Edinburgh History

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[Tazio]

26 minutes ago, The Frenchman Returns said:

 

One of Sir Basil Spence's first projects. 

[Montgomery Brewster]

On 06/07/2018 at 00:42, Maroon Sailor said:

Fantastic picture. Love it

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Kennerty Dairy, West Bryson Road.

 

 

[Maroon Sailor]

1 hour ago, Montgomery Brewster said:

Fantastic picture. Love it

 

The copper looks like he is trying to be professional 

 

The wee boy in the blue on the right looking up with his scarf above his head !

 

The guy with the " It should have been ten " just below the right hand red surround Texaco sign

 

Edited July 7, 2018 by Maroon Sailor

[Harry Potter]

Love this place, my gran stayed in comely bank place, great memories of people with their remote

controlled boats.

[John Findlay]

21 minutes ago, Harry Potter said:

Love this place, my gran stayed in comely bank place, great memories of people with their remote

controlled boats.

Inverleith pond. Very bad winter of 78/79. I remember ice skating on it in the dark. Ice was 2 feet thick in places.

[Maroon Sailor]

[Shanks said no]

Farming at Broomhouse Farm circa 1950

 

Irish Corner, High Street, Corstorphine circa 1890

Edited July 7, 2018 by The Frenchman Returns

[Maroon Sailor]

Had no idea this was a hotel. I know it was known as HMS Claverhouse

 

 

[Stuart Lyon]

Harry Potter - I once saw a guy with a remote controlled duck at Inverleith Pond

 

The Granton Hotel - from 160 years ago today. I have a plan fo the cellar somewhere in the house.

 

 

 

Edited July 7, 2018 by Stuart Lyon

[John Findlay]

3 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Had no idea this was a hotel. I know it was known as HMS Claverhouse

 

 

It's not a hotel. No longer HMS Claverhouse but is still MOD property.

[Maroon Sailor]

3 minutes ago, John Findlay said:

It's not a hotel. No longer HMS Claverhouse but is still MOD property.

 

It was a hotel back in the day, you can still see Granton Hotel on the brick work of the colour phot

 

What is it used for now ? Army Reserves ?

 

 

 

 

Edited July 7, 2018 by Maroon Sailor

[John Findlay]

47 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

It was a hotel back in the day, you can still see Granton Hotel on the brick work of the colour phot

 

What is it used for now ? Army Reserves ?

 

 

 

 

Aye TA. With garage for vehicles.

[Sharpie]

1 hour ago, John Findlay said:

It's not a hotel. No longer HMS Claverhouse but is still MOD property.

 

 

My memory of it was as a navy headquarters. My mother went there to visait her sailor nephew who was in custody for absence without leave.  I seem to remember after the war the Sea Cadets also worked out of there.  There was another naval camp in the Granton area, HMS Lochinvar, it was nissan huts, and was also used as was Duddingston Camp for homes after the war, I seem to recall a lot of these people were later allocated prefabs.

[John Findlay]

1 minute ago, bobsharp said:

 

 

My memory of it was as a navy headquarters. My mother went there to visait her sailor nephew who was in custody for absence without leave.  I seem to remember after the war the Sea Cadets also worked out of there.  There was another naval camp in the Granton area, HMS Lochinvar, it was nissan huts, and was also used as was Duddingston Camp for homes after the war, I seem to recall a lot of these people were later allocated prefabs.

Definitely Sea Cadets Bob. I believe Sea Cadets still meet there. In the 70s Lochinver was out at South Queensferry.

[Carl Fredrickson]

Been reading this thread for a few days and wanted to thank folk for posting pictures and memories of places in Edinburgh. 

 

Also thanks for the links to info about some of the photos - the wild west street at Morningside blew my mind. So many things about our city that I didnt know about. 

[Tazio]

5 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

Walk along there every week going to visit my mum in Fraser Gardens, still totally familiar despite not living there for over 30 years. Steel built houses that were put up in 1923 as an experiment by the Scottish Special Housing Association for a few years and were never taken down. A lot of them have now been bricked in or had cladding put on the as they are bloody freezing in the winter. The only other steel houses in Edinburgh are the Finlay scheme just off Craigentinny Road. 

Edited July 7, 2018 by Tazio

[Shanks said no]

[Shanks said no]

I had never noticed the sloping down glass at street level beside Princes Street before

[Montgomery Brewster]

9 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

The copper looks like he is trying to be professional 

 

The wee boy in the blue on the right looking up with his scarf above his head !

 

The guy with the " It should have been ten " just below the right hand red surround Texaco sign

 

The thing about it I like most is that although it’s the past - all those faces (minus plod) - all wanted the same from what we want when we turn up at the new Tyne. A win.

 

Fortunately I was able to appreciate and witness the old Tynie.

 

different era. Different times. Same out come.

 

FTH

[Shanks said no]

We wondered why Greenside Place was knocked down having been called a slum........

[Shanks said no]

Grassmarket 

 

Cowgate - I think

 

 

[Sharpie]

22 minutes ago, Montgomery Brewster said:

The thing about it I like most is that although it’s the past - all those faces (minus plod) - all wanted the same from what we want when we turn up at the new Tyne. A win.

