Edinburgh History

[Montgomery Brewster]

10 minutes ago, John Findlay said:

George Street. Bus coming out of Frederick Street? 

East end of princes street looking along it.

register house in middle of pic

 

taken from in front of the old gpo

Edited July 1, 2018 by Montgomery Brewster

[pablo]

https://vimeo.com/260202541?ref=em-share

Edited July 1, 2018 by pablo

[John Findlay]

1 minute ago, Montgomery Brewster said:

East end of princes street looking along it.

register house in middle of pic

Quite correct. Never noticed Wellington on his horse with the bus being right in front of him. Specsavers here I come.

[Hook]

On 30/06/2018 at 08:12, Maroon Sailor said:

 

The Barley Bree pub just before being demolished. 

[Tazio]

When burgers were classy. 

 

[Tazio]

16 hours ago, ando1504 said:

Back to the first post, Parsons Peebles, served by East Pilton railway

 

I remember that incident, we lived about half a mile away and you could hear the sound of it, like a jet taking off that went on for what seemed ages to a kid. 

[Maroon Sailor]

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The building centre right is Canal Street station which used the Scotland Street tunnel to get to Granton Harbour. This is before the Forth Bridge.  For Those travelling north, a ferry from there took you to a train at Burntisland. 

 

 

Zoomed in on sign.

 

[Angry Haggis]

21 minutes ago, Tazio said:

 

I remember that incident, we lived about half a mile away and you could hear the sound of it, like a jet taking off that went on for what seemed ages to a kid. 

 

What actually was the incident Tazio?

[pablo]

13 minutes ago, Lemongrab said:

The building centre right is Canal Street station which used the Scotland Street tunnel to get to Granton Harbour. This is before the Forth Bridge.  For Those travelling north, a ferry from there took you to a train at Burntisland. 

 

 

Zoomed in on sign.

 

 

The height of tenement in the top photo! Must be 12 stories high.

[Tazio]

19 minutes ago, Angry Haggis said:

 

What actually was the incident Tazio?

 

Some sort of massive explosion/fire in Parsons Peebles which was a factory that made transformers etc for power stations and the like. I've presumed that is what the photo is as there was another major fire at it in the 90's, the one I'm talking about must have been in the late 70's. 

 

EDIT. Turns out I'm talking shite and that image is of the fire in 1999.

Edited July 1, 2018 by Tazio

[Maroon Sailor]

[Tazio]

When they redeveloped the Empire it was a very clever bit of architecture. Everything front of house was rebuilt as a modern building and everything upstage of the proscenium arch was rebuilt as a massive state of the art stage. So you essentially have a brand new theatre building sandwiching a Victorian auditorium. This was worth doing as the original theatre was designed by Frank Matcham who was like the theatre equivalent of Archibald Leach the stadium designer and designed most of the great theatres in the UK. 

[Maroon Sailor]

[Maroon Sailor]

Calder Road before the dual carriageway

 

 

Edited July 1, 2018 by Maroon Sailor

[Tazio]

[Seymour M Hersh]

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This looks like Saughton Road, where Whinpark Medical Centre is now.  Did buses used to go into Saughton Mains?

 

 

[Maroon Sailor]

4 minutes ago, Lemongrab said:

This looks like Saughton Road, where Whinpark Medical Centre is now.  Did buses used to go into Saughton Mains?

 

 

 

 

The 3 terminus (shown here) was Saughton Mains but it just came off the Calder Road turning right in to that crescent and roun to the bus stance without going through Saughton Mains itself

[John Findlay]

1 hour ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 D Mains. Now a Tescos.

[John Findlay]

22 minutes ago, Seymour M Hersh said:

George Heriots from Victoria Street?

[Stuart Lyon]

Hook - if my memory serves me right this is what was originally the Ladyfield Bar then became  the Morrison Park and ended up as the Auld Reekie Bar before being demolished. See attached OS Map from 1940

[Chester™]

1 hour ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

9 minutes ago, John Findlay said:

 D Mains. Now a Tescos.

 

Piershill is it not? Where the Morrisons is?

[Maroon Sailor]

6 minutes ago, Chester™ said:

 

 

Piershill is it not? Where the Morrisons is?

 

I thought it was Piershill where Iceland is !

[Tazio]

19 minutes ago, John Findlay said:

 D Mains. Now a Tescos.

 

Not D Mains. 

[Chester™]

8 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

I thought it was Piershill where Iceland is !

 

Iceland is right on the junction with Northfield Broadway. The house in the picture (I think remains in part) is still there with a couple of newer ones.

Edited July 1, 2018 by Chester™

[Hook]

37 minutes ago, Stuart Lyon said:

Hook - if my memory serves me right this is what was originally the Ladyfield Bar then became  the Morrison Park and ended up as the Auld Reekie Bar before being demolished. See attached OS Map from 1940

 

Cheers Stuart - was thinking it may have been the Morrison Park. Was the Barley Bree on the same side further down Morrison St?

[graygo]

I seem to remember Mackenzie's sports shop being about here.

 

 

Edit: Maybe a wee bit further up?

Edited July 1, 2018 by graygo

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[Seymour M Hersh]

2 hours ago, Lemongrab said:

This looks like Saughton Road, where Whinpark Medical Centre is now.  Did buses used to go into Saughton Mains?

