s to 19 50s

- Portobello from 1950s

- Portobello Bathing Pool

- Portobello High Street

- Portobello Hotels early 1900s

- Restalrig

- Seafield

- Searching for People East Edinburgh

- South Elgin Street

- The Venchie Craigmillar

- The Wisp

- Whitehouse Public House

3 .

Edinburgh  -  North

Boswall, Granton, Royston, Trinity, Wardie

©

- Boswall + Granton + Trinity + Wardie - 1940s

- Boswall + Granton + Trinity + Wardie - 1950s -7 0s

- Boswall + Granton + Trinity + Wardie - Shops

- Challenger Lodge

- Comely Bank

- Comely Bank Milk Deliveries

- Comely Bank Moir & Baxter's Garage

- Craighall

- Crewe Toll

- Dean Street

- Embassy Cinema

- Goldenacre

- Granton 1930 s -50s

- Granton 1950s

- Granton 1950s - 70s

- Granton 1970s and 2000s

- Granton, Boswall, Royston since 1940s

- Granton Castle

- Granton Harbour then to Sea 1940s

- Granton Harbour T L Devlin, trawler owners

- Granton Harbour Brown, Blacksmith, WW1

- Granton Harbour esparto grass 1940s/50s

- Granton Harbour around 1960

- Granton Harbour 1950s to 1970s

- Granton House  to  Fire 1954

- Granton - Lower Granton Road

- Granton Ice Works 1950s-1970s

- Granton Railway 1960s to 1980s

- Hermitage Place Stockbridge

- Inverleith

- Inverleith Pond

- Inverleith Terrace Edzell Lodge

- Leith Walk

- Leith Walk Café

- Lindsay Road and North Fort Street

- Lochinvar Camp 1940s - 50s

- Lomond Park

- Muirhouse

- Muirhouse Towers

- Old Chain Pier

- Pennywell 1940s

- Pilton and Crewe Toll

- Pilton 1940 bomb

- Royal Botanic Garden question

- Royston from 1930s

- Royston School

- Scotland Street coal yard

- Sounds from the Firth of Forth

- Starbank Inn 1970s

- Trinity Cottage

- Wardie Residents' Club from 1940s

- Wardie School 1930s

- Wardie School 1940s

- Wardie School 1950s

- Wardie School and Playgroup 1960s

- Wardie School 1970s

- Wardie School 1980s

- Warriston Cemetery

- West Granton:  Gypsy Brae 1950s

- West Granton:  Shops 1950s

- Wester Drylaw

- Wester Hailes

4.

Edinburgh  -  West

- Baird Drive

- Barnton

- Broomhouse

- Clermiston

- Clerwood

- Comiston

- Corstorphine and Clermiston

- Craigleith

- Cramond

- Cramond Island 1970s

- Dalry

- Davidson's Mains

- Davidson's Mains Station

- Edinburgh Airport

- Edinburgh Zoo

- Gogarburn Hospital

- Glenburn Hotel

- Gorgie

- Gorgie mills

- Gorgie and Chesser

- Gorgie Station

- Hailes Quarry

- Harrison Road

- Hutchison and Chesser

- Lauriston Castle

- Merchiston

- Murrayfield

- Newbridge

- Ratho

- Roseburn

- Sighthill

- Slateford Road

- South Queensferry and Port Edgar

- Strathearn Place

- Straiton

- Union Canal

- Western General Hospital

- Whitson

See also E dinburgh - By the Water of Leith below.

5 .

Edinburgh  -  South

- Bonaly

- Bridgend

- Bristo Street

- Bruntsfield

- Bruntsfield shinty

- Burdiehouse

- Canaan House Morningside

- Canaan Lodge Morningside

- City Hospital

- Comiston

- Deanbank House

- East Preston Street

- Echo Bank Newington

- Fairmilehead

- Gilmerton

- Gilmerton Westland Cottages

- Gladstone Terrace

- Gracemount

- Happy Valley

- Liberton

- Liberton Brae

- Little France

- Marchmont

- Moredun

- Mount Alvernia

- Morningside

- Newington

- Oxgangs

- Peffermill and Prestonfield

- Polwarth

- Poor Clare's Convent

- Priestfield

- Princes Margaret Rose Hospital

- St Leonard's

- St Margaret's Convent

- Sciennes

- Southside

- Viewforth

See also E dinburgh - By the Water of Leith below.

