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34 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Lily the Pink

 

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That's in George Heriots School playground.

 

I'm assuming the group is The Scaffold?

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Maroon Sailor
Posted
6 minutes ago, Morgan said:

That's in George Heriots School playground.

 

I'm assuming the group is The Scaffold?

 

Indeed

 

It's the ony song from them I know

Maroon Sailor
Posted
9 minutes ago, Morgan said:

No, thankfully not personal experience!

 

Had a few narrow squeaks though. 🫣

 

I'm struggling to read that sober. Had a few attempts 😂

Posted
4 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

I'm struggling to read that sober. Had a few attempts 😂

Let me know when you're drunk, and I'll send it again.

 

:biggrin:

Footballfirst
Posted
5 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Indeed

 

It's the ony song from them I know

You'd probably recognise "Thank you very much" or "Liverpool Lou"

Maroon Sailor
Posted
8 minutes ago, Footballfirst said:

You'd probably recognise "Thank you very much" or "Liverpool Lou"

 

I'll have to YouTube them

Maroon Sailor
Posted
1 hour ago, Morgan said:

Let me know when you're drunk, and I'll send it again.

 

:biggrin:

 

I think I'll make a better job of it 😂

 

A bit like Alex Higgins playing snooker

davemclaren
Posted
15 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

That bus is going the wrong way unless you could turn down Queensferry Street from Lothian Road in those days.

 

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You could before the mid 60s.   

Maroon Sailor
Posted
3 minutes ago, davemclaren said:

You could before the mid 60s.   

 

I've only known that to be blocked off or how it is now.

 

I'm thinking now the 34 might have went down to Stockbridge after the Dean bridge

Maroon Sailor
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John Findlay
Posted
10 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

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Broughton Secondary. The one opened in 1973, and subsequently demolished and replaced by the school now there.

Which my youngest son attended until last year.

Maroon Sailor
Posted
27 minutes ago, John Findlay said:

Broughton Secondary. The one opened in 1973, and subsequently demolished and replaced by the school now there.

Which my youngest son attended until last year.

 

I remember playing Broughton primary in the school board cup. It's unusual for a primary and high school to have the same name in Edinburgh.

John Findlay
Posted
4 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

I remember playing Broughton primary in the school board cup. It's unusual for a primary and high school to have the same name in Edinburgh.

In the 70s there was also a Gracemount primary and Secondary too.

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Maroon Sailor
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Hero's welcome for oor Ken

 

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Posted
2 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

I remember playing Broughton primary in the school board cup. It's unusual for a primary and high school to have the same name in Edinburgh.

 

2 hours ago, John Findlay said:

In the 70s there was also a Gracemount primary and Secondary too.

Trinity as well, even the same uniform which must have saved parents a few quid. 

Posted
2 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Hero's welcome for oor Ken

 

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Used to stay round the corner from my aunt.  She used to see him out training (running) with weights on his ankles.

Maroon Sailor
Posted
6 minutes ago, FWJ said:

Used to stay round the corner from my aunt.  She used to see him out training (running) with weights on his ankles.

 

He was Edinburgh through and through but he never got an opportunity to box in Edinburgh

 

Whipped Jim Watt in Glasgow though

 

Heart of a Lion. Only stopped once in his career. Roberto Duran with that low blow

Maroon Sailor
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Who put that lamppost there?!!

 

A picture paints a thousand words

 

Or a lorry in this case

 

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20 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

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Fountainbridge 

Posted
50 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

Who put that lamppost there?!!

 

A picture paints a thousand words

 

Or a lorry in this case

 

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A shaggy dog story ….?

Maroon Sailor
Posted
9 minutes ago, FWJ said:

A shaggy dog story ….?

 

 

 

 

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1 minute ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

 

 

 

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👍😁

Maroon Sailor
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He probably done his best to avoid the lamppost but when Dulux out, it's out

Byyy The Light
Posted
5 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

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Forrester 

Dirty Deeds
Posted
1 hour ago, Maroon Sailor said:

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Granton Gasworks?

Posted
5 hours ago, Maroon Sailor said:

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22 minutes ago, Byyy The Light said:


Forrester 

Jesus, what a bloody dump.

Byyy The Light
Posted
6 minutes ago, Morgan said:

 

Jesus, what a bloody dump.


That bit in the photo is a football pitch now

Posted
2 minutes ago, Byyy The Light said:


That bit in the photo is a football pitch now

Thanks. 👍

 

I've never seen that place in my life, and I was born in Edinburgh too.

 

Not really my part of town, I suppose.

Byyy The Light
Posted
1 minute ago, Morgan said:

Thanks. 👍

 

I've never seen that place in my life, and I was born in Edinburgh too.

 

Not really my part of town, I suppose.


I didn’t go to Forrester but that lay-by outside the gates was the meeting point for my football team for about 6 years.

 

12pm every Saturday. 

Maroon Sailor
Posted
23 minutes ago, Dirty Deeds said:

Granton Gasworks?

 

Granton Gasworks railway station

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Footballfirst
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1 hour ago, Maroon Sailor said:

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I recognise that from Makro's in the top right corner

Footballfirst
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1906 image of the east end of Princes Street / Waterloo Place (Lost Edinburgh).

 

The image looks to have been touched up, going by how the people stand out, such as the boy in the kilt and the one who looks to be on his mobile phone at the bottom of the pic.

 

Someone on the LE Facebook post also pointed out that the the frontages at the end of Waterloo Place were the same on both sides of the road (as they still are today), which I was unaware of.

 

May be an image of one or more people, Rijksmuseum and street

Footballfirst
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19th Century pic of the old North Bridge viewed from Market Street.

 

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Maroon Sailor
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Did the old St Augustine's school have a swimming pool?

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41 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

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Bottom one definitely Canongate, top one probably Canongate.

 

Are you drunk or sober today?

 

:biggrin:

Maroon Sailor
Posted
3 minutes ago, Morgan said:

 

Bottom one definitely Canongate, top one probably Canongate.

 

Are you drunk or sober today?

 

:biggrin:

 

I pathed the Leith Poleeth tetht, tho thober

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