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Brunswick Street
Hillside, Edinburgh
The corner of Brunswick Place
(Leith Walk) and Brunswick Street |
View to the south, from Leith Walk
towards Hillside Crescent - August 2007
© peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk
Photograph taken August 23, 2007
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Photograph 2007 |
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Pavement Cafes
As recently as the
1980s there were very few pavement cafes in Edinburgh. Now
there are many in the centre of the city, and others elsewhere in
the city. Here is one, about half a mile NE of the East End
of Princes Street.
This view was taken from the top of an open-top bus travelling
up Leith Walk. |
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Recollections 1
Yvonne Cain
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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Thank you to Yvonne Cain, now living in Australia, who wrote:
1950s
"I used to work in the café next door
to the outdoor eating. It was a little café. I can't
remember who owned it.
The
red shop on the other side of the road red shop used to be a
grocery. You got broken biscuits and cheese. The owner
cut it with a cheese knife and you got some to taste - and
they did butter in pats.
All
the stuff you bought was wrapped in heavy brown paper.
That
would have been about 50 years ago. Memories! You remember
when you see things."
Yvonne Cain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia:
September 12, 2007 |
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Recollections 2
David Robertson
Port Macquarie, New South Wales,
Australia |
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Within a few hours of adding Yvonne Cain's note
(above) to the web site, I received
another message from Australia.
David Robertson wrote
Cafe
"In response to Yvonne Cain's
recollection of Brunswick Street cafe, if my memory serves me
right, the cafe was originally owned by Mr Pompa who lived in
McDonald Road, who then sold it to Thomaso Crolla who returned to
Italy and left the cafe to his brother Alberto who is the current
owner."
Grocer
"The red shop on the corner, now
Oddbins, was in my time, about 47 years ago, Whitelaws, a
specialist grocers.
The
shop that dispensed the broken biscuits was in fact Smiths,
another grocer. It was located in Elm Row next to
Whitelaws."
David Robertson,
Port Macquarie, New South Wales,
Australia: September 15, 2007 |
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