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Photograph of Fort Place
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Request 1
Ian Foster, formerly of Edinburgh and now living in Perth, Western
Australia, is carrying out family history research. He is
looking for a photograph of Fort Place, Leith, before it was demolished.
Ian Foster: June 6, 2005
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Request 2
Pauline Nyau is also looking for a photograph of Fort Place. Her
great-grandparents lived there before travelling to Kenya.
Pauline Nyau: February 28, 2006
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Request 3
Cathy Shanks (nee Catherine
MacLeod) who used to live in Forth Place is also looking for a photograph
of Forth Place.
Cathy Shanks:
August 3, 2006 |
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Request 4
Jim MacFarlane who used to
live in Forth Place and now lives in Estepona, Spain, is looking for a
photograph of Fort Place
Cathy Shanks:
August 3, 2006 |
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Can you help?
If you know of any photos of the area in Leith, please
e-mail me so that I can pass on details to those who have asked about
them.
Thank you. - Peter Stubbs
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Photograph of Fort Place
Answer
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Thank you to Jim Kennedy, who lived at 15 Fort Place, Leith during the
1940s and 1950s, for replying.
Jim wrote:
"Some photos of the Fort area of Leith can be
found on the web site:
www.scotsman.com"
Jim Kennedy: January 20, 2007 |
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Photograph of Fort Place
Answer
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Thank you to Kenneth Paterson for letting me know about this
photograph, looking up Fort Place, from the north end of the street, in
1959.
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Acknowledgement: Kenneth Paterson, Hawick, Borders,
Scotland: February 9, 2009 |
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Thank you also to to Jim Macfarlane for sending me this photograph of
himself and his brother in the entrance to No 4 Fort Place, and for also
sending his recollections of Fort Place
©
Acknowledgement: Jim Macfarlane: February 22,
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Recollections
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Andrew Shortel
Muirhouse, Edinburgh |
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Thank you to Andrew Shortel (b.1966) for his recollections of the
Fort area.
Andrew wrote:
Hawthornvale and Fort Place
"I have vivid memories of this area.
I remember:
- Celie Malcolm's newsagent shop.
I believe she is still around, at least in her 80s.
- The little-known film,
'Just Another Saturday', starring Billy Connolly, Eileen McCallum and
others.
It was filmed coming out of Hawthornvale where
I lived at the time, past Halfway House and around Fort Place."
Andrew Shortel: Muirhouse Edinburgh: April 20. 2006 |
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