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Recollections
Craigmillar
and
Niddrie
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1970s onwards
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Pauline BONILLA
nee MacGREGOR
USA |
- Harewood Road
- Bingo
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Launderette
- Harewood
Crescent
- The Whitehouse
- Shops
- Move to USA
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Iain |
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Wauchope Crescent
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Cinema
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Launderette
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Sisters
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Teresa Clooney
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Memories
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2007
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Liz CAMPBELL
Manchester, Lancashire,
England |
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Memories
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4. |
Ann VALENTINE
East Lothian, Scotland |
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Walls' Ice Cream Factory
Question
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5. |
Davy TURNER
Craigmillar |
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Walls' Ice Cream Factory
Answer 1
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6. |
Eric GOLD
East London, England |
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Walls' Ice Cream Factory
Answer 2
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7. |
Tony IVANOV
Bo'ness, West Lothian,
Scotland |
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Walls' Ice Cream Factory
Answer 3
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8. |
Jim CAIRNS
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland |
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Walls' Ice Cream Factory
Answer
4
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9. |
Ian BIRKS |
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Family
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Schools and Play
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Today
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10. |
Alec GALLACHER |
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Walls' Ice Cream Factory
Answer 5
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11. |
Terry
McGUIRE
Coventry, Warwickshire, England |
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Walls' Ice Cream Factory
Answer 6
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Recollections
1.
Recollections by Pauline Bonilla
USA |
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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
the bottom of Hay Drive. |
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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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Recollections
4.
Ann Valentine
East Lothian, Scotland |
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Ann Valentine asked: |
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Questions
Walls' Ice Cream Factory
"Does anyone remember the
Walls' Ice Cream factory at Craigmillar?
Where was it, and when did
it close?"
Ann Valentine, East Lothian, Scotland:
June 8, 2010 |
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Reply to Ann
If you know
the answer to the questions that Ann asks,
please email me, then I'll pass on your message to her. Thank
you.
Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh: June 12, 2010 |
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Recollections
5.
Davy Turner
Craigmillar, Edinburgh |
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Thank you to Davy Turner for sending a very quick
answer to Ann's question above. |
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Davy wrote:
Answer 1
to 4. above
Walls' Ice Cream Factory
"The Walls ice cream factory was situated
just off Niddrie Mains Road,
where Lidl is now (opposite
were St Francis School was).
I'm not sure when it
closed, but iIthink
it was in the early 1970s"
Davy Turner, Craigmillar, Edinburgh:
June 12, 2010 |
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Recollections
6.
Eric Gold
East London, England |
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Thank you to Eric Gold who added |
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Answer 2
to 4. above
Sausages and Pies
"The Wall’s ice-cream factory in
Craigmillar also made sausages and pies."
Location
"Davy Turner is
right about the location. It was dead
opposite Harewood Drive. I used to catch
the bus there to go to
school or up the town."
Fire
"The factory
lay derelict for a while as Walls relocated to
somewhere outside Edinburgh, possibly near
Haddington, then it was
destroyed in a huge fire."
"I lived in
Craigmillar with my sister in Harewood Drive after my folks passed away.
When I was in the Whitehoose pub,
someone told me about the fire. I’m
positive that was in the mid-1970s."
Eric Gold, East London: June 21,
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Dates
This page
on the Competition Commissions
web site reports that the Walls Ice Cream Factory at Craigmillar was
built in 1939.
I've not
yet found the exact date of the fire.
Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh: June 28, 2010 |
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Recollections
7.
Tony Ivanov
Bo'ness, West Lothian,
Scotland |
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Thank you to Tony Ivanov who added: |
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Answer 3
to 4. above
Vending Machine
"They had a vending machine outside
the Walls' ice cream factory. It dispensed
an ice cream for sixpence. You put in your sixpence, turned a handle and
out came your small block of ice cream.
Unfortunately for Walls I found out that if
you hit the machine hard enough then turned the handle at the same time
you got your ice cream. I know now it's dishonest,
but when you're a
child from a poor background you don't think of this."
Tony Ivanov, Bo'ness, West Lothian,
Scotland |
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Recollections
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Jim Cairns
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland |
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Thank you to Jim Cairns who wrote: |
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Answer 4
to 4. above
Walls Ice Cream Factory
"They Walls Ice Cream
Factory used to be on Niddrie Mains Road, where the Aldi's or LIDL store
is now, right behind the new doctors' surgery.
It was bought over by Polar
Ices in 1985, I think.
Jim Cairns, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland:
November 29, 2010
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Recollections
9.
Ian Birks
Highlands, Scotland |
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Thank you to Ian Birks who wrote: |
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Family
"My
family grew up at Craigmillar from the 1930s to the 1980s,
having been
relocated there from the south side area.
I was
born in 1959, son of
Jack and Jean Birks (nee Wilson).
We stayed in Craigmillar Castle Terrace and 27
Craigmillar Castle Road. We lost
our dad in 1967 in a
road traffic accident.
I
had:
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Brother Michael (born 1951),
and Sister Linda (b.1955).
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Uncles Bobby, John, Tam, Billy, Peter and
Auntie
Jessie
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Grannie was a bingo fanatic.
Granda who was blind.
He was a very accomplished accordion box player
who played regularly outside Three Tuns Pub in Hanover
Street.
Our grandparents stayed at 5 and 7
Craigmillar Gardens. They, with Uncle
Peter (who was deaf) and Uncle Tam,
loved a wee flutter at the bookies."
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Schools and Play
"It's
a pity that the old schools
are not computer literate, or are no
longer here! Oh, the poverty!
I attended Peffermill
Primary School and should have attended
Portobello High, but stuck with the lads and went to the Marischal.
I have no regrets!
I
loved every minute of it! How much to go back?
Name the price!
- up the quarry
- the dump and danger
woods
- up Arthur's Seat
and doon the burn
- the pony trecking
course
- the piggery
- nicking the golf
balls and flags at Duddingston Golf Course
- jumping back across
the burn
- brilliant!
- gutty fights with
burnt staples from the brewery
- pigeons
- and so on ..."
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Today
I am
ex-British
Army (Infantry) and still healthy and grafting
in the Highlands!"
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Ian Birks: January 12, 2011 |
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Recollections
10.
Alec Gallacher
Leith, Edinburgh
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Thank you to Alec Gallacher who wrote: |
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Answer 5
to 4. above
Walls Ice Cream Factory
"I know where the
Walls ice cream factory was. It was at the rear of Craigmillar
Castle Loan, across from St Francis' school. The dairy closed in the 1970s."
Alec Gallacher, Leith, Edinburgh, November 19, 2011
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Recollections
11.
Terry McGuire
Coventry, Warwickshire,
England
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Terry McGuire wrote: |
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Answer 6
to 4. above
Walls Ice Cream Factory
"The building opposite
St Francis' School was always referred to as 'The Creamery' in the 1940s"
Terry McGuire, Coventry, Warwickshire,
England: November 21, 2011
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