sinks Posted November 18 Just now, Maroon Sailor said: Bonnington Road Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
luckyBatistuta Posted November 19 5 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FinnBarr Saunders Posted November 19 6 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said: Whats happened there then? Crowd in the middle of the road, policeman striding towards them.....Bob, is it you? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
luckyBatistuta Posted November 19 (edited) On 17/11/2019 at 20:54, Lemongrab said: Here's another photo from the same collection. Maybe it's somewhere round wherever this is? Could be Spylaw Road. The pillars both side look like they are in the right place and the iron fence on the right too, just before the junction. Looks slightly off, but I think that’s because it’s been taken from the left kerb, but google earth is in the middle of the road. There has been so many houses knocked down and others built on that road too. Edited November 19 by luckyBatistuta Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobsharp Posted November 19 44 minutes ago, FinnBarr Saunders said: Whats happened there then? Crowd in the middle of the road, policeman striding towards them.....Bob, is it you? Christ I can't remember where I left my glasses, and you want me to remember that. From my brilliant powers of observation I would say its an MVA involving injury, the policeman walking to the scene could be a sergeant who as they did had a habit of attending when all the work was finished.🙂 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FinnBarr Saunders Posted November 19 1 minute ago, bobsharp said: Christ I can't remember where I left my glasses, and you want me to remember that. From my brilliant powers of observation I would say its an MVA involving injury, the policeman walking to the scene could be a sergeant who as they did had a habit of attending when all the work was finished.🙂 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jambo-Jimbo Posted November 19 1 hour ago, Maroon Sailor said: Somewhere in Niddrie/Craigmillar by the looks of the corner house. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maroon Sailor Posted November 19 1 hour ago, Jambo-Jimbo said: Somewhere in Niddrie/Craigmillar by the looks of the corner house. That's what I thought but somebody reckons it's Crewe Road Gardens Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lemongrab Posted November 19 On 17/11/2019 at 21:50, 3fingersreid said: Hermitage Drive ? 8 hours ago, luckyBatistuta said: Could be Spylaw Road. The pillars both side look like they are in the right place and the iron fence on the right too, just before the junction. Looks slightly off, but I think that’s because it’s been taken from the left kerb, but google earth is in the middle of the road. There has been so many houses knocked down and others built on that road too. Could be any of those, though Spylaw Rd looks more like it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lemongrab Posted November 19 12 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said: Looks like Whitson Crescent. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
luckyBatistuta Posted November 19 3 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said: 33 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said: That's what I thought but somebody reckons it's Crewe Road Gardens it is Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maroon Sailor Posted November 19 Apparently this is the Palladium. No idea where it was Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobsharp Posted November 19 44 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said: Apparently this is the Palladium. No idea where it was Either Bread Street or Fountainbridge, near the old St Cuthberts. My mother loved that old theatre as did I Johnny Victory, Lex Maclean and others. Indirectly it was part of the reason I met my to be wife sixty two years ago. My Wednesday night polis friends had reasons none of them were going out that night. I as a result took my mother to the first house of the Palladium. After the show and we were going for the bus she said she would buy me a pint and she would go home herself. I had a pint went to the Cavendish the first people I saw were my no going out friends, I gave them a fairly obscene c haracter desc ription, saw a beautiful what I thought was an American girl with a beautiful tan, light colored hair with sun bleaced ends, I asked her for a dance and here we are sixty two years later, and she is still as beautiful to me as then.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart Lyon Posted November 19 5 hours ago, bobsharp said: Either Bread Street or Fountainbridge, near the old St Cuthberts. My mother loved that old theatre as did I Johnny Victory, Lex Maclean and others. Indirectly it was part of the reason I met my to be wife sixty two years ago. My Wednesday night polis friends had reasons none of them were going out that night. I as a result took my mother to the first house of the Palladium. After the show and we were going for the bus she said she would buy me a pint and she would go home herself. I had a pint went to the Cavendish the first people I saw were my no going out friends, I gave them a fairly obscene c haracter desc ription, saw a beautiful what I thought was an American girl with a beautiful tan, light colored hair with sun bleaced ends, I asked her for a dance and here we are sixty two years later, and she is still as beautiful to me as then.. East Fountainbridge behind the St Cuthbert's Store (now the hotel) in Bread Street Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Seymour M Hersh Posted November 19 I was speaking to an older chap last week and he was telling me there used to be a golf club in Cammo (closed down in the early 1920s I think he said). The clubhouse was in Cammo Road (recently knocked down and a rather splendid house built in it's place) and the course spread out behind it. It was the first time I'd heard anything about a club being there? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
luckyBatistuta Posted November 19 6 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said: I can see my house where I spent the first 11 years of my life👌 4 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said: Fekn grumpy old #### has a lot to answer for. Place was there long before he showed up🤬 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart Lyon Posted November 20 13 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said: Where is this and what's the name of the pub - I can't make it out even after zooming in. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart Lyon Posted November 20 A friend sent me this the other day - no idea what year its from but it looks like early 1920/30s Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lemongrab Posted November 20 35 minutes ago, Stuart Lyon said: Where is this and what's the name of the pub - I can't make it out even after zooming in. Edinphoto has it as East Adam Street. It must be the one here. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jambothump Posted November 20 17 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said: The Gilded Balloon Cowgate fire of 2001, from Blair Street ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jambothump Posted November 20 17 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said: Crivvens, The Abbey Buffet is still there on South Clerk Street, and not changed much. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jambothump Posted November 20 2 hours ago, Stuart Lyon said: A friend sent me this the other day - no idea what year its from but it looks like early 1920/30s Top of Cockburn Street on the Royal Mile Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jambothump Posted November 20 1 hour ago, Maroon Sailor said: Grassmarket ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lemongrab Posted November 20 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Jambothump said: Top of Cockburn Street on the Royal Mile Further up. That's Deacon Brodie's on the corner. Edit: Maybe it isn't the other building don't look right. Edited November 20 by Lemongrab Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jambothump Posted November 20 2 minutes ago, Lemongrab said: Further up. That's Deacon Brodie's on the corner. I read it as The Black Swan, which was on the corner of Cockburn St and Royal Mile ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lemongrab Posted November 20 2 minutes ago, Jambothump said: I read it as The Black Swan, which was on the corner of Cockburn St and Royal Mile ? Aye, hence my edit while you were posting. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maroon Sailor Posted November 20 19 minutes ago, Jambothump said: Grassmarket ? Looking better than it is now Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