 

Fortunately I was able to appreciate and witness the old Tynie.

 

different era. Different times. Same out come.

 

FTH

 

At one game I was right in that area, two of us were sent in because there had been some trouble, it was packed a Rangers game. At one point Hearts were defending and Rangers attacked, the ball in the net, like many others I screamed offside, the Rangers fans all around us, heard me and boy I got some abuse being the polis and shouting offside.

[Shanks said no]

Bloody trams - Liberton

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[Montgomery Brewster]

45 minutes ago, bobsharp said:

 

At one game I was right in that area, two of us were sent in because there had been some trouble, it was packed a Rangers game. At one point Hearts were defending and Rangers attacked, the ball in the net, like many others I screamed offside, the Rangers fans all around us, heard me and boy I got some abuse being the polis and shouting offside.

Well done Bob. 

 

I always enjoy your posts. A true gent. 

 

All the best. 

[been here before]

9 hours ago, The Frenchman Returns said:

Cowgate - I think

 

 

 

Is that not John Knox's house?

[Shanks said no]

1 hour ago, been here before said:

 

Is that not John Knox's house?

I zoomed in to the centre of the photo and thought the sign said Cowgate. I may be wrong though.

[been here before]

8 minutes ago, The Frenchman Returns said:

I zoomed in to the centre of the photo and thought the sign said Cowgate. I may be wrong though.

 

Nah looking at it again its not John Knoxs house. Its sitting on a road going uphill where as Knoxs house is on a road downhill toward the Palace.

[ando1504]

11 hours ago, The Frenchman Returns said:

Cowgate - I think

 

 

 

https://canmore.org.uk/collection/1345333

 

Image here dated 1868, says it is junction of Cowgate and St Mary's Wynd, which was later replaced by St Mary's Street

[ando1504]

The Church tower on the left appears to be St Patrick's in the Cowgate, next to Holiday Inn

[obua]

On 07/07/2018 at 10:26, John Findlay said:

The building behind and left of the clock is currently being demolished.  I have no idea what is taking its place but, if I was a betting man my money would be on flats/apartments.

Correct it’s going to be flats,I think there is plans for shops at the front on the street.

[ando1504]

Edinburgh Savings Bank, Stockbridge.

[ando1504]

The Scottish National Exhibition in Saughton Park ran for only six months, attracting nearly 3.5 million visitors. It began with a plan to repeat the success of an earlier exhibition at The Meadows in 1886.

 

https://www.capitalcollections.org.uk/index.php?a=ViewItem&i=36627&WINID=1531044592146

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6 minutes ago, ando1504 said:

The Scottish National Exhibition in Saughton Park ran for only six months, attracting nearly 3.5 million visitors. It began with a plan to repeat the success of an earlier exhibition at The Meadows in 1886.

 

https://www.capitalcollections.org.uk/index.php?a=ViewItem&i=36627&WINID=1531044592146

 

Here's a thread from a while back about the exhibition.

 

http://www.hmfckickback.co.uk/index.php?/topic/42584-saughton-park-101-years-of-decay/&tab=comments#comment-854882

 

[ando1504]

Drum Street, Gilmerton

[Bridge of Djoum]

 

 

''Papes Cottages'' at Roseburn Cliff. One of the prettiest and least traveled small streets in the city. 21 houses, and the biggest one I think was owned by a man who did in the Piper Alpha incident.

 

I was the postie here many moons ago, always loved the few minutes I spent up there in the morning.

Edited July 8, 2018 by New York Fleapit

[Maple Leaf]

On 07/07/2018 at 05:05, Maroon Sailor said:

 

I love these then and now pictures.  Thanks for posting.

 

The 'now' picture rarely shows a improved scene over the 'then' picture.

[Sharpie]

Of course it can't be portrayed in pictures, but the difference I see and would probably hear is the sound.  I think of South Oxford Street as a real young child. Two cars one was the bookie, the other a baker, and his car was only in the street at weekends and holidays. My bed was in the front bedroom, and at times you would hear the clipclop of a horse and cart delivering milk, and if having a long lie the swish of the scaffies broom made of some kind of twigs, tram cars which ran fairly silently, other than the squeal as they changed tracks or a tight bend,  there was a certain peacefulness about the lack of other than the occasional bus or truck loud engines, police and ambulances had bells and not the shrill sirens, I am stressed was not a phrase you ever heard. I got the twilight of these days, some of the older pictures show the really quiet days achieved without major sounds and rush and bustle.

 

[Cade]

Welcome back to the Ross Fountain.

Looking awesome in the summer sunshine.

[John Findlay]

7 minutes ago, Cade said:

Welcome back to the Ross Fountain.

Looking awesome in the summer sunshine.

It is indeed.

