Edinburgh History

[Radio Ga Ga]

Tram jam, due to inconsiderate parking😀 

[Mister T]

1 hour ago, Radio Ga Ga said:

Tram jam, due to inconsiderate parking😀 

But no pot holes!

[EIEIO]

10 minutes ago, Mister T said:

But no pot holes!

Cobbles / setts less prone to pot holes. 

[EIEIO]

1 hour ago, Radio Ga Ga said:

Tram jam, due to inconsiderate parking😀 

Leith Street?

[Mister T]

52 minutes ago, EIEIO said:

Cobbles / setts less prone to pot holes. 

Also good for riots

[Morgan]

1 hour ago, EIEIO said:

Leith Street?

Yes.

 

I think the canopy on the left is where the Leith Street entrance to Roomzzz is now.

[indianajones]

Best thread on the forum. Should be documented and put in the museum. 

[Daktari]

East end of Princes Street, late 1800's.

 

[FWJ]

5 hours ago, Daktari said:

East end of Princes Street, late 1800's.

 

You can see why some people hated the N.B. when it was built.  It dominates that end of Princes Street.  It’s part of the fabric of the city now but when new it would have seemed enormous and out-of-scale.

[Footballfirst]

From Lost Edinburgh

A very rare image of the south side of the Grassmarket dating to before 1859. The roofs of the upper right hand quarter is the row of houses up to Heriot Bridge which was the original entrance into Heriots Hospital School. The buildings facing are very ramshackle and don't look long for this earth. It's a wonderful image from the photo album of Dr Thomas Keith.

 

[Seymour M Hersh]

On 22/04/2024 at 10:16, Daktari said:

East end of Princes Street, late 1800's.

 

 

I wonder what happened to the buildings that became the North British Hotel? Fire or some sort of damage or were the just knocked down for the building of the NB? 

[Daktari]

[Stuart Lyon]

18 hours ago, Footballfirst said:

From Lost Edinburgh

A very rare image of the south side of the Grassmarket dating to before 1859. The roofs of the upper right hand quarter is the row of houses up to Heriot Bridge which was the original entrance into Heriots Hospital School. The buildings facing are very ramshackle and don't look long for this earth. It's a wonderful image from the photo album of Dr Thomas Keith.

 

Much later photo of this location showing the Volunteer Arms 

[Lone Striker]

On 01/05/2024 at 17:10, Footballfirst said:

From Lost Edinburgh

A very rare image of the south side of the Grassmarket dating to before 1859. The roofs of the upper right hand quarter is the row of houses up to Heriot Bridge which was the original entrance into Heriots Hospital School. The buildings facing are very ramshackle and don't look long for this earth. It's a wonderful image from the photo album of Dr Thomas Keith.

 

Thats an incredible glimpse back in time.  Life must have been unimaginably hard back then.  No sanitation or running water or central heating  in your  flat, a daily grind of walking to a shop to buy meagre foodstuffs to get by. Most jobs would involve hard physical work.   Disease and death never far away. 

 

For all our moans about life today, we've got it easy compared to these poor souls.

 

 

[Daktari]

13 hours ago, Lone Striker said:

For all our moans about life today, we've got it easy compared to these poor souls.

And it's not that far away. My mother is 94 and her grandparents lived in conditions not unlike that.  The big change came in her parents (my own grandparents ) lifetime through the 20th century. 

[Footballfirst]

47 minutes ago, Daktari said:

And it's not that far away. My mother is 94 and her grandparents lived in conditions not unlike that.  The big change came in her parents (my own grandparents ) lifetime through the 20th century. 

I can recall visiting my grandmother in the early 1960s, who stayed in a miners row in a Lanarkshire village. There were no indoor toilet or bath/shower facilities.  You used the kitchen sink to get washed, or in the case of a young child it was a zinc bath in front of the fire.

[Stuart Lyon]

A couple of photos I found recently.

[Pap]

On 02/05/2024 at 23:42, Lone Striker said:

Thats an incredible glimpse back in time.  Life must have been unimaginably hard back then.  No sanitation or running water or central heating  in your  flat, a daily grind of walking to a shop to buy meagre foodstuffs to get by. Most jobs would involve hard physical work.   Disease and death never far away. 

 

For all our moans about life today, we've got it easy compared to these poor souls.

 

 

 

Proper winters as well.

 

I wonder if they said, at least we have it easier than our grandparents had.

[Lone Striker]

10 hours ago, Stuart Lyon said:

A couple of photos I found recently.

Great finds there, STuart. 👍 In the top one, the side where these 2 bungalows are is where Logan & Forrest dairy depot was - probably behind the left-hand house, or maybe that bungalow had gone by then.

 

Looking at Streetview, the photo seems to have been taken from the garden of 387 Queensferry Road.