 

 

 

Looks like it. Must have been taken when they were building the high rise flats that they blew up a few years ago!!

[Seymour M Hersh]

1 hour ago, Tazio said:

 

Not D Mains. 

 

Looks like Jocks Lodge to me. 

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The flats were at the next roundabout along the road, heading west.

 

Edit:  @Seymour M Hersh not quite got the hang of the quote thing.

Edited July 1, 2018 by Lemongrab

[Seymour M Hersh]

2 hours ago, John Findlay said:

George Heriots from Victoria Street?

 

I wasn't setting it as a question John but I think you are correct although from the height of it it could be that upper level of shops accessed from Castlehill/Johnston Terrace?

[Seymour M Hersh]

2 minutes ago, Lemongrab said:

The flats were at the next roundabout along the road, heading west.

 

Edit:  @Seymour M Hersh not quite got the hang of the quote thing.

 

Did the flats not overlook the football pitches? It looked like the old changing rooms at the top of the picture which is why i thought it was them. Maybe it's not Saughton but Broomhouse Rd in the picture? 

[¼½¾]

8 minutes ago, Seymour M Hersh said:

 

Did the flats not overlook the football pitches? It looked like the old changing rooms at the top of the picture which is why i thought it was them. Maybe it's not Saughton but Broomhouse Rd in the picture? 

I think that's an electric sub station thing, which is still there, opposite Whinpark surgery.

[Seymour M Hersh]

4 minutes ago, Lemongrab said:

I think that's an electric sub station thing, which is still there, opposite Whinpark surgery.

 

Well done that would require the rebar etc lying about. 

[FORTHCLYDE]

Where in Edinburgh is this?

Hamilton Square Birkenhead built to copy Edinburgh but they ran out of money.

Edited July 1, 2018 by FORTHCLYDE

[Maroon Sailor]

[Stuart Lyon]

Hook - it was a couple of doors further up Morrison St - have another look at the OS map!

[Bridge of Djoum]

12 minutes ago, FORTHCLYDE said:

Where in Edinburgh is this?

Hamilton Square Birkenhead built to copy Edinburgh but they ran out of money.

Picardy Place?

 

Or could just be a generic New Town street.

Edited July 1, 2018 by New York Fleapit

[Hook]

1 hour ago, Stuart Lyon said:

Hook - it was a couple of doors further up Morrison St - have another look at the OS map!

 

Cheers, see it now, thanks Stuart. Was at Morrison St for work recently and was trying to work out where all the old boozers were - the bridge before the old Morrison Park is a good marker. All very corporate there now, changed days!

[Stuart Lyon]

Changed days indeed Hook - Worked in Canning street for about 16 years so know the area quite well.

[John Findlay]

3 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

The old State picture house great junction street. When a young boy. You could go there for a shilling(5p) on a Saturday afternoon. Remember seeing two mules for sister Sara there.

[Angry Haggis]

8 hours ago, Tazio said:

 

Some sort of massive explosion/fire in Parsons Peebles which was a factory that made transformers etc for power stations and the like. I've presumed that is what the photo is as there was another major fire at it in the 90's, the one I'm talking about must have been in the late 70's. 

 

EDIT. Turns out I'm talking shite and that image is of the fire in 1999.

Thanks Tazio. 

[maroondevo52]

6 hours ago, Hook said:

 

Cheers Stuart - was thinking it may have been the Morrison Park. Was the Barley Bree on the same side further down Morrison St?

 

The Barley Bree was next door to The Ladyfield which was on the corner, was my local for years.

My mum stayed opposite and a few of my mates lived above the Ladyfield, good few jambos drank there, it was run by the Demarco's at the time.

 

[Maple Leaf]

Prefabs were a common sight in Edinburgh in the 1940s and 1950s.  About 4,000 were built after the war to solve a severe housing shortage.

 

They were cold and damp in winter, but had their own back and front garden and, incredibly, each one had its own wee fridge, an unusual item in houses in those days.

 

This is the one I lived in at Hyvots in Gilmerton.

 

 

[micole]

29 minutes ago, Maple Leaf said:

Prefabs were a common sight in Edinburgh in the 1940s and 1950s.  About 4,000 were built after the war to solve a severe housing shortage.

 

They were cold and damp in winter, but had their own back and front garden and, incredibly, each one had its own wee fridge, an unusual item in houses in those days.

 

This is the one I lived in at Hyvots in Gilmerton.

 

 

I lived in a prefab in the Calders as you say cold and damp but the gardens were huge, anybody else got any pics of the prefab.

[micole]

On 30/06/2018 at 11:51, Lemongrab said:

It's Calder Road. That's St Joseph's primary on the left.

 

Here's another view of it.  I think that's the chemist and the Co-op on the right.

 

 

 

Yup that's what I thought St Joe's my old primary school

[Hook]

[SectionDJambo]

8 hours ago, graygo said:

I seem to remember Mackenzie's sports shop being about here.

 

 

Edit: Maybe a wee bit further up?

I remember my dad always calling the "Odeon", the Empire. Used to be a source of myth from me. Now I still call the new "Odeon", the ABC.

It's a shame, what has happened to the old Odeon. It was a lovely cinema before they split it into smaller units. Saw a few concerts in there too.