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Where is it?

 and When?

Please e-mail me

 if you can identify any of these locations or people,
or when the photos might have been taken.

Thank you.    -  Peter Stubbs

A  Glass Plates and Large Format Negatives

B  Boys' Brigade Photographs

C  Railway Photographs

D  Tram and Bus Photographs

E  Other Transport

F  Winter

G  People

H  Places

 

A

Glass Plates and Large Format Negatives
1

Where is it? - Picture 1 ©

QUESTION:

Is this shelter in Whim Road, at the top of Gullane Hill.

2003

   Where is it? - No 1 - a recent digital photograph ©

ANSWER:

Apparently not.  Here is a digital photo of the Whim Road shelter taken in 2003.

The shelter in the earlier photo appears to be taller.

Thanks to William Crossan
 and Colin Sinclair.
2

Where is it - Picture 2 ©

QUESTION:

Is this shelter in Whim Road, at the top of Gullane Hill.

2003

   Where is it? - No 2 - A recent digital photograph ©

ANSWER:

Yes.  Here is a recent digital photo of the same building taken in 2003

Thanks to William Crossan
 and Colin Sinclair.
3

Where is it? - Picture 3 ©

QUESTION:

Where is this?

ANSWER:

Don't know.
4

Where is it? - Picture 4 ©

QUESTION:

Where is this?

ANSWER:

Don't know.
5

St Leonard's District - 1920s ©

QUESTION:

Where were this photo and others from the same collection, taken?

I found the locations for 10  of the 23 photos  in this collection.

All are:

-  East Crosscauseway

-  Gibb's Entry

-  Pleasance

-  Simon Square

-  South Richmond Street

I look forward to seeing how many more photos other people can identify.

Please click on this thumbnail image above to see all the photos not yet identified.

ANSWERS:

Locations

Now, (August 5, 2008) the locations of 21 of the 23 photos  have been identified.

They are views of:

-  Between St Patrick Street and Cowan's Close

-  Cowan's Close

-  Dumbiedykes Road

-  East Crosscauseway

-  Hardwell Close

-  Richmond Lane

-  Simon Square

-  South Richmond Street

Dates

Dates have been found for two of the photos:  They are:

- Photo 8:   Early-November 1927
- Photo 12:  August 31, 1927

Thanks to:

Bryan Gourlay
Phil Wilson
Bob Henderson
John Hadden
Lyndsay Montgomery
Neil Lawrence
David Curran

Images 1-5 above are from a collection of glass negatives that were found recently [2004].  Some of the negatives show groups of girls around Randolph Square and Randolph Gardens, Edinburgh.

Images in 5 above come from a collection of whole-plate negatives and glass plates, all probably taken around the 1920s.

 

B

Boys' Brigade Photographs

1

Around Edinburgh - 49th Edinburgh Boys' Brigade Company , 1905-06 - Where was this photograph taken? ©

49th Edinburgh Boys' Brigade

1905-1906

QUESTION:

Where is this?

ANSWER

Don't know.

Several people have suggested:

Royal Botanic Gardens

but I believe it is elsewhere.

2

Around Edinburgh 49th Edinburgh Boys' Brigade photograph - Where was this photogarph taken? ©

49th Edinburgh Boys' Brigade

1907

QUESTION:

Where is this?

ANSWER

Abbeymount

Thanks to Phil Wilson

This images above are from an interesting collection of old prints of Edinburgh provided recently [2004] by Phil Wilson of Edinburgh, now living in Aberdeen.

 

C

Railway Photographs
1

National Coal Board loco No 13 and three railway workers ©

Coal Board Locomotive No 13.

Where?  When?

ANSWER

Woodburn Junction

Between 1950 and 1957

Thanks to Patrick Hutton
2

A railway worker stands beside the track as a train passes heading towards a signal box. Where is it? ©

Where was this railway photo
 taken in the 1950s?

ANSWER

Don't know.

Thornton South, Fife
 was suggested but it now seems more likely to be somewhere south of the Forth - possibly between
West Calder and Addiewell

Thanks to:

Walter Anderson
Patrick Hutton
Francis A Dalrymple Hamilton
David Briggs
Grahame Hood
3

Ten railway cleaners - Photograph probably taken in the 1950s ©

Where were these railway cleaners photographed?

ANSWER

 Craigentinny

Thanks to Sandy Maclean

The railway photographs above were provided by Archie Foley of Portobello.  Archie has acquired collection of old negatives of railway and travel negatives and is attempting to trace the photographer.
5

An Accident, possibly in Edinburgh - Where is it? ©

Where and when was this accident?

