Edinburgh History

[Maroon Sailor]

3 minutes ago, westbow said:

The area to the left of the gallery being used as a car park or bus depot.

 

Looks like tour buses

[pablo]

2 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Cases on the roof.

 

Luxury travel Edinburgh to London - must have took ages though

 

 

 

 

 

In the top picture, the bloke in the cap with his hands in his pockets wouldn't look out of place if he was dropped into the year 2020. Funny how fashions return.

[Gorgie Boot boy]

1 minute ago, pablo said:

 

In the top picture, the bloke in the cap with his hands in his pockets wouldn't look out of place if he was dropped into the year 2020. Funny how fashions return.

Eh. Who do you know wears that these days.

Is it the Cap ?

[been here before]

47 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

Thats the roundabout outside Longstone Bus Garage.

[NANOJAMBO]

13 hours ago, The Real Maroonblood said:

You’re correct.

Responding for a friend.

[NANOJAMBO]

2 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

You can lead a horse to water

 

This looks grim. Where is/was this ? 

[JWL]

22 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

We got an answer on this one yet? Sure I know it but just can't put my finger on it.

[Radio Ga Ga]

2 minutes ago, JWL said:

 

We got an answer on this one yet? Sure I know it but just can't put my finger on it.

Is it Napier university?

[Tazio]

47 minutes ago, pablo said:

 

In the top picture, the bloke in the cap with his hands in his pockets wouldn't look out of place if he was dropped into the year 2020. Funny how fashions return.

True, but he’d be a hipster . 

[Tazio]

Just now, Tazio said:

True, but he’d be a hipster . 

Well that’s very clever of the mods. I used a not very polite term for, erm, a self abuser after the word hipster and it automatically deleted itself when I hit submit reply. 

[pablo]

27 minutes ago, JWL said:

 

We got an answer on this one yet? Sure I know it but just can't put my finger on it.

 

Liberton hospital?

[Dough Ball]

27 minutes ago, JWL said:

 

We got an answer on this one yet? Sure I know it but just can't put my finger on it.

That Liberton Hospital, still looks exactly the same.

[Doctor FinnBarr]

2 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Those little bubble cars were around longer than I thought

 

 

I'm not certain but I think that bubble car was a Heinkel plus you can see the back end of a Beetle going towards the bus. How many German cars were here in a period when the war must still have been raw in many folks minds?

[Maroon Sailor]

1 hour ago, JWL said:

 

We got an answer on this one yet? Sure I know it but just can't put my finger on it.

 

Liberton Hospital

 

I see it's been replied to ! 😄

Edited December 24, 2020 by Maroon Sailor

[Maroon Sailor]

1 hour ago, NANOJAMBO said:

This looks grim. Where is/was this ? 

 

Causewayside

[Sharpie]

19 minutes ago, FinnBarr Saunders said:

 

I'm not certain but I think that bubble car was a Heinkel plus you can see the back end of a Beetle going towards the bus. How many German cars were here in a period when the war must still have been raw in many folks minds?

   

I think that picture would be mid fifties or later, the Barbecue opened in my police time which started in 1956. By then Germany was O.K the Russians were the bad guys, and the veterans of the Korean war were home.

 

 

Edited December 24, 2020 by Sharpie

[JWL]

4 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

Liberton Hospital

 

I see it's been replied to ! 😄

 

Yeah, wouldn't have got it to be fair.

[Doctor FinnBarr]

2 minutes ago, Sharpie said:

   

I think that picture would be mid fifties or later, ther Barbecue opened in my police time which started in 1956.

 

I think the war would still be (as I said) raw in many peoples minds though. I was born in 61 and was considered part of the post war baby boom.

[jb102]

2 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Those little bubble cars were around longer than I thought

 

D.Simpson Ltd tobacconist later became Charlie Macnair's deli I seem to remember.Jazz musician of some repute and supplier of lunchtime sandwiches.

[Biko]

15 minutes ago, FinnBarr Saunders said:

 

I think the war would still be (as I said) raw in many peoples minds though. I was born in 61 and was considered part of the post war baby boom.

https://www.beervisits.eu/pub-bar-visit/pub-visit-scotland/220-pv-edinburgh/797-edinburgh-old-town-doctor-s

 

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One of the two earlier incumbents of the building was George Watson who was a cabinet and coffin maker who gathered most of his custom from the Infirmary. His business operated from 1884 through to 1959. The other notable lessee was James Gardiner who made surgical instruments. He continued until the early 1960s and went out of business because of competition with major manufacturers.

After the last businesses left the building it opened its doors as a BBQ restaurant. Yet, although this was said to be popular it closed and reopened as a pub named ”The Mortar” in 1970. In 1979 it adopted its present title in recognition of the nearby hospital. It is now owned by the Taylor Walker pub company."