 

For the bottom one, do you know when these early double deck motorised buses operated ?  I'm guessing the photo is from around 1920 ?

 

 

[Australis]

On 03/05/2024 at 13:08, Daktari said:

And it's not that far away. My mother is 94 and her grandparents lived in conditions not unlike that.  The big change came in her parents (my own grandparents ) lifetime through the 20th century. 

When you think of running water in our houses, toilets, baths, showers, central heating, electric lights, electricity and gas etc 

 

It's been for just over 100 years.

We are spoiled rotten compared to people before us.

 

Makes you wonder what the next 100 will bring.

 

Edited May 4, 2024 by Australis

[The Real Maroonblood]

On 03/05/2024 at 14:02, Footballfirst said:

I can recall visiting my grandmother in the early 1960s, who stayed in a miners row in a Lanarkshire village. There were no indoor toilet or bath/shower facilities.  You used the kitchen sink to get washed, or in the case of a young child it was a zinc bath in front of the fire.

I can relate to this and the only difference I was living in these conditions as a child. 

[PTBCAL]

On 03/05/2024 at 14:02, Footballfirst said:

I can recall visiting my grandmother in the early 1960s, who stayed in a miners row in a Lanarkshire village. There were no indoor toilet or bath/shower facilities.  You used the kitchen sink to get washed, or in the case of a young child it was a zinc bath in front of the fire.

Five of us in a one bedroom flat at Ritchie Place late 70s

 

I was getting a tin bath on a Sunday then - getting my hair washed with washing up liquid 😕

[The Real Maroonblood]

1 hour ago, PTBCAL said:

Five of us in a one bedroom flat at Ritchie Place late 70s

 

I was getting a tin bath on a Sunday then - getting my hair washed with washing up liquid 😕

The good old days.😁

[the posh bit]

On 05/04/2024 at 11:10, Dawnrazor said:

The green and white buses, I can't remember when they were.

The 72 left Edinburgh about 15 minutes after the 74, the 72 turned at Cameron Crescent and I had to walk up the back road, past the cemetery, through the wee park to get home, the 74 went all the way to Rosewell.

 

Pretty sure the SMT 74 came down Polton Brae and up via Loanhead, Straiton, Burdiehouse and into Edinburgh via Liberton. 

[Canscot]

2 hours ago, PTBCAL said:

Five of us in a one bedroom flat at Ritchie Place late 70s

 

I was getting a tin bath on a Sunday then - getting my hair washed with washing up liquid 😕

And wiping your arse with yesterdays newspaper!🤣

[The Real Maroonblood]

8 hours ago, Canscot said:

And wiping your arse with yesterdays newspaper!🤣

The Daily Mail had its uses.

[JudyJudyJudy]

On 12/04/2024 at 16:33, Mister T said:

Also good for riots

Hellish if you wear high heels though 

[Dawnrazor]

11 hours ago, the posh bit said:

 

Pretty sure the SMT 74 came down Polton Brae and up via Loanhead, Straiton, Burdiehouse and into Edinburgh via Liberton. 

You could be right, it was a long time ago.

[davemclaren]

17 hours ago, the posh bit said:

 

Pretty sure the SMT 74 came down Polton Brae and up via Loanhead, Straiton, Burdiehouse and into Edinburgh via Liberton. 

 

5 hours ago, Dawnrazor said:

You could be right, it was a long time ago.

The 74 went through Loanhead to Lasswade then Polton Mill Road End.  The 72 went to penicuik. The 78 and 79 went to Rosewell via Dalkeith, Bonnyrigg and Polton Mill Road End. The 76 was a twice a day bus that went to Lasswade then Polton Village ( not via Loanhead ).  
 

Yours

 

Billy Bus 

[Dawnrazor]

1 hour ago, davemclaren said:

 

The 74 went through Loanhead to Lasswade then Polton Mill Road End.  The 72 went to penicuik. The 78 and 79 went to Rosewell via Dalkeith, Bonnyrigg and Polton Mill Road End. The 76 was a twice a day bus that went to Lasswade then Polton Village ( not via Loanhead ).  
 

Yours

 

Billy Bus 

That'll be it, cheers👍

[Dawnrazor]

There was also a Rosewell Express bus that went straight up to Roswell rather than turn left onto to Polton Road or Lane and up the back road.

[davemclaren]

18 hours ago, the posh bit said:

 

Pretty sure the SMT 74 came down Polton Brae and up via Loanhead, Straiton, Burdiehouse and into Edinburgh via Liberton. 

Didn't go down Polton Brae, went down to Lasswade and up to Loanhead via Wadingburn/Kevock.  
 

 

[davemclaren]

16 minutes ago, Dawnrazor said:

There was also a Rosewell Express bus that went straight up to Roswell rather than turn left onto to Polton Road or Lane and up the back road.