ANSWER

Smeaton Colliery, Dalkeith

Thanks to:

John Stevenson
John Hadden
Douglas Beath
Roger Cook
Malcolm Paul
Christopher Hogan
Patrick Hutton
Rodney Marshall
6

Where is it - Photograph of a railway line and a pram. Possibly Newhaven or Granton ©

Where was this photograph
taken on Victoria Day 1948?

ANSWER

Granton Middle Pier

Thanks to:

Patrick Hutton
Walter Lyle Hume
Ian McInnes
7

This photograph was taken at Edinburgh's Waverley Station, but what was the occasion? ©

This photograph was taken at Edinburgh's Waverley Station, but what was the occasion? ©

This photograph was taken at Edinburgh's Waverley Station,
but what was the occasion?

ANSWER

Probably a troop train
 in the mid-1930s

Thanks to:

John Hadden
Patrick Hutton
Douglas Beath
Andrew Daniel
Simon Batchelor
Alan MacFarland
8

Where is it - Photograph of a railway line and a pram. Possibly Newhaven or Granton ©

'Hal o' the Wynd'  Where?

ANSWER

Possibly late 1940s.
Eastfield, Glasgow

Thanks to:

Patrick Hutton
Steve Chalmers
9

Edinburgh - Railways and Industry - The back of Shrubhill ©

Railways and industry  Where?

ANSWER

  Shrubhill

Thanks to Patrick Hutton
10

An Accident, possibly in Edinburgh - Where is it? ©

Is this Leith?

ANSWER

No.  It's Tayport, Fife, Scotland.

Thanks to:

Walter Lyle Hume
Patrick Hutton
Phil Wilson
Richard Hollingworth
Ian Lindsay

11

Postcard by an unknown publisher - Possibly Joppa Signal Box ©

Is this Joppa Signal Box?

ANSWER

No.  It's Portobello East.

Thanks to:

Alan Grieve
Ian Young

 

D

Tram and Bus Photographs
1

   Roadworks - Laying or removingTramwayTracks - Where? When? ©

Roadworks  -  1

 ANSWER

Corstorphine Road

Thanks to:

Billy McDonald
 Douglas Beath
2

   Roadworks - Laying or removing tramway - Where? When?  ©

Roadworks  -  2

 ANSWER

Slateford Road.

Thanks to Douglas Beath
3

Roadworks - Removing Tramway Track - Where? When? ©

Roadworks -  3

 ANSWER

Slateford Road.

Thanks to:

Douglas Beath
Sheila Veitch
4

Roadworks - Removing the Tramway Tracks - Where and when? ©

Roadworks  -  4

 ANSWER

Slateford Road.

Thanks to:

Douglas Beath
Sheila Veitch
5

A yard full of Edinburgh's buses. Does anybody know the location or when the photograph was taken? ©

Bus Depot - outside

 ANSWER

Gorgie Depot

Thanks to Amanda Melrose
6

Char-a-Bancs on 22 May 1922 - Where are they? ©

Where is it?  And when?

ANSWER

Outing from Edinburgh at Perth Railway Station, 1923

Thank you to Neil Lawrence
7

  Char-a-Bancs at Princes Street - 22 May 1922 ©

When was this photo taken

ANSWER

Charabancs in Castle Terrace

Probably around 1926-7
8

Routes 26 and 44 - Terminus - possibly at Eastfield, Joppa ©

Where and when was the photo taken?

Is this Eastfield Terminus?

ANSWER

Yes, Eastfield
Around early-1970

Thanks to:

-  Archie Foley
-  Patrick Hutton
-  Mike Gradone
-  John Hadden
-  Donald Grant
-  Steven Oliver
-  Michael Thompson
-  Denis Kelly
9

Edinburgh City Transport - Parcels Depot - Where? ©

Parcels Depot - Where was it?

ANSWER

Shrubhill Works

Thanks to:

-  Douglas Beath
-  Donald Grant
10 Two Edinburgh single decker buses. Where and when was this poto taken? ©

Two single decker buses.

Where and when?

ANSWER

Aug 3, 1961

Shrubhill

Thanks to:

-  Duncan MacAuslan
-  John J Hadden
-  Helen Skedd
-  Scott Birrell
11

Trams and crowds in Princes Street. When was this photograph taken and what was the occasion? ©

Princes Street Procession

What was the occasion? - and when?

ANSWER

Don't know.
12

Edinburgh Cable Car - when and where? ©

Edinburgh Cable Car

When and where?

ANSWER

Early-1900s

Tollcross

Thanks to:

-  Duncan MacAuslan
-  John J Hadden
-  Donald Grant
-  Neil Lawrence
-  Terry Cox

 

E

Other Transport
1

Trawler - 1. Where is it? - possibly Granton Middle Pier. 2. When was the photograph taken ©

Trawler
 What trawler is this?  Where is it?

