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13 minutes ago, luckyBatistuta said:

One day😞

I don’t 🤷‍♂️

Don’t ever remember seeing that, reckon it was gone before me.

I’m not old enough but I remember seeing photos of it somewhere. 

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joondalupjambo
18 hours ago, luckyBatistuta said:

Wasn’t sure of the year bud👍

Ah sorry thought you meant location.  From Dundee Street, Fountainbridge in the 70's and notes 1975 as the year.

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11 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

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Tollcross area, Home Street.

And how about that for a bus stop with proper signage and numbers.  None of this twitter, twatter, instogrim, fatbook sync your phone for latest arrivals or flashing arrival times via a satellite.  You just stood there, with your bucket obviously and waited and waited and waited and waited!!  

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30 minutes ago, joondalupjambo said:

Tollcross area, Home Street.

And how about that for a bus stop with proper signage and numbers.  None of this twitter, twatter, instogrim, fatbook sync your phone for latest arrivals or flashing arrival times via a satellite.  You just stood there, with your bucket obviously and waited and waited and waited and waited!!  

 

And a proper tin bucket at that. None of your pishy plastic split up the side, dont place hot ashes in, made in China and sold in B and M stores type bucket.

 

But a real mans bucket likely made in a factory by men who wore bunnets and smoked Woodbine, the type of bucket sold in drysalter shops by a man in a brown overcoat who could also sell you mousetraps, a pound of nails or a new string mop head if the mop youd bought the wife for her birthday was wearing out.

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Talking about bus stops can anyone remember what that is on the right of this bus shelter. Can vaguely remember them on seeing this

 

1979

 

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Maroon Sailor
13 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

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I think this is Bingham.

 

Bingham Way maybe

 

 

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23 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Colinton Mains going to Oxgangs primary 1963

 

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I don’t remember the blazer badge when I was there. In fact I don’t think we wore uniforms. 

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The Real Maroonblood
12 minutes ago, jb102 said:

I don’t remember the blazer badge when I was there. In fact I don’t think we wore uniforms. 

It’s Firhill secondary school badge.

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Maroon Sailor
26 minutes ago, jb102 said:

I don’t remember the blazer badge when I was there. In fact I don’t think we wore uniforms. 

 

12 minutes ago, The Real Maroonblood said:

It’s Firhill secondary school badge.

 

Yeah, looks like a little first year going to Firrhill

 

Duffle coats must have been all the rage in the 60's

 

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11 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

 

Yeah, looks like a little first year going to Firrhill

 

Duffle coats must have been all the rage in the 60's

 

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You see still them now and again.

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6 minutes ago, Tazio said:

That’s Brunswick Street at the corner with Leith Walk (actually Brunswick Place) 

 

I wasn't quite sure but see it now

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19 hours ago, Tazio said:

There’s no way that is the George in Portobello. I’ve checked the cinemas website and there is nothing about it getting a new front onto it. It was originally called The County opening in 1939 and was renamed The George in 1954. 

I live just round the corner from this building ,which  is located on the corner of Portobello High St and Hope lane, just across the street from Bellfield St. I never new it as the George, that was in Bath St. It became a bingo Hall in the 1960''s as my late mum used to work in it. It later became a nightclub called Misty''s.  It's now been converted into a block of flat. 

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37 minutes ago, obua said:

Duke street. 

 

That tram going to Corstorphine was throwing me a bit but then realised it's a single track so was heading towards the camera

 

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1 hour ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Currie 1960's

 

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Lived in Currie from 1960 to 1979. Damned if I know where this is though. Riccarton Mains Road?

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4 minutes ago, inspector said:

Lived in Currie from 1960 to 1979. Damned if I know where this is though. Riccarton Mains Road?

 

I just know Currie from the Lanark Road

 

I'm wondering if that road top left might be heading towards Heriot Watt 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

I just know Currie from the Lanark Road

 

I'm wondering if that road top left might be heading towards Heriot Watt 

 

 

If it is, it's prior to Riccarton Primary school being built. It looks like the council estate, before the Wimpey houses went up although they started late 50's as we moved in in 1960 

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2 minutes ago, NANOJAMBO said:

The old No4 bus terminus at Bingham (before these houses were flattened) ? 

 

Other side of the tunnel - this is walking out in to Niddrie

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38 minutes ago, inspector said:

Lived in Currie from 1960 to 1979. Damned if I know where this is though. Riccarton Mains Road?

The road going up the left is Curriehill Road and the road going up and round to the right is Weavers Knowe Crescent.

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1 hour ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Located in Sighthill

 

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Was next to the Len Lothian storage building - knocked down about 4 years ago and now a row of business units.

 

More bizarrely the Len Lothian building is grade A listed

 

11 Bankhead Broadway, Sighthill Industrial Estate by M J Richardson

 

11 Bankhead Broadway, Sighthill Industrial Estate

An A-listed large warehouse block designed in 1949-50 by Stewart Sim, Ministry of Works architect. It used pioneering methods of pre-stressed concrete frame construction, with prestressed floor beams on piloti columns
 
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luckyBatistuta
5 hours ago, joondalupjambo said:

Ah sorry thought you meant location.  From Dundee Street, Fountainbridge in the 70's and notes 1975 as the year.


👍 cheers, I should have been clearer with my post
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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