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31 minutes ago, Radio Ga Ga said:

Finigans Wake 1992 (before being destroyed by fire)

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Small world, was never in Finngans Wake but I do know all 3 singing into the mics, all from Blackburn.

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24 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

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Would that be the Cross Keys pub above where it says 'Slateford'?

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Stuart Lyon
13 hours ago, Mister T said:

Drying the tea towels by the looks of things 

t seems to have been the practice for grassed areas to be put to this use.The article below describes a dispute re the use of Leith Links.I

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1 minute ago, Radio Ga Ga said:

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Can see the back windows of our old house. Had a great view of the CaltonHill from my bedroom window.

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2 hours ago, Radio Ga Ga said:

Craighouse Asylum 1895

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Thats an amazing photo. Wouldnt look out of place in The Overlook Hotel.

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Maroon Sailor
17 hours ago, Lemongrab said:

Would that be the Cross Keys pub above where it says 'Slateford'?

 

Yeah - looks a lot different now. The whole left hand side of the photo has been knocked down

 

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20 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

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6 hours ago, kawasakijambo said:

Stenhouse Cross?

I’d say so ( well my wife has said it is) 

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26 minutes ago, weegranty said:

Best thread on Kickback.

It’s brilliant. 👍

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7 hours ago, Radio Ga Ga said:

Craighouse Asylum 1895

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It's a fantastic room. My sister had her wedding reception on it. The room is being kept as a communal area in the new housing development at Craighouse.

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28 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Strange looking car

 

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Isn't it an Austin A 60 0r something.

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Seymour M Hersh
3 minutes ago, Sharpie said:

Isn't it an Austin A 60 0r something.

 

Don't know what it is but googling Austin A60 this came up.

 

 

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7 minutes ago, Sharpie said:

Isn't it an Austin A 60 0r something.

Actually the A 60 was the twin of the Morris Oxford a car I bought new in 1966, that car in the picture on shaking the old ,memory bank could be a Nash Metropolitan.

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2 minutes ago, Seymour M Hersh said:

 

Don't know what it is but googling Austin A60 this came up.

 

 

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  Yes you are absolutely correct, I should have known the Edinburgh Police had a number of them. Austin for a time had an A designation for most of their models.

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Seymour M Hersh
1 minute ago, Sharpie said:

  Yes you are absolutely correct, I should have known the Edinburgh Police had a number of them. Austin for a time had an A designation for most of their models.

 

Lovely looking motor! And I good colour the one I captured. Re the other car I think it is from Europe, maybe.

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9 minutes ago, Seymour M Hersh said:

 

Lovely looking motor! And I good colour the one I captured. Re the other car I think it is from Europe, maybe.

 I just checked it is a Nash Metropolitan which was an American car, but assembled in Britain. Were around from about 1953 to 1960.

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Seymour M Hersh
4 minutes ago, Sharpie said:

 I just checked it is a Nash Metropolitan which was an American car, but assembled in Britain. Were around from about 1953 to 1960.

 

Once a cop always a cop! :lol:

 

 

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2 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

1978

 

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Always coveted that house when it was empty and the railway was overgrown and abandoned. Now I cycle past it occasionally and get pangs of jealousy. 

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3 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Strange looking car

 

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Austin Metropolitan. Designed for the American Market. Didn't sell well.... 

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4 minutes ago, Mister T said:

Austin Metropolitan. Designed for the American Market. Didn't sell well.... 

Wasn’t the Austin Atlantic the model designed to be a big seller in North America? 
 

Edit. Just checked and it was. The Metropolitan was American made and sold in Europe, the Atlantic was made to make money from exports and duly flopped in the US with sales in the hundreds. 

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19 minutes ago, Tazio said:

Wasn’t the Austin Atlantic the model designed to be a big seller in North America? 
 

Edit. Just checked and it was. The Metropolitan was American made and sold in Europe, the Atlantic was made to make money from exports and duly flopped in the US with sales in the hundreds. 

So basically, two crap cars. I'd have the minor traveller further up the road every day. My dad had one. Sold it for a Renault 14 😕

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1 hour ago, BarneyBattles said:


Bob. You really need to make a trip back to Edinburgh. 
 

It’s changed a lot but it also hasn’t really changed much. 
 

It’s still the same city. 
 

Come back when the Hearts are playing, the stadium has changed but Gorgie hasn’t. 

 

There would be a queue of people in the diggers trying to buy you a pint. 


And you could officiate during all the JKB fisticuffs 😁
 

Do it!
 

 

 

Its a nice thought but I doubt it will happen. I try to be the person I always was, but age, loss of the two women, wife and daughter in my life have sort of sapped. a lot of my energy away. The high light of my life is to get up in the morning and see what brightness JKB will put in my life today, and there is always something. But be assured if Covid goes, and my battery gets recharged, that invitation will be accepted. Then lookout for Fireworks, the Niddrie polis shall ride again hey ho on my old massive polis Raleigh.

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Worthing Jambo
30 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

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Do they still sell single fags outside the school gates?

I did like the cream buns tho😋

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30 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

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When my father was in the ARP he met a young man named Jack Martin, they became long time friends. It turned out Jack was the son of the Martins family. He came to our house every Saturday evening for tea and brought with him a box of Martins delicious cakes. There was rationing at the time still so that treat was extra special. He gifted my Dad a Hearts season  ticket which he kept until he came to Canada for his last two years after my mother died. Seeing anything Martins always gives me a taste for a Vanilla Slice or another delicacy.

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been here before
9 minutes ago, Worthing Jambo said:

Do they still sell single fags outside the school gates?

I did like the cream buns tho😋

 

Tenner bags too Ill wager.

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