[Sharpie]

1 hour ago, Biko said:

https://www.beervisits.eu/pub-bar-visit/pub-visit-scotland/220-pv-edinburgh/797-edinburgh-old-town-doctor-s

 

"

One of the two earlier incumbents of the building was George Watson who was a cabinet and coffin maker who gathered most of his custom from the Infirmary. His business operated from 1884 through to 1959. The other notable lessee was James Gardiner who made surgical instruments. He continued until the early 1960s and went out of business because of competition with major manufacturers.

After the last businesses left the building it opened its doors as a BBQ restaurant. Yet, although this was said to be popular it closed and reopened as a pub named ”The Mortar” in 1970. In 1979 it adopted its present title in recognition of the nearby hospital. It is now owned by the Taylor Walker pub company."

Thanks very much it became the Barbecue a bit later than I thought, I wonder if it closed so fast because of location. Would have been popular with students which could possibly have made it less so with regular public. I don't seem to remember hamburgers actually replacing fish suppers as a treat just yet. There was another hamburger place in the old Regal Cinema, it was part of a franchise. My Canadian girlfriend was excited to get a real 'burger and did so and ate it hungrily. She started to choke and ended up in hospital where they found an over fried onion piece had scratched her throat causing the feeling of choking. No more hamburger treats for  until we got to Canada and Macdonalds got going. My apologies read the dates wrong and thought it had closed in less than a year, it did last quite a while.

Edited December 24, 2020 by Sharpie

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[Doctor FinnBarr]

1 hour ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

Got to be St Johns road outside the Harp or whatever it is nowadays.

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[JWL]

Just now, Maroon Sailor said:

 

Actually yards from where I grew up in Lindsay Road. The railway eventually made way for a new road from Leith to Newhaven

[Sharpie]

24 minutes ago, FinnBarr Saunders said:

 

Got to be St Johns road outside the Harp or whatever it is nowadays.

 When I lived in Clerwood Loan used to walk down to the Harp and have a five o'clock pint while the wife done her duty and fed the bairns. That was 1964 to 1966/67

Edited December 24, 2020 by Sharpie

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[luckyBatistuta]

12 hours ago, NANOJAMBO said:

This looks grim. Where is/was this ? 

Where West Crosscauseway meets Buccleuch Street

 

 

 

 

Edited December 25, 2020 by luckyBatistuta

[luckyBatistuta]

4 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Junction of Bonnington Road and Pilrig St

4 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Glenogle Road at Hugh Miller Place

 

[Kennedy Bakircioglu]

17 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Where about is this, if you don't mind me asking?

[Maroon Sailor]

1 hour ago, Kennedy Bakircioglu said:

Where about is this, if you don't mind me asking?

 

Royal High school rugby team

[Biko]

35 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

Royal High school rugby team

Jock's Lodge RHS playing fields.

[Doctor FinnBarr]

On 24/12/2020 at 20:18, Maroon Sailor said:

 

I could be wrong but I'm going for the city bypass when it was only from Wester Hailes to Fairmilehead. Occasion? At a guess something to do with the 70 Commy games when it was used for cycling.

[Sharpie]

On 24/12/2020 at 11:50, Maroon Sailor said:

  My Uncle Jock was a porter at the Waverley during WW2, Willie Merrilees was I think a Detective in the Edinburgh Police. He approached Jock and asked him to do something, I never heard what but it wasn't much, but Merrilees went on to arrest the man who turned out to be a German spy. Made Merrilees name. I don't know how he got into the police he was not a very tall man.

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2 minutes ago, Sharpie said:

  My Uncle Jock was a porter at the Waverley during WW2, Willie Merrilees was I think a Detective in the Edinburgh Police. He approached Jock and asked him to do something, I never heard what but it wasn't much, but Merrilees went on to arrest the man who turned out to be a German spy. Made Merrilees name. I don't know how he got into the police he was not a very tall man.

Bob, that's one of the things I love about you; you so often add flesh to the bones of history. A quick google search finds William Merilees has his own Wikipedia page. Thanks for that, very interesting. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Merrilees

[Maroon Sailor]

1 hour ago, FinnBarr Saunders said:

 

I could be wrong but I'm going for the city bypass when it was only from Wester Hailes to Fairmilehead. Occasion? At a guess something to do with the 70 Commy games when it was used for cycling.

 

It was the opening of the Forth Road Bridge in 1964

[Maroon Sailor]

23 minutes ago, Sharpie said:

  My Uncle Jock was a porter at the Waverley during WW2, Willie Merrilees was I think a Detective in the Edinburgh Police. He approached Jock and asked him to do something, I never heard what but it wasn't much, but Merrilees went on to arrest the man who turned out to be a German spy. Made Merrilees name. I don't know how he got into the police he was not a very tall man.

 

He had a fascinating life and career

 

https://newbattleatwar.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/willie-merrielees-to-catch-a-spy-in-edinburgh/

 

 

Edited December 26, 2020 by Maroon Sailor

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