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Recollections
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Recollections by Pauline Bonilla
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Thank you to Pauline Bonilla formerly Pauline Macgregor now living
in the USA, for sending me the following memories of Craigmillar.
Pauline is hoping to make contact with some of the people she grew up
with in Craigmillar, including the girl that used to live around the
corner from the launderette.
If you remember Pauline Macgregor and would like to contact her again,
please
e-mail me and I will pass on your message to her.
Thank you. - Peter Stubbs
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Updates
I received messages from
Keith Manson, Niddrie (May 2007) and Pat Froy (March 17, 2008) both
wishing to contact Pauline. I've passed the messages on to Pauline.
Pauline emailed me on March 18, 2008 to tell me that she had
"finally found the lassie that lived around the corner from the
Launderette".
Incidentally, after lying empty for a long time, the launderette at the
corner of Wauchope Crescent and Wauchope Avenue was finally demolished on
March 8, 2008. There are now only three of the old blocks of housing
still standing in Craigmillar, all unoccupied.
- Peter Stubbs: March 18, 2008 |
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Pauline Bonilla wrote:
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Harewood Road
"I was brought up in 5/3 Harewood Road from
around 1975, and moved to Peffermill Road around 1985 when I was in
primary 7.
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Bingo
"Seeing these pictures brings back so many
memories. The County was a Bingo place when I was growing up. We all
use to hang around the Bingo and that and the chippy."
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Launderette
"I use to muck about with a lassie that lived
around the corner from the launderette."
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Harewood Crescent
"Do you by any chance have pictures of the
houses on Harewood Crescent? I know the house are gone now, but this
is where my Mum lived last before she died.
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The Whitehouse
""The Whitehouse' is or was a pub that my Mum
use to drink in along with the Tavern, they were owned by the same people,
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Shops
"Your pictures of shops
[I'm not sure which picture!] show what used to be
the chippy and the shop an number 21 where I use to buy cider from
and drink and smoke in that stair. One of my boy friends lived above
the shop in number 21.
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Move to USA
"I moved to the US in 89 and lost touch with
almost all my friends, my Mum is dead now so I do not get home often BUT
these pictures are precious to me."
"I saw the picture of Prestonfield House on
your web site:.
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I used to work there, and that is how I came
to America. I was a chamber maid and met Americans that wanted my
friend to come over for three months. She did not want to go so I
thought 'What the hell, why not!' So I did, and have been here for almost
18 years. My brother was a kitchen porter and eventually became a chef
and then turned into an Executive Chef."
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Pauline Bonilla, USA: September 7, 11, 12, 19, 2006 |
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Recollections
2.
Recollections by Iain
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Thank you to Iain who replied to Pauline's comments
above.
Iain wrote:
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Wauchope Crescent
"Pauline is hoping to make contact with some
of the people she grew up with in Craigmillar, including the girl that
used to live around the corner from the launderette.
My names Iain. I was
born in the 1970s and lived at Wauchope
Crescent , Craigmillar.
I cant remember what the number of stair was,
but it was next to the back of the cinema."
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Cinema
"I remember it being
a cinema before I moved away.
I used to sneak into it,
as there was a small door at the back, haha,"
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Launderette
"There was a
launderette on the corner, and before that
there was a grocery shop named
Frazer's,
owned by an
English man, about
45-50 yr old
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Sisters
"I had 3 sisters,
Anne-Marie, Lorna and Donna, They stayed with my mum and dad.
I was the third oldest, and the only brother.
I was brought up there
until the house went on fire. We were at the top of the stairs and
there was a man and woman who stayed on the
bottom floor with a three-legged dog.
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Teresa Clooney
"My mum also had a
friend next door called Isabell
Clooney and she had a daughter named
Teresa. I remember calling her aunty
Isabell but found out after a few years
that it was my mums best friend.
I am looking for
Teresa Clooney Clooney
as she holds something I was always dreamed of."
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Memories
"Ahhh,
Craigmillar, eh! I didn't think it would change.
I remember:
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the painting of Craigmillar School in our dining room
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the mermaid that was built one
summer at Bingham tunnel.
- The chip shop at
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Recollections
3.
Recollections by
Liz Campbell
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Thank you to
Liz Campbell, who was born in Leith, then lived in
Niddrie from 1962 to 1988, who wrote:
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Memories
"So many memories:
- The
County Cinema.
- The
launderette,.
- The White House.
My grandad lived in
Wauchope Avenue, straight across from the
County. We lived in Wauchope Place.
To see all the places like:
- the
Venchie: I spent loads of time there
- Sandy's Club
- my old
primary school: the only thing still
standing
how sad, its
all gone now.
It brings back so many memories of great times
and even greater friends, spending all our time
in the back greens playing rounders and kick-the-can.
It was just the best
place ever. Sadly we all grew up moved away and
lost touch."
Liz Campbell, Manchester, Lancashire,
England: November 16, 2008
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Harewood Road
The houses in Harewood Road
have all now been demolished, but the former Craigmillar Primary School in
Harewood Road is still standing.
The owners of the building,
Lothian Housing Association, have obtained money to redevelop it as a
centre of excellence for the arts and social enterprise organizations.
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Harewood
Crescent
Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of the houses in Harewood
Crescent. The houses were demolished before I started photographing
the area. This street now seems to be used mainly by learner
drivers, under instruction.
Perhaps somebody else will have a photograph of the houses that they
can send to me for the web site.
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Peter Stubbs:
September 10, 2006. |
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Wauchope Crescent
All the
houses in and around Wauchope Crescent, except for one house in the
crescent, are now empty. The residents have moved out. Demolition
began in late 2006 .
The cinema
went long ago. The empty launderette is still standing, at February
2007, but probably for not much longer.
- Peter Stubbs: February 4, 2007 |
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Wauchope Crescent
The old
launderette at the corner of Wauchope Crescent and Wauchope Avenue was
finally demolished on March 8, 2008. The last of the houses in Wauchope Crescent
were demolished on March 10, 2008.
There are now only three of
the old blocks of housing still standing in Craigmillar, all unoccupied.
- Peter Stubbs: March 18, 2008 |
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