Around Edinburgh - Cambusnethan Street, Abbeyhill

Recollections

Richard Keltie

Glasgow

Thank you to Richard Keltie, Glasgow, for allowing me to reproduce this postcard of Cambusnethan Street.

Richard wrote:

Cambusnethan Street

"In my mother's house, I recently came across this postcard of Cambusnethan Street, Abbeyhill, Edinburgh where my mother, her two sisters and their parents lived at one time.

The postcard was posted on 17 July 1961. The reverse has 'The Milton Post Card'."

Richard Keltie, Glasgow, Scotland: June 15, 2008.

Recollections

Richard Keltie

Glasgow

Richard added:

Cambusnethan Street

"My childhood memories of Cambusnethan Street are that:

- there was a St Cuthbert's Co-op shop at the London Road end of the street.

- at the Marionville Road end of the Street - or perhaps more correctly just round the corner on Marionville Road itself - was Yardley's dairy where I would be sent to buy 'half a dozen well-fired rolls.'

- opposite Yardley's, at the corner of Dalgety Avenue and Marionville Road, was the 'Speedway Arms' pub.

When the Commonwealth Games came to Edinburgh in 1970, the pub was re-named the 'Hop, Step and Jump'."

Richard Keltie, Glasgow, Scotland: June 20, 2008.