6.

Edinburgh  -  By the Water of Leith

Canonmills, Warriston and Beaverbank to Colinton and Juniper Green

©

- At Home

- Baberton House

- Balgreen

- Beaverbank industries - 1940s

- Bellevue

- Bellevue - milk deliveries

- Bonnington

- Bonnington - filming

- Broughton

- Broughton - buses

- Broughton - Growing up

- Broughton - streets & houses

- Canonmills

- Colinton

- Craiglockhart

- Craiglockhart Military Hospital

- Currie

- Danube Street Stockbridge

- Gorgie Road

- Harlaw Reservoir

- Heriot Hill Terrace

- Juniper Green

- Longstone

- Merchiston

- Powderhall

- Saughton

- Slateford

- Stenhouse

- Stockbridge

- Tanfield

- Warriston

- Warriston Cemetery The Red Lady

7.

Leith

including Pilrig - half way
between Edinburgh and Leith

©

- Albion Road

- Anderson Place

- Assembly Rooms

- Ballantyne Road

- Bonnington Bond

- Christening Pieces

- Corunna Place

- Capitol Picture House

- Central Bar

- Cooperage

- Demarco's Ice Cream

- Drinking in Leith

- D K school 1950s

- Dr Bell's school 1940s

- Eldorado Dance Hall

- Ferrier Street

- First trip to sea

- Fort

- Gaiety and other entertainment

- Gordon Street

- Growing up in Leith

- Hamilton Street

- Henderson Street

- Kirkgate

- Leith Cafés

- Leith Digs and Flats

- Leith Docks

- Leith Fort

- Leith Houses

- Leith Milk Deliveries

- Leith World War II

- Leith Nautical College

- Leith Pageant 1964

- Leith Place Names

- Leith Poem

- Leith Police

- Leith Pubs many long since gone

- Leith Questions

- Leith Searching for People

- Leith Snooker Halls

- Leith Shipping

- Leith Shops

- Leith Street Names

- Leith Swimming

- Leith Tattoo Parlour

- Leith Walk

- Leith Wireless

- Leith Wrestling

- Leith Wild Cat

- Lindsay Road

- Links Primary School

- Madeira Street

- Manderston Street

- North Fort Street

- Ocean Mist

- Parliament Street

- Pilrig 1950s-60s

- Pitt Street Leith

- Primrose Street

- Sailing to Leith

- Sailing to Leith on MV Cairndhu

- Scandinavian Seamen's Church

- Sheriff Brae

- The Shore

- Sun Ray Treatment

- Union Street 1940s

- Whaling from Leith ancestors

- Wild Cat

- Winter of 1947

- Yardheads closes

- Yardheads Brewery

8.

Newhaven

- Newhaven

- Newhaven  -  Annfield

- Newhaven  -  Coach Outing

- Newhaven  - Fishwives

- Newhaven  -  Going Fishing

- Newhaven  -  Old Chain Pier

- Newhaven  -  Old Chain Pier and Harbour 1930s

- Newhaven  -  Pageant 1953

- Newhaven  -  Peacock Inn

- Newhaven  -  Police Box and Market Buffet

- Newhaven  - Starbank Park

9 .

Scotland

Borders

- Peebles

Caithness

- Altnabreac Station: Caithness

Central

- Grangemouth

East Lothian

- Farming 1870s-90s

- Musselburgh + Inveresk

- Musselburgh Races

- Musselburgh to Edinburgh Travel

- North Berwick model yacht

Fife

- Kinghorn

- North Queensferry

Glasgow

- Glasgow Co-op Picnics

Midlothian - Bilston

- Loanhead

- Middleton Camp

- Milton Bridge

- Pentland Hills

- Polton Farm

- Rosewell

- Whitehill and Bonnyrigg

West Lothian

- Kirkliston

- Kirknewton

10.

