Recollections

Royston Beach

   Edinburgh Waterfront - The Shore of the Firth of Forth beside West Shore Road ©

Despite the desolate appearance of this beach,
it is only about three miles from the centre of Edinburgh

1970s

 

Recollections by Andy Merrylees

Burnaby, British Colombia, Canada

Thank you to Andy Merrylees for the recollections below.  Andy lived in Edinburgh until he emigrated to Canada in 1988.

Andy's grandparents, Andrew and Lizzy  Merrylees,  moved from Canonmills to 62 Granton Crescent in 1937.  Both lived there until their deaths in the 1980s.

Andy wrote:

Coal from the Beach

"Looking at the photos of Royston beach brought back memories  from 1972 of my father, his close cousin and myself when we used to go  down there and pick up coal off the beach for our old coal fire.

We also used burn some of the coal in small bonfires we lit on the beach in the rocks facing Silverknowes.

One of my father's brothers in law didn't believe my father about the coal that we could get from the beach. 

He was speechless when he came with us one weekend.  For years, he thought that the coal came from the old mine shafts that were under the Firth of Forth."

Change?

"I remember saying to my father I wonder what this place will look like in a hundred years from now.   It has changed in the last twenty, never mind the next hundred!"

 

Andy Merrylees, Burnaby, British Colombia, Canada:   29 + 31 December 2005

 

 

 

North Edinburgh

Cramond - Granton - Royston - Trinity -  Wardie

Maps

Granton:  transport map 1932

Granton:  small map 1870

Granton:  large map 1870

Recollections

Cramond:                        from 1940s

Cramond Island:              1970s

Granton:                           1930s   1940s   1950s   1970s

Granton, Trinity, Wardie:  1940s   1950s - 60s   Shops

Lower Granton Road        all dates

Muirhouse                         from 1930s

Pilton:                               1940 bomb

Royston:                            from 1930s

Wardie School:                 1930s    1940s   1950s

                                         1960s    1970s   1980s

History

Granton, Trinity, Wardie:  from 1544

 

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