Edinburgh History

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1935

 

 

[argyjambo]

12 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Johnstone Terrace looking down from the castle.

[Fxxx the SPFL]

4 hours ago, NANOJAMBO said:

AS a kid, I've walked past this literally thousands of times.  Right across the street from this is the church where the memorial service for Dave Mackay was held. 

did you ever pop into the sauna when older 

[Maroon Sailor]

St Leonards where Homebase was 

 

 

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Dairy Supply Company 

 

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[Sharpie]

51 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

1935

 

 

 There is one thing for sure thing, it wasn't taken on 8th February that year because there are no crowds out celebrating my birth.

[Janbo1874]

7 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Never noticed you could buy Kitchen Equipment and Bathroom suites here

 

It was a plumbers merchant and the trade counter was in the back lane and you drove into the bus station to reach it.

I was in there many a time as a apprentice plumber early 80's.

They had a showroom at the front facing onto York Place and it was a Casino the last time I passed it.

[Stuart Lyon]

3 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

 

Is that it now ?

 

Previously Laurie's Bar and before that Doyle's Bar

[NANOJAMBO]

1 hour ago, **** the SPFL said:

did you ever pop into the sauna when older 

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Nope. I stayed away as  an adult because the whole area became gentrified and very gay* - the start of "the pink triangle". 

 

* I'm not homophobic, I just didn't like what was done to the pubs in the area. 

[Fxxx the SPFL]

24 minutes ago, NANOJAMBO said:

😆

 

Nope. I stayed away as  an adult because the whole area became gentrified and very gay* - the start of "the pink triangle". 

 

* I'm not homophobic, I just didn't like what was done to the pubs in the area. 

Cask and barrel is a good boozer agree though most of the other pubs have been bistrofied

[John Findlay]

2 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

I remember the Grassmarket like that.

[Sharpie]

2 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

St Leonards where Homebase was 

 

 

 The Clouts and down the street a wee bit Mrs Craigies shop. We went there sometimes especially to get a bottle of Lemonade because she got it from Globe, and the bottles were shaped like a globe. Thats kids because the shape of the bottle was different you thought the product was superior.

[Sharpie]

21 minutes ago, John Findlay said:

I remember the Grassmarket like that.

 Yes that would be it in my police time also. The police box still had the air raid siren on it.

Edited January 14, 2021 by Sharpie

[westbow]

3 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

The old building on the right was HMS Claverhouse. Before WW2 it was the Granton Hotel. I was told it was haunted by victims of the Tay Bridge disaster who stayed there the night before.  

[Tazio]

17 minutes ago, westbow said:

The old building on the right was HMS Claverhouse. Before WW2 it was the Granton Hotel. I was told it was haunted by victims of the Tay Bridge disaster who stayed there the night before.  

Even though I was brought up a stones throw from there my strongest memory was sledging down the hill after midnight at new year on tea trays with loads of pissed adults around the place. Would probably have been 1978 as the green goddess army fire engines were all based in the square during the firemen’s strike. 

[jambo east anglia]

2 hours ago, Stuart Lyon said:

 

Previously Laurie's Bar and before that Doyle's Bar

My grandfather worked for George Doyle in this bar after he was demobbed from the RAF in the late 1940s.  It was handy for him as he lived at 1 Glen Street, directly opposite the pub!

[Seymour M Hersh]

4 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

Dean village and bridge. 

[Seymour M Hersh]

4 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

Is that Cables Wynd at the Ferry Road end of Great Junction St?

[Tazio]

Just now, Seymour M Hersh said:

 

Is that Cables Wynd at the Ferry Road end of Great Junction St?

Coburg Street from the crossroads between Junction Street, North Junction Street, Ferry Road, and Coburg Street. 

[Seymour M Hersh]

1 minute ago, Tazio said:

Coburg Street from the crossroads between Junction Street, North Junction Street, Ferry Road, and Coburg Street. 

 

That's exactly where I meant just got the wrong street name . Cheers Tazio. 

[Tazio]

3 minutes ago, Seymour M Hersh said:

 

That's exactly where I meant just got the wrong street name . Cheers Tazio. 

Was always a popular street for young ladies out for their evening stroll. 

[Seymour M Hersh]

1 minute ago, Tazio said:

Was always a popular street for young ladies out for their evening stroll. 

 

So I was led to believe. An accommodating size of kerb to I believe.