At one point ( late 70s ) the 79A went via Polton Mill and the 79 went straight up past the Rugby club.  

[Dawnrazor]

4 minutes ago, davemclaren said:

At one point ( late 70s ) the 79A went via Polton Mill and the 79 went straight up past the Rugby club.  

👍

Edited May 5, 2024 by Dawnrazor

[PortyBeach]

On 03/04/2024 at 11:39, dannymack said:

 

 

 

That's the Old Burdiehouse Inn, then it changed to The Bird in Hand then finally Old Bordeaux. 

 

Visited that establishment many a time in the passing, further up the road was The Straiton Inn, scene of a many good old Sunday session. 

 

Wow! An extract from the “Edinburgh Pub Guide” (published 1970-71?).

Haven’t seen that in years…

[JudyJudyJudy]

Certainly remember this from my childhood . My mum cleaning  stair and pavement , as most of the neighbours did . It’s not the case now I feel . Some clarty stairs now a days . Sad times . 

[Daktari]

8 minutes ago, JudyJudyJudy said:

Certainly remember this from my childhood . My mum cleaning  stair and pavement , as most of the neighbours did . It’s not the case now I feel . Some clarty stairs now a days . Sad times . 

Likewise. We were in an upstairs flat in a 'four in a block' council house. The upstairs and downstairs houses had their front doors right next to each other on the gable end. My mother scrubbed her front steps with bleach until they gleamed white. Downstairs neighbours didn't, so there was a noticeable difference. I can't see any one doing that now - Personally I have to jet wash the mono block every spring, and that's about it.....

[JudyJudyJudy]

1 minute ago, Daktari said:

Likewise. We were in an upstairs flat in a 'four in a block' council house. The upstairs and downstairs houses had their front doors right next to each other on the gable end. My mother scrubbed her front steps with bleach until they gleamed white. Downstairs neighbours didn't, so there was a noticeable difference. I can't see any one doing that now - Personally I have to jet wash the mono block every spring, and that's about it.....

Similar to me . I still clean my stair but no one else does , often find dropped litter in stair too and cig ends . Clarty gits . 

[superjack]

2 hours ago, JudyJudyJudy said:

Similar to me . I still clean my stair but no one else does , often find dropped litter in stair too and cig ends . Clarty gits . 

Seen this and thought of you James!

[JudyJudyJudy]

9 minutes ago, superjack said:

Seen this and thought of you James!

That’s me ! 😂😂

[J.T.F.Robertson]

On 03/05/2024 at 07:02, Footballfirst said:

I can recall visiting my grandmother in the early 1960s, who stayed in a miners row in a Lanarkshire village. There were no indoor toilet or bath/shower facilities.  You used the kitchen sink to get washed, or in the case of a young child it was a zinc bath in front of the fire.

 

We had one of them, us first then the dug. 👀

 

[Shanks said no]

Discovered the old railway line route between the end of Dundee Terrace and Slateford when walking at the weekend and saw where Merchiston Station was

 

 

http://carnethy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Merchiston-Station_Then-and-Now-300x88.jpg?x15723

 

 

Edited June 17, 2024 by Shanks said no

[Shanks said no]

This might be of interest to some, ghost grounds of Gorgie, Roseburn, Stenhouse, and Merchiston

 

https://ghostgrounds.wordpress.com/2021/09/02/gorgie-stenhouse/

[Angry Haggis]

10 hours ago, Shanks said no said:

Discovered the old railway line route between the end of Dundee Terrace and Slateford when walking at the weekend and saw where Merchiston Station was

 

 

http://carnethy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Merchiston-Station_Then-and-Now-300x88.jpg?x15723

 

 

If you dig back in this thread (least I think it was this thread) there was a YouTube link to a piece of old footage of a train coming through Ardmillian heading to the old Princes street station and passing right by the Diggers, where the exit of the now current W Approach Road is. 
 

It’s great to see, just hard to find 🙈

[JWL]

[JWL]

[Montgomery Brewster]

21 hours ago, JWL said:

Remember going on a visit to the fountain brewery when at school. All the cans of red death whirring about the place. What a beer.

[The Real Maroonblood]

1 hour ago, Montgomery Brewster said:

Remember going on a visit to the fountain brewery when at school. All the cans of red death whirring about the place. What a beer.

Looking back Tartan Special was shite.

[Tazio]

1 hour ago, Montgomery Brewster said:

Remember going on a visit to the fountain brewery when at school. All the cans of red death whirring about the place. What a beer.

I think that is the Canongate brewery. 

[il Duce McTarkin]

2 hours ago, The Real Maroonblood said:

Looking back Tartan Special was shite.

 

I used to quite enjoy a pint of Special, both Tartan and Tennent's.