ANSWER

Don't know.
2

Old Car parked outsideThe St Stephen's Motor & Cycle Depot, 10 Hamilton Place, Stockbridge ©

Car
 What make of car is this?

ANSWER

'Straker Squire'

Thanks to:

Bryan Gourlay
-John Hadden
Douglas Glass
Engel Nelson
Mike Budd
3

Robert Devlin in the driving seat of his father's Daimler ©

Daimler

Where is this car?

ANSWER

Don't know.
4

Lorries taking esparto grass from Granton to the paper mills around Edinburgh in the 1940s/50s ©

Transporting Esparto Grass

This photo of esparto grass being transported, probably  from Granton Harbour to one of the paper mills, was taken around the 1950s.  Where was it taken?

ANSWER

Don't know.
5

Lorry carrying esparto grass - where is it? ©

Transporting Esparto Grass

This photo of esparto grass being transported, probably  from Granton Harbour to one of the paper mills, was taken around the 1950s.  Where was it taken?

ANSWER

Don't know.
6

Photograph from the family of Horatio Ross - Horse and cart, somewhere in the Scottish Highlands ©

Horse and Cart

This is a photograph from the collection of the family of Horatio Ross.  Where and when was this photo taken?

ANSWER

'Braelangwell Distillery,
Black Isle, Ross-shire,
 Scotland.'

Thanks to:

Jonathan Mitchell

 

F

Winter
1

Postcard - James Patrick - Castle Series - "A Merry Christmas" ©

Winter  -  Skating

Here is a photograph from a James Patrick postcard, titled "A Merry Christmas".  Where and when was it taken?

ANSWER

14th Fairway,
Braid Hills  No 1
Golf Course

Thanks to:

Andy Wanstall
2

Postcard - James Parick - Castle Series - "Cauld Blaws the Wind" ©

Winter  -  Horse and Cart

Here is another photograph from a James Patrick postcard titled: "Cauld blaws the wind".  Where and when was it taken?

ANSWER

It may be:

1.  Harlaw Road between the top of Kirkgate and Wester Kinleith Farm.

2.  on A702 south of the Pentlands, near Boghall.

3.  the road to Flotterstone, taken with your back to the hills, looking east out to the main road.

Thanks to:

John J Hadden
Jill Strobridge
Forbes Wilson
Bob Henderson
3

Postcard - James Patrick - Castle Series - "Winter Fairly" ©

Winter  -  Lone Figure

Here is a third photograph from a James Patrick postcard titled "Winter Fairly".  Where and when was it taken?

ANSWER

Don't know.
4

Photograph of an outdoor curling match - Where and when? ©

Winter  -  Curling

This photo of an outdoor curling match was found in an old photograph album.  Does anybody recognise the location?

ANSWER

Don't know.

 

G

People
1

A cabinet print by James Pike of a group of adults with a viaduct in the background ©

Outing

A group of adults on an outing

ANSWER

Don't know.
2

A cabinet print by James Pike of a group of children with a viaduct in the backgraound ©

Outing

A group of children on an outing

ANSWER

Don't know.
3

D & W Prophet - Cabinet Print - School Photograph ©

School

A school class, probably at Drummond Street School

ANSWER

Don't know.
4

Cabinet print of four men with clay pipes and drinks - J Greenfield ©

Group

Four men with clay pipes and drinks.

Where were they, and when?

ANSWER

Don't know.
5

Painting by William Crooke, 1890 - Run away horse and cart ©

Paintings

What is known of William Crooke's paintings?

ANSWER

Don't know.
6

A cabinet print by William Halkett, Portobello - Where was this photograph taken? ©

Cabinet Print

by William Halkett, Portobello

Where is it?

ANSWER

Don't know.
7

A portrait of three children from an Edinburgh family - boys or girls? - photographed when? ©

Early Photo

1. When was it taken?
2. Are they boys or girls?

ANSWER

Don't know.
8

A shooting competition, probably somewhere around Edinburgh. Where is it? ©

Shooting Competition

Somewhere near Edinburgh?  Where is it?

ANSWER

Don't know.
9

Photograph by an unidentified photographer of the Robertson Brothers ©

Robertson Brothers

Where and when was this photo taken?

ANSWER

Don't know.
10

A group of nine children at Dumbiedykes in the mid-1950s ©

Dumbiedykes Children

mid-1950s  -  where?

ANSWER

The corner of Dumbiedykes Road and Dumbiedykes Lane

Thanks to Jean Rae
11

A group of six children at Dumbiedykes in the mid-1950s