Edinburgh Entertainment + Hobbies

- The Astoria Corstorphine cinema

- Athletics

- Ballroom Dancing Classes

- Beehive Inn Restaurant

- Beverley / Blue Halls Cinema

- Boxing

- Cafés and Restaurants

- Capitol Picture House Leith

- Cinemas and Theatres

- Circus

- Clubs and Discos Recollections 1-100

- Clubs and Discos Recollections 101-200

- Clubs and Discos Recollections 201 onwards

- Collecting Football Cards

- Cycling

- Dance Bands

- Dance Halls

- Daniel Stewart's College

- Early Circuses and Entertainers

- The Ember s Dumbiedykes

- Empire Theatre

- Edinburgh Aero Club

- Football

- Free Activities

- Golf

- Gonk Club Tollcross

- Ice Skating

- James Brown Melodion Player

- Johnny and the Falcons Dumbiedykes

- The Jokers

- King's Theatre

- Ladies' Fashions

- Lascala Cinema

- Men's Fashions

- Murrayfield Ice Rink - Music

- Murrayfield Ice Rink - Skating

- Musselburgh Races

- New Palais - later McGoo's

- New Victoria Cinema

- Observatory

- Palais de Dan s e

- Pantomimes and Theatres

- Palladium East Fountainbridge

- Picnics

- Politics

- Popular Music

- Portobello Marine Gardens

- Pubs

- Radio Programmes

- Skating

- Sparta Amateur Boxing Club

- Street Entertainment

- Students' Rag Week

- Swimming Baths

- Television

- Theatre Royal

- Youth Hostelling

11.

Edinburgh Schools and Colleges

©

Schools

- Edinburgh Schools

- Abbeyhill School

- Ainslie Park School

- All Saints School

- Balgreen School Class 1936-37

- Basil Paterson Tutorial College

- Bellevue School 1946-50

- Blackhall Primary School

- Bonnington Primary School

- Boroughmuir School

- Broughton High School

- Brunstane Primary School

- Bruntsfield Primary School

- Burdiehouse School

- Canonmills Primary School

- Cargilfield School

- Castle H ill Primary School

- Corstorphine School Class 1938

- Couper Street School, Leith

- Craigentinny Primary School

- Craiglockhart Primary School

- Craigmillar Primary School

- Craigmuir Primary School

- Dalry Primary School

- Daniel Stewart's College

- Darroch School

- David Kilpatrick School , Leith

- Dean Orphanage

- Dean Village School

- Donaldson's College

- Dr Bell's School around 1920

- Dr Bell's school from 1940s

- Dr Guthrie's School for boys, Gilmerton

- Drumbrae Primary School

- Drylaw Primary School

- Duddingston Primary School

- Edinburgh Academy

- Edinburgh Castle School

- Flora Stevenson's School

- Fox Covert School

- George Heriots

- George Watson's Ladies' College

- George Watson's College

- Granton School 1940s + 1950

- Granton School 1962

- Hailesland School

- Heriot's

- Hermitage Park Primary School Centenary 2010

- Holy Cross Academy

- Hyvot's Bank Primary School

- James Clark School 1961 photo

- James Clark School

- James Clark School Reunion

- James Gillespie's School

- John Watson School

- Leith Academy 1952, class 3C2

- Leith Academy

- Leith Links School

- Leith Walk Primary School 1957

- Links Primary School

- Lismore Primary School

- Lochend Primary School

- London Street Primary School

- Lorne Street School

- Mary Erskine School

- Melville College

- Milton House Primary School

- Moray House

- Morningside: 'The Cuddy School'

