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Crewe Toll
North Edinburgh
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Recollections |
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Rab Lettice
Leith, Edinburgh |
Church
Shops |
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2. |
Rab Lettice
Leith, Edinburgh |
Ice Cream Vans |
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Rab Lettice
Leith, Edinburgh |
Home
Ice Cream Vans |
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Winnie Liddell (nee
Thomson)
Canada |
Shops |
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Rab Lettice
Leith, Edinburgh |
Barrow
Do You Remember |
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Yvonne Cain
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Rev Ian Reid |
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7. |
Winnie Liddell (nee
Thomson)
Canada |
Shops
Old Kirk
Homes |
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8. |
Dorothy Finlay
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Ladies' Basketball |
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9. |
Dorothy Finlay
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Ladies' Basketball |
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Recollections
1.
Rab Lettice
Leith,
Edinburgh |
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Thank you to Rab Lettice who wrote: |
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Church
"There used to be a church
at Crewe Toll. It was knocked down and rebuilt at Pennywell Road.
The Minister there was Rev Reid. He looked like Hitler, and had the
moustache too. I was