Horse and Dust Cart

Corporation Ash Depot, Gorgie

Around 1945

 Horse and Dust Cart - on the site that later became Gorgie Farm  -  Photo taken around 1945

©  Reproduced with acknowledgement to Neil Lawrence, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh

 

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   The Pringles in their carriage, possibly at Marchmont or Bruntsfield ©

 

Horse and Dust Cart

Corporation Ash Depot, Gorgie

Thank you to Neil Lawrence, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh

Neil wrote:

Corporation Ash Depot

"Here is a photo taken at the Corporation Ash Depot. where ashes from everybody’s fires were loaded onto waiting railway wagons.

The Pringles in their carriage, possibly at Marchmont or Bruntsfield ©

The roadways were ramped to allow carts to dump waste ash straight into open topped wagons."

Accident

"My wife’s Grandad, Robert Porteous, worked there until the 1940s.  He is in this photo, holding one of his work horses with its flags and horse brasses.  The photo may have been taken as part of the celebration of the end of he war in 1945.

Robert was killed after being kicked in the head by the horse in 1946.  He was survived by his 5 children and beloved wife Alison Melville Porteous who died in 1994.  My wife shares her name."

The Photo

"This land was later used as a Police Box Dump, and is now 'Gorgie Farm'.  The cottages in the foreground are demolished now.  I remember playing in their ruins in the 1970s.

The tenements in the background are the current tenements in Newton Street, just off Gorgie Road."

Neil Lawrence, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh:  October 13, 2010

Thank you to Neil Lawrence for telling me about when he used to play on this site in 1976/77.  At that time, the site was a 'Police Box Dump'

 

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