- Mrs Guthrie's 'Toy' School, Stockbridge

- Murrayburn School

- Napier College Now Napier University

- Niddrie Marischal School

- Normal Practising School

- North Fort Street Primary School

- North Merchiston streets around the Primary School

- North Merchiston School

- North Merchiston School photo, around 194 4

- Norton Park Secondary School

- Old Pentland School

- Orwell Primary School

- Parsons Green

- Parsons Green School 1948-49

- Peffermill Tin School

- Pennywell Primary School

- Pentland High School

- Pilton Primary School

- Police Road Safety Unit Visits to Primary Schools

- Portobello High School

- Preston Street School around 1950-51

- Preston Street School around 1952

- Preston Street School

- Prestonfield Primary School

- Queen Margaret's PNEU School

- Roseburn Primary School

- Royal High School

- Royal Mile Primary School

- Royston Primary School

- Royston Primary School class photo, 1946

- St Ann's & St Patrick's Schools

- St Ann's School and playground

- St Anthony's School

- St Anthony's School class photo

- St Bernard's Primary School

- St David's School

- St Francis' School

- St Hilda's School

- St Ignatius School

- St John's School Portobello, 1920s-50s

- St John's School Portobello, from 1950s

- St Margaret's Convent

- St Mary's Primary School York Lane

- St Mary's Primary School Henderson Street

- St Ninian's Primary School

- St Pat rick' s School

- St Saviour's Child Garden

- St Serf's School

- St Thomas of Aquin's School

- Sciennes Primary School

- South Bridge School

- South Morningside School

- Southhouse School

- Stenhouse School

- Stockbridge Primary School

- Tollcross Primary School

- Tollcross Primary School early 1950s

- Tollcross Primary School - visit 1985

- Towerbank School

- Trinity Academy from 1 940s

- Trinity Academy to Empire Exhibition - 1938

- Tynecastle Secondary School

- Usher Hall Secondary Schools Concert:  1971

- Victoria Primary School

- Wardie School - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s

- Watson's

- Wester Hailes Education Centre

More Class Photos

- Schools

School Camps

- Middleton Residential School Cam p near Borthwick Castle

- Broomlea School Camp near West Linton

Edinburgh University

- Rectorial Battle Day

- Student Life

- Student's Rag Week

12.

Transport

Buses and Coaches

- Bus, Tram & Train Journeys

- Bus Route 19

- Bus Tours

- Buses and Trams Toilet Blocks

- Cable Cars

- Central Garage Annandale Street

- Coach Tours from Edinburgh

- Cycling

- Edinburgh Airport

- Edinburgh Corporation Transport Fitzpayne

- Edinburgh Corporation Transport Charlie Carroll

- Gas-Powered Buses

- George Hunter's coaches: Loanhead

- German Open-top Cars Hitler or Goring

- Horse-drawn trams

- Leith Bus Depot Outings + Parties

- Lothian Buses bus tracker system

- Newbattle School Bus Accident near Newtongrange

- Railway to Texaco Oil Plant

- SMT buses

- Steam Buses

- Steam-powered Lorries

- Trains

- Trams

- William Stewart's coaches Dalkeith

- School Buses

Cars, Vans, Lorries

- Belgrave Motors

- Milk Floats and Bakers' Vans

- Pentland Garage

- Wood's Garage

Ferries

- Granton-Burntisland Ferry

- Queensferry Ferry

Railways

- Caledonian Station

- Granton Railway  1960s-1980s

- Granton Road Station

- The Innocent Railway

- Last Steam Trains Edinburgh area

- Line to Leith North Station

- Leith Stations

- Musselburgh to Edinburgh

- Princes Street Station

- St Margaret's Railway Depot

Ships

- Sailing to Leith

- Concrete Ships built at Granton

Steam Rollers

in and around Edinburgh

- Midlothian

Trams

- Edinburgh's Last Tram

- Luggage on Trams

- North Bridge

- Trams during WW2

- Tramcar Adventures

Growing up with Transport

- Cars, Boats and Planes

13.

