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Old houses at Echo Bank
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permission to reproduce, please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk
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Old Engraving |
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Echo Bank, Newington I
have not found any reference to Echo Bank in recent books.
However, Cassell's Old & New Edinburgh by James Grant,
published c.1890, from which the engraving
above is taken, describes Echo Bank as being
about 1/3 mile NW of Cameron Toll.
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Location
Here are some extracts from Old & New Edinburgh:
"The year 1800 saw the whole locality
[Newington] open and arable fields,
save where stood the old houses of Mayfield at the Mayfield Loan,
a few cottages at Echo Bank, ant others at Powburn."
[Old & New Edinburgh, Vol 3: p.50]
"Proceeding along the old Dalkeith Road, near Echo Bank, a
gate and handsome lodge lead to Newington Cemetery, with a terrace
and line of vaults."
[Old & New Edinburgh, Vol 3Vol 3:
p.57] |
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Reply
1.
Archie Young
Moredun, Edinburgh |
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Echo Bank
"Echo Bank village, shown in this old
engraving, was situated opposite where the gates of Newington
Cemetery are and to the left.
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The village is shown on the 1852 map
below.
The
Google photo below
shows what is at this location today
My friend's old mother was born at
Echo Bank."
Archie Young, Moredun, Edinburgh: August 24,
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1852 Map
Echo Bank Cottages, Newington
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Reproduced with acknowledgement to Archie Young, Moredun,
Edinburgh
Google Earth
Site of the former Echo Bank Cottages,
Newington
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Reproduced with acknowledgement to Archie Young, Moredun,
Edinburgh
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Reply
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Alan Wilson
Trinity, Edinburgh |
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Newington Cemetery
"I now know why Newington Cemetery was
previously known as Echobank Cemetery.
I was there a
few years ago making a photographic record of the Jewish Section
which is on your left as you go through the gates.
Last
time I was there I noticed that it had deteriorated even further"
Alan Wilson, Trinity, Edinburgh: August 29,
2011 |
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Reply
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Archie Young
Moredun, Edinburgh |
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Thank you to Archie Young for writing
again.
Archie wrote: |
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The Village
"Here is a photo I had of Echo
Bank at Newington. The village started to diminish in
1860 which was a shame. It seems to have given way to the
money class so that they could build their grand houses of the
time."
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The Erskine Family
"I
have no idea who took the photo but I believe that it came from
the family collection of a grand old lady, Mrs. Erskine, and that
it was taken by a family member. Mrs Erskine was born at
Echo Bank and who owned it.
The child in the doorway in this photo
was Mrs Erskine's grandmother, and the man with the cart was also
one of the Erskine family.
The Erskine family were
famous Carters."
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Move to Gilmerton
"When Echo Bank was more or less
raised to the ground,
the family moved up to Gilmerton,
where they had a piece of ground at Ravenscroft Place.
There, they were the second Carters in
the area, the others were the Innes family who built the terraced
houses on the the right-hand side of Drum Street heading towards
Dalkeith."
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Archie Young, Moredun, Edinburgh: September
7+12,
2011 |
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Reply
4.
David Bain
Rotherham, South Yorkshire,
England |
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Thank you to David Bain who wrote:
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Great Grandparents
"My great grandparents lived at
Echo Bank before moving to Kingston Avenue, but as I remember the
census pages don't have house numbers on them so I can't say which
house they may have occupied."
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The Innes and
Erskine Families
"The Innes and the Erskine
families were still coal merchants and haulage contractors in
Gilmerton when I lived there, around 1958 to-1979."
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David Bain, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England:
September 20, 2011
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