[Jambo-Jimbo]

2 hours ago, John Findlay said:

I remember the Grassmarket like that.

 

As do I, had Grandparents who lived at Heriots Cross, I can always remember there was a Salvation Army (or similar) doss house that I used to walk past before the turn-off up the hill to their house.

[ArcticJambo]

12 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

What was the point in bricking up the doorway and windows ?

 

Where and what's the story, MS?

[Maroon Sailor]

1 hour ago, ArcticJambo said:

Where and what's the story, MS?

 

It's the demolition of the Eastern General Hospital. No idea why that was left standing

[ArcticJambo]

3 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

It's the demolition of the Eastern General Hospital. No idea why that was left standing

Thanks.

[Tazio]

I’m no expert but were the windows and door filled in to maintain the integrity of the openings? Possibly plans were in place to keep the frontage and build a modern building onto the back of it?

[Les Izemore]

On 10/01/2021 at 13:35, argyjambo said:

A wee update for you. I contacted my mate last night and he confirmed that his dad never worked at Bothwell St, but that his grandad, one Charlie Hogg did. He also lived in Bothwell St, just across the road from his work, so not much of a commute for Charlie.

As you stated, Charlie was a jambo, as was his son Alec and his grandson (my mate) John. A surprising amount of Abbeyhill residents that I knew were jambos, given the proximity to Easter Road.

Sorry I’m way late to this, but was the printers in Bothwell Street right on the corner of Easter Road with one end of the building facing an old church?

 

If it was I lived in a top floor flat there after it was converted. I was told it used to be a commercial property but not what it had been. 

[FWJ]

15 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

St Leonards where Homebase was 

 

 

If I remember right it was a ‘Texas’ before it was a Homebase?

[Maroon Sailor]

[Stuart Lyon]

8 hours ago, Les Izemore said:

Sorry I’m way late to this, but was the printers in Bothwell Street right on the corner of Easter Road with one end of the building facing an old church?

 

If it was I lived in a top floor flat there after it was converted. I was told it used to be a commercial property but not what it had been. 

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Andrew_Whyte_and_Son

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1 hour ago, FWJ said:

If I remember right it was a ‘Texas’ before it was a Homebase?

 

The only one I can remember was the one in Slateford

[FWJ]

35 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

The only one I can remember was the one in Slateford

Pretty sure there was one in St Leonard’s Street too - I was living in S. Oxford Street at the time. (Mid-80’s)

Edited January 15, 2021 by FWJ

[FWJ]

48 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

I looked at that without my specs on and thought the rivets were cars on an elevated motorway in some Abercrombie Plan / Fritz Lang ‘Metropolis’ nightmare plan for Edinburgh!

 

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[John Findlay]

14 hours ago, Tazio said:

Even though I was brought up a stones throw from there my strongest memory was sledging down the hill after midnight at new year on tea trays with loads of pissed adults around the place. Would probably have been 1978 as the green goddess army fire engines were all based in the square during the firemen’s strike. 

Did someone stay in Granton Crescent or even Granton Medway.

Went to Sea Cadets there.

[Maroon Sailor]

 

 

 

[argyjambo]

1 hour ago, Maroon Sailor said:

My old stomping grounds of Abbeyhill, taken I think from the top deck of a bus outside the Station Bar in Cadzow place looking towards Montrose Terrace & East Norton place. On the right are the Abbeyhill Colonies, where I grew up. Centre left, the white building is Field & Stream a huntin' shootin' & fishin' shop. I vividly recall all sorts of rifles displayed in the window, unthinkable these days. Centre right is the Artisan bar, still there & largely unchanged in layout, at least it was last time I was in there, all too many years ago.

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[Maroon Sailor]

2 minutes ago, argyjambo said:

My old stomping grounds of Abbeyhill, taken I think from the top deck of a bus outside the Station Bar in Cadzow place liking towards Montrose Terrace & East Norton place. On the right are the Abbeyhill Colonies, where I grew up. Centre left, the white building is Field & Stream a huntin' shootin' & fishin' shop. I vividly recall all sorts of rifles displayed in the window, unthinkable these days. Centre right is the Artisan bar, still there & largely unchanged in layout, at least it was last time I was in there, a

L too many years ago.

 

Never known a little island of grass and flowers to be there

[Maroon Sailor]

George Square