Edinburgh at War

and the years following the War

- Air Raids , Shelters and Bombs

- Aircraft

- Army Service

- ATC

- ATS question

- Albert Docks, Leith crates for US army trucks

- Botanic Garden

- British Ropes

- Christmas and Hogmanay

- Colinton

- Combined Cadet Force (CCF)

- Dr Bell's school 1940s

- Edinburgh at War These are the first recollections that I received

- Edinburgh Civil Defence Messenger Service 1940s

- Evacuation

- Evacuation -  to near Peebles

- Food

- Guide to Edinburgh Air Raid Shelters

- Haymarket

- Hutments constructed 1920s

- Lochend

- Leith

- Marchmont Bomb

- Newhaven

- Pentland Hills

- Pilton Bomb 1940

- Play Edinburgh During the War Years

- Police Boxes

- Portobello

- Post-war years from 1945

- Prefab Housing constructed 1940s/ ealy-1950s

- Princes Street Gardens

- Prisoners of War Dalmahoy Camp

- Prisoners of War -  farm workers

- Rations

- Royal Mail Pillar Boxes

- Royston -  around 1940

- School

- Shopping - during and after WW2

- Squadrons

- Toys

- Trinity Academy - 1940s

- Vaccinations

- The War Effort

- Wartime Housing

- World War II - documents

14.

