Miller Homes

"In 1987, I handled the sale of the old family home, No 51, Bellevue.

It was "Old Miller" who "built" most of the tenement side of Bellevue Road.  His son Jimmie (later Sir James Miller, was the only person ever to become both Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Lord Mayor of London.

The Sail-Training Association boat, "Malcolm Miller", was named after his son."

Dairy Farm

"My great-grandfather Dow had the town-dairy farm at Broughton Point, the in-bye grazing being where the 1930s Miller houses are located in East Claremont St overlooking Broughton Road.

There was also grazing at Claremont Bank "behind" the TA Drill Hall; and there may have been more down Beaverbank at roughly where the old Duncan's Chocolate factory was later built.

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Somewhere I have a poor photo of a painting done from a postcard, of the farm house, looking from Broughton Road with the either the belfry of the Primary School or a vent on the old Patrick Thompson's Repository showing up."