[John Findlay]

1 hour ago, bobsharp said:

Of course it can't be portrayed in pictures, but the difference I see and would probably hear is the sound.  I think of South Oxford Street as a real young child. Two cars one was the bookie, the other a baker, and his car was only in the street at weekends and holidays. My bed was in the front bedroom, and at times you would hear the clipclop of a horse and cart delivering milk, and if having a long lie the swish of the scaffies broom made of some kind of twigs, tram cars which ran fairly silently, other than the squeal as they changed tracks or a tight bend,  there was a certain peacefulness about the lack of other than the occasional bus or truck loud engines, police and ambulances had bells and not the shrill sirens, I am stressed was not a phrase you ever heard. I got the twilight of these days, some of the older pictures show the really quiet days achieved without major sounds and rush and bustle.

 

Great pout bob. I'm a schemie.  Mainly West Pilton and Royston. No exaggeration to say that even when I was a laddie you could play fitbaw in the street as their was genuinely hardly any cars as not many people could afford one. The same cannot be said of West Pilton and Royston today. You can't move on the streets for cars. Long gone are the coalman, rag and bone man, provi man and mobile grocer and fishmonger. Changes all for the better? I'm really not so sure.

Edited July 8, 2018 by John Findlay

[Bridge of Djoum]

22 hours ago, Tazio said:

 

Walk along there every week going to visit my mum in Fraser Gardens, still totally familiar despite not living there for over 30 years. Steel built houses that were put up in 1923 as an experiment by the Scottish Special Housing Association for a few years and were never taken down. A lot of them have now been bricked in or had cladding put on the as they are bloody freezing in the winter. The only other steel houses in Edinburgh are the Finlay scheme just off Craigentinny Road. 

I think those steel houses extend along one part of Restalrig Crescent, too. 

[Maple Leaf]

1 hour ago, John Findlay said:

Great pout bob. I'm a schemie.  Mainly West Pilton and Royston. No exaggeration to say that even when I was a laddie you could play fitbaw in the street as their was genuinely hardly any cars as not many people could afford one. The same cannot be said of West Pilton and Royston today. You can't move on the streets for cars. Long gone are the coalman, rag and bone man, provi man and mobile grocer and fishmonger. Changes all for the better? I'm really not so sure.

 

When I was a kid, I would sit with my pals at the side of Boswelll Parkway, beside Royston school, and count the cars as they drove past.  We would sit there for an hour an see maybe 20, if it was a busy day.

 

I know that sounds daft to today's kids, but there was a time that kids had to make their own entertainment.  Street games of football , cricket, and rounders, foot races around the block, kick-the-can, hide-and-go-seek, high jump competitions, back green concerts.  No TV of course, and the radio had only two stations, so it was a case of amuse yourselves or go crazy from boredom.

[Sharpie]

20 minutes ago, Maple Leaf said:

 

When I was a kid, I would sit with my pals at the side of Boswelll Parkway, beside Royston school, and count the cars as they drove past.  We would sit there for an hour an see maybe 20, if it was a busy day.

 

I know that sounds daft to today's kids, but there was a time that kids had to make their own entertainment.  Street games of football , cricket, and rounders, foot races around the block, kick-the-can, hide-and-go-seek, high jump competitions, back green concerts.  No TV of course, and the radio had only two stations, so it was a case of amuse yourselves or go crazy from boredom.

 

Ach you old farts and you're in my day shit, I am away to sit in the basement and play x box, until 1.00am, live a life of fantasy and read about how it was in the dark days when you were young, |I cannot wait until my new phone arrives and I get my new books from Amazon. Oh aye some mates and I are going to get out of the house in August and explore the neighbouring streets I have never really seen them.

[John Findlay]

28 minutes ago, Maple Leaf said:

 

When I was a kid, I would sit with my pals at the side of Boswelll Parkway, beside Royston school, and count the cars as they drove past.  We would sit there for an hour an see maybe 20, if it was a busy day.

 

I know that sounds daft to today's kids, but there was a time that kids had to make their own entertainment.  Street games of football , cricket, and rounders, foot races around the block, kick-the-can, hide-and-go-seek, high jump competitions, back green concerts.  No TV of course, and the radio had only two stations, so it was a case of amuse yourselves or go crazy from boredom.

Did all that too maple. We had many a race round the streets when I was wee. 1970 we held our very own Commonwealth games amongsT the lads and lassies in Royston Mains Place.

[ando1504]

Granton Road/Rosebank Grove (again harking back to the first post, you can see Granton Rd Station, next along the line from East Pilton)

[ando1504]

On 06/07/2018 at 23:02, Maroon Sailor said:

 

Is this 'The' Fountain Bridge? (1920)

Edited July 8, 2018 by ando1504

[Maroon Sailor]

7 minutes ago, ando1504 said:

 

Is this 'The' Fountain Bridge? (1920)

 

I would have to say it is. Now I know where the name came from !

[luckyBatistuta]

22 hours ago, The Frenchman Returns said:

Grassmarket 

 

Cowgate - I think

 

 

 

You can hardly even make out St Patrick’s and it’s right beside it and folk moan about air pollution nowadays. Anyone know what that chimney in the background is?

22 minutes ago, ando1504 said:

 

Is this 'The' Fountain Bridge? (1920)

 

Good one, never seen the bridge before. There was a really busy street off to the right there, which was knocked down, as the conditions were really bad. Think it began with an ‘F’ maybe?