Edinburgh at Work

©

- Acme Farms Dairy

- W G Adams: Butcher, Dalkeith

- Alexander's Ford Dealership

- Annandale Motors

- Asa Wass: rag and bone ma n + scrap yard

- Auto Sales

- Baker: Lambert's, Kerr's, Mack's, Crawford's, University

- Baird the Bootmaker

- Baird's Shoe Shop

- Barron's: rag merchants

- Bank of Scotland

- Baxters the Butchers

- Beaverbank industries -  1940s

- Beaverbank Motors

- Ben Line

- Bertram's Engineers

- Beveridge grocer at Gilmerton - 1950s-60s

- D Brotchie & Sons Coal Merchants

- Broughton Industries

- Brown Brothers

- Bruce Peebles Engineering Works

- Buttercup Dairy Company

- Caledonian Brewery

- Campbell Harper photographers

- Central Edinburgh Shops

- Central Garage Annandale Street

- E Chalmers & Co

- Charles Alexander & Partners

- Chimney Sweeps

- City Hospital

- JP Cochrane

- Colin McAndrew & Partners builders

- Coltart net works at Granton

- Co-op Henderson Street, Leith

- Cowan's Yard

- Cox's Glue Works Gorgie

- Crawford's Biscuits Leith

- Decorating

- Devlin trawler owners

- Drambuie

- Dunbar & Co soft drinks

- Duncan's Chocolates

- Edinburgh & Dumfriesshire Dairy Co

- East Preston Street chimney sweeps

- Edinburgh Direct Aid

- Edinburgh University

- Edinburgh Corporation Transport Buses and City Cars

- Electrician

- Ethicon

- Farm workers and Wimpey workers

- Fell & Mathieson plumbers

- Ferranti

- Forth Bridge

- Frosts' Furnishing Shop

- Furness Withy Leith Docks

- George Brown & Sons boatyard

- George Gibson: Leith

- The Grove Bar

- John Glindinning & Sons - Plumbers

- George Greenhill & Son painters

- George Hunter's coaches: Loanhead

- Gibson's Leith :  Cycles and Aeroplanes

- Granton Harbour -  Brown, Blacksmith, WW1

- Granton Harbour -  T L Devlin, trawler owners

- Granton Harbour -  Testimonial, 1878

- Granton Ice Works

- Hawthorn's Shipbuilders -  Leith

- Haymarket Railway Depot

- Henry Robb's Ship Yards Leith

- Hislop & Day

- Holyrood Breweries

- House of Clydesdale

- Hutchison's Garage

- Ice Cream Van

- Ingin Johnny

- Jaeger -  Princes Street shop

- James Bertram & Sons -  Engineers

- James Bowen & Sons Garage

- James Dunbar Lemonade

- Jenners -  Princes Street shop

- John Clephane & Sons

- John Gibson & Son Garage

- John H Lunn Removals

- W & AK Johnson

- A Kay -  trawler owner

- Kings of Glasgow

- Leckie Coal Deliveries

- Leith Bus Depot Outings + Parties

- Leith Co-op Milk Deliveries

- Leith Docks early 1900s

- Leith Nautical College

- Leith Police

- Liberton Filtration Plant

- Lonsdale & Dutch Tinsmith

- Lorimer & Clark's Brewery

- Lothian Crisp Factory

- Lothian Region Transport Signwriting

- Manclark & Son tailors

- Matheson, McLaren & Co tea and coffee

- Mat Rooney 26 jobs

- McKenzie chimney sweep

- McVities Guest Bakery

- Meadows Railway Yard

- Merchiston Motors

- Miller & Co Foundry

- Miler's Wireless

- Moir & Baxter's garage

- Morrison & Gibb

- Murray field Dairy

- Murray's Cooperage

- National Bank of Scotland

- Niddrie Mill Garage

- North British Distillery

- North British Rubber Works

- Onion Johnny

- Pentland Garage

- Peter Victory taxis

- Photographer's Shop

- Polar Ices

- Police

- Police on Points Duty

- Projectionists

- Railways  -  Brunswick Road Goods Yard

- Ramage & Ferguson

- Road Works and Steam Rollers

- Robert Cresser

- Robert Croan

- Robertson drayage business

- Royal Blind Asylum

- Saddler's Transport

- St Cuthbert's Co-op Bakery

- St Cuthbert's Co-op Milk Deliveries

- St Cuthbert's Co-op Works Dept.

- St Margaret's Railway Depot

- Sax Shaw Artist

- Scottish Union / Norwich Union Insurance Co

- Shades Potato Merchants

- Shell UK Oil

- SMT buses

- SMT Sales & Service

- Sonny Swinton

- Steel Coulson's Brewery

- Stewart Brothers Wool Merchants

- Stewart's Whisky Bonds St Leonard's + Prestonfield

- Street Lighting

- Street Sweeping scaffies

- T&H Smith

- The Store (The Co-op including milk deliveries)

- Thomas Nelson & Sons

- Thomas 'Wingy' Robertson's Yard Leith

- Thomson & Porteous tobacco, snuff, cigarettes, cigars

- United Wire Works

- VAT69 Whisky workers at Leith

- Viewforth Coachworks

- Waddel's Pork Butcher

- Weston's Biscuits

- Willie Heath Motor Mechanic

- VAT 69 whisky bond, Leith

- whisky bond

- Whytock & Reid

- Wightman Family Egg Merchants

- William Stewart's coaches Dalkeith

- William Younger Brewery Holyrood

- Wood Brothers, fish merchants Newhaven

- Young Brothers bakery

- Visits to Edinburgh Works

1 5 .

Edinburgh Housing

and the years following the War

- Household Bills and Notices

- Prefab Housing -  constructed 1940s

1 6 .

Edinburgh Street Furniture

There are some recollections included amongst the photos that I have added to these sections of the EdinPhoto web site:

- Gates and Railings

- Street Lighting

- Letter Boxes

- Police Boxes

- Posters and Adverts

- Road Signs

- Statues

- Street Names

- Telephone Boxes

1 7 .

Film Clips and Films

- Arthur Street 1961

- Edinburgh Streets 1950

- Old Sugarhouse Close 1939

- Princes Street Allies Week Parade 1942

- St Cuthbert's Milk Deliveries 1967

- Ritz Cinema Construction 1929

- Singing in Edinburgh Streets 1950s

** These links will take you to different web sites.  To return
to the EdinPhoto web site, you will have to click on 'back'.

More Recollection s ?

Thank you to all for sharing your memories in and around Edinburgh.  I've been pleased to be able to add many memories to this site. If you have any other memories, comments or questions that you'd like to share, please e-mail me

Thank you. - Peter Stubbs

Contributors'  Index