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Bowling Club
at Montgomery Street |
1955
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Reproduced with acknowledgement to
Richard Middlemiss
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Bowling Club in Montgomery Street |
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Thank you
to Richard Middlemiss for sending me this photograph of bowlers,
near his home in East Thomas Street.
Richard's grandparents lived
at 19 East Thomas Street from about 1914 to 1955.
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Question |
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Bowling
Green The only
bowling green in the area that I have been able to find on old maps, lies
to the south of Montgomery Street, about 200 yards to the south of East
Thomas Street.
Is that the bowling green in
the photograph above? |
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Answer
1.
Yvonne Cain (nee Dorr)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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Yes, this photograph is probably
is of the bowling green that lies to the south of Montgomery Street.
However, that is not the only bowling green in the area. See below.
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Yvonne Cain wrote:
Two Bowling Greens
"There were two bowling greens in Montgomery
Street. My dad went to both to play cards. He played whist
and the game where
you use a peg-board. That sounds like
Cribbage - Peter Stubbs)
a) There was a public bowling green
next
to the children's play ground
. (That's the
one in the photo above.)
b) There was another bowling green, belonging to a
club. It was surrounded by tenements.
It was in Wellington Street. If I remember, you would walk past
it and not notice it. You got into it by a metal green door.
I think the door was in Montgomery Street."
Yvonne Cain (nee Dorr), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia:
September 28, 2007 |
'Hidden Bowling Green' in the tenements between
Montgomery St and London Rd
This view looks to the east. Elgin Street
is on the extreme left. London Road Gardens are on the right
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Reproduced with acknowledgement to
the Royal Commission on Ancient & Historical Monuments of
Scotland (RCAHMS)
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Answer
2.
Kim Traynor
Tollcross, Edinburgh |
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Thank you to Kim Traynor for finding a photograph above of the 'hidden
bowling green' mentioned by Yvonne Cain, and to RCAHMS for allowing me to
reproduce the photo.
Kim wrote
Hidden
Bowling Green
"I was rather mystified to read about the
second
bowling green, near Montgommery Street. But here is an aerial photo
of it.
How sneaky is that?"
Kim Traynor, Tollcross, Edinburgh:
December 7, 2009
Photo above added to EdinPhoto web site April 6, 2010 |
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Answer
3.
Douglas Bryce
Pilton, Edinburgh |
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Thank you to Douglas Bryce who wrote
Hidden
Bowling Green
"The hidden bowling club is Hillside BC.
You can get into it from London Road."
Douglas Bryce, Pilton, Edinburgh: April
8, 2010 |
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Thanks Douglas. I've
now found the entrance in London Road, at 9a Brunton Place,, and taken a
few close-up photos of the bowling green.
Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh: May 18, 2010
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