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45 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

What was Blyths all about?  - Sale on but still popular by the looks of this

 

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I seem to remember it was  a moderately priced department store, so their sale prices would be tempting. Somewhere inside me is a feeling that these sale days were a new post war syndrome. But I could be mistaken, although a lot of what were American  things were picked up.

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1 minute ago, FinnBarr Saunders said:

 

Think so, Auld Clachan and the Black Pig not far away over the road.

 

Wasn't the owner of Fat Sams daughter murdered in there? 80s maybe.

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2 minutes ago, FinnBarr Saunders said:

 

Wasn't the owner of Fat Sams daughter murdered in there? 80s maybe.

She was murdered in the nightclub Anabelas.

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9 minutes ago, FinnBarr Saunders said:

 Was that a different place? And where was it?

Yes it was and just round the corner in Semple Street.

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11 hours ago, Radio Ga Ga said:

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 This two pictures are exactly why I love this thread. They conjure up memories of many years ago when it was all starting. Patrick Thomsons was where my wife to be got her first job in Edinburgh. She was in the cashiers office doing well despite being new to the British monitory system. Pounds shillings and pence instead of dollars nickles and dimes. Grants was a store on different corner. It was the site of a rejuvenation of my now retired after many years father. My mother persuaded him to go to the restaurant for lunch, quite a change for a man who all his married working life despite offers of different food, insisted on having cheese sandwiches for his work meals. He even would accompany Mum to Grants on occasion for a mid morning cup of tea or horrors coffee. Both stores were the base of the start of new lives for three very important people in my life, and without this thread I would probably never have had the opportunity to sit and mull with joy, and sorrow the valuable memories.

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3 minutes ago, Radio Ga Ga said:

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 The picture is a bit before my time, but in 1951/52, when working at the Viewforth Garage at Viewforth Terrace I had to carry car exhaust pipes and exhausts to a blacksmiths shop, Kenny McIntosh in  Horne Terrace for welding repairs. At the far end of the picture is Viewforth, and there opposite Horne Terrace was a shop we  called Aunties, which we Boroughmuir pupils used to go to at lunch time and get a Vantas to drink. There was also a car body repair shop at that end called Robertson and Gray. another wee part/place of Boabs memories, again all pretty happy.

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On 19/12/2020 at 20:34, weehammy said:

Wonder when the shop units were built in front of those quite elegant houses. Presume they had gardens originally.

 

They were in fact pretty exclusive before the shops. A certain Dr Robert Knox had a house there behind what is now the drycleaners.

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/murder-houses-edinburgh-new-book-19361440

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20 minutes ago, BarneyBattles said:

 

Looks quite military that parade - maybe men signing up for WWI?

Funeral cortege? Looks a bit like a coffin on a gun carriage?

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31 minutes ago, BarneyBattles said:

 

Looks quite military that parade - maybe men signing up for WWI?

Think it’s a funeral cortège, dates from the mid 1910’s

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4 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

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Jeeze, that day half the office (ie most of the guys) took a half-day to go see "Caligula".  But we missed the matinee showing as everyone was in the boozer getting wrecked. Happy days. 

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