Recollections

of

Edinburgh
and other parts of Scotland

Please select from the list below

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1.   Edinburgh - Central

2.   Edinburgh - East

3.   Edinburgh - North

4.   Edinburgh - West

5.   Edinburgh - South

6.   Edinburgh - by the Water of Leith

7.   Leith

8.   Newhaven

9.   Around Edinburgh

10.   Edinburgh Entertainment + Hobbies

11.   Edinburgh Schools

12.   Edinburgh Transport

13.   Edinburgh at War

14.   Edinburgh at Work

15.   Scotland

Please e-mail me if you have any recollections or old photos
 that you would like me to add  to this web site.    Thank you.

1.

Old Town

-  Bannerman's Bar

-  Barron's Rag Merchants

-  Buccleuch Street

-  Castlehill

-  Castlehill Primary School

-  Canongate

-  Central Garage  Annandale Street

-  Chambers Street

-  Cowgate  -  1960s

-  Cowgate area

-  Croft-an-Righ

-  Crosscauseway

-  Drummond Street

-  Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street  coal lorry

-  Dumbiedykes - Houses and Streets  1950/1960s

-  Dumbiedykes - Factories and Shops  1950s

-  Dumbiedykes - Penny Tenement  1950s

-  Dumbiedykes - People and Play  1940-1960s

-  Dumbiedykes - People and Play  1940-1960s: page 2

-  Dumbiedykes - St Leonard's  1950s

-  Dumbiedykes - Searching for People

 - Dumbiedykes - Streets  A-G

-  Dumbiedykes - Streets  H-R

-  Dumbiedykes - Streets  S-Z

-  Dumbiedykes - 'The Embers'

-  Dumbiedykes - Tusi's ice cream shop

-  East Preston Street  chimney sweeps

-  Edinburgh Castle

-  Fleshmarket Close

-  Fountainbridge  Early recollections

-  Fountainbridge  from 1940s

-  The Grapes

-  The Grassmarket

-  High School Yards

-  High Street

-  Holyrood Palace

-  Holyrood Park

-  James Clark School

-  James Wood  hairdresser

-  Jeannie Deans' Cottage

-  Jeannie Veitch's  sweetie shop

-  Moubray House

-  Nicolson Street

-  Old Town Closes

-  Pleasance

-  Pleasance  back greens

-  Rutherford's Lounge Bar

-  St Ann's School

-  St John's Hill  recollections

-  St Mary's Street

-  St Patrick's Church

-  Searching for Poeple

-  South Clerk Street

-  South Side

-  South Side  Fringe Plays

-  Stewart's Bar

-  Tollcross

-  Assembly Room Concerts

-  Atholl Crescent

-  Blenheim Place

-  Edinburgh  1950s

-  Floral Clock

-  Gladstone Monument

-  Great King Street

-  Jerome's Studio

-  Leith Street

-  Lothian Road

-  Picardy Place

-  Princes Street

-  Rose Street

-  Ross Bandstand

-  St Andrew Square  'The American Hut''

-  Sinclair Fountain

-  Waverley Market

-  Shops  Central Edinburgh and districts

2.

-  Abbeyhill

-  Bingham

-  Cambusnethan Street

-  Coillesdene House Joppa

-  Craigentinny  1940s

-  Craigmillar  1940s-50s

-  Craigmillar  1960s-70s

-  Craigmillar  1970s-80s

-  Craigmillar Castle

-  Craigmillar Castle Terrace  1960

-  Duddingston

-  Duddingston Camp  1951

-  East Thomas Street  1930s-60s

-  East Thomas Street  neighbours

-  East William Street

-  Fisherrow Harbour

-  Greendykes

-  Joppa

-  Lochend and Easter Road

-  Niddrie  1930s+1940s

-  Niddrie  1950s+1960s

-  Niddrie Mill

-  Piershill

-  Pilrig  1950s

-  Portobello  early 1900s

-  Portobello  1930s-50s

-  Portobello  from 1950s

-  Portobello Hotels early 1900s

-  Restalrig

3.

Edinburgh  -  North

-  Boswall + Granton + Trinity + Wardie  -  1940s

-  Boswall + Granton + Trinity + Wardie - 1950s to 1960s

-  Comely Bank  1930s to 1980s

-  Comely Bank  Moir & Baxter's Garage

-  Craighall

-  Cramond  1940s

-  Cramond Island  1970s

-  Granton   1930s

-  Granton, Boswall, Royston  since 1940s

-  Granton  1950s

-  Granton 1950s to 1970s

-  Granton  1970s and 2000s

-  Granton Harbour  then to Sea  1940s

-  Granton Harbour  T L Devlin, trawler owners

-  Granton Harbour  Brown, Blacksmith, WW1

-  Granton Harbour  esparto grass 1940s/50s

-  Granton Harbour  around 1960

-  Granton Harbour  1950s to 1970s

-  Granton House  to  Fire  1954

-  Granton Ice Works  1950s-1970s

-  Granton Railway  1960s to 1980s

-  Leith Walk

-  Leith Walk Cafe

-  Lochinvar Camp 1940s + 50s

-  Lomond Park

-  Newhaven

-  Old Chain Pier

-  Pennywell  1940s

-  Pilton

-  Pilton   1940 bomb

-  Royal Botanic Garden question

-  Royston   1930s

-  Royston  1940s

-  Royston Beach  1970s

-  Royston Beach  1970s

-  Starbank Inn  1970s

-  Wardie Residents' Club   from 1940s

-  Wardie School  1930s

-  Wardie School  1940s

-  Wardie School  1950s

-  Wardie School and Playgroup  1960s

-  Wardie School  1970s

-  Wardie School  1980s

-  West Granton:  Gypsy Brae  1950s

4.

-  Corstorphine

-  Dalry

-  Edinburgh Zoo

-  Gorgie

-  Gorgie and Chesser

-  Gorgie Station

-  Merchiston

-  Murrayfield

-  Hutchison and Chesser

5.

-  Bruntsfield

-  Craiglockhart Military Hospital

-  Gilmerton

-  Gladstone Terrace

-  Happy Valley

-  Liberton

-  Peffermill and Prestonfield

-  St Leonard's

6.

Edinburgh  -  By the Water of Leith

-  Beaverbank industries  - 1940s

-  Bellevue

-  Bellevue - milk deliveries

-  Bonnington - filming

-  Broughton

-  Broughton - streets & houses

-  Broughton - buses

-  Canonmills - 1940s

-  Canonmills - 1950s

-  Colinton - from 1940s

-  Craiglockhart Dell

-  Craiglockhart Military Hospital

-  Gorgie Road

-  Juniper Green

-  Longstone

-  Merchiston

-  Powderhall

-  Slateford

-  Stockbridge

-  Warriston

7.

Leith

-  Bonnington Bond

-  Christening Pieces

-  Capitol Picture House

-  Cooperage

-  Demarco's Ice Cream

-  Drinking in Leith

-  D K school  1950s

-  Dr Bell's school  1940s

-  First trip to sea

-  Houses in Leith and elsewhere

-  Leith Docks  1930s-60s

-  Leith Houses

-  Leith Milk Deliveries

-  Leith  mini-Blitz

-  Leith Nautical College

-  Leith  -  Our Old Radio

-  Leith Pageant  1964

-  Leith Police

-  Leith Shipping

-  Leith Tattoo Parlour

-  Leith Walk

-  Leith Wild Cat

-  Pilrig  1950s-60s

-  The Shore

-  Union Street  1940s

-  Whaling from Leith  ancestors

-  Wild Cat

-  Winter of 1947

8.

-  Newhaven   -  1970s and 2000s

-  Newhaven  -  Annfield

-  Newhaven  -  Coach Outing

-  Newhaven  -  Fishwives

-  Newhaven  -  Old Chain Pier and Harbour

-  Newhaven  -  Pageant  1953

-  Newhaven  -  Peacock Inn

9.

Central

-  Goldbergs Department Store

-  Hospitals

Suburbs

-  Baberton House

-  Bonnington

-  Davidson's Mains

-  Glenburn Hotel

-  Gorgie

-  Fountainbridge

-  Hailes Quarry

-  Joppa

-  Liberton Brae

-  Portobello

-  Saughton

-  Seafield

Midlothian

-  Milton Bridge

-  Polton Farm

-  Rosewell

Fife

-  Kinghorn

 10.

-  The Astoria  Corstorphine cinema

-  Ballroom Dancing Classes

-  Beehive Inn Restaurant

-  Beverley / Blue Halls Cinema

-  Capitol Picture House  Leith

-  Cinemas  Edinburgh

-  Clubs and Discos

-  Collecting Football Cards

-  Cycling

-  Dance Bands

-  Dance Halls

-  The Embers  Dumbiedykes

-  Empire Theatre

-  Edinburgh Aero Club

-  Gonk Club  Tollcross

-  Johnny and the Falcons  Dumbiedykes

-  The Jokers

-  Lascala Cinema

-  Murrayfield Ice Rink

-  New Palais -  later McGoo's

-  New Town Clubs

-  New Victoria Cinema

-  Observatory

-  Palais de Dance

-  Radio Programmes

-  Pantomime

-  Palladium  East Fountainbridge

-  Portobello Marine Gardens

-  Sparta Amateur Boxing Club

-  Street Entertainment

-  Swimming Baths

11.

Schools

-  Balgreen School Class  1936-37

-  Bellevue School  1946-50l

-  Broughton School

-  Boroughmuir School  1950s to 1980s

-  Burdiehouse School

-  Castle Hill Primary School

-  Corstorphine School Class  1938

-  Couper Street School, Leith

-  Craiglockhart Primary School since 1940s

-  Dr Bell's School  around 1920

-  Darroch School

-  David Kilpatrick school, Leith - 1950s

-  Donaldson's College

-  Dean Orphanage

-  Dr Bell's school   1940s

-  Granton School   1940s + 1950

-  Granton School   1962

-  James Clark School  1961

-  James Clark School

-  John Watson School  Sports Day 1965

-  Leith Academy  1952, class 3C2

-  Leith Walk Primary School  1947

-  Leith Walk Primary School  1957

-  Lorne Street School

-  Milton House Primary School  1960s

-  Murrayburn School

-  Niddrie Marischal School

-  North Merchiston School  1938-39

-  North Merchiston School  around 1940

-  Norton Park Secondary School  1960

-  Peffermill Tin School

-  Portobello School  around 1925

-  Preston Street School  around 1950-51 

-  Preston Street School around 1952

-  Royston School  1939-46

-  Royston School  class photo, 1946

-  St Ann's School

-  St Hilda's School

-  St Margaret's Convent

-  St Pat's School

-  South Bridge School

-  Tollcross Primary School  early 1950s

-  Tollcross Primary School - visit 1985

-  Towerbank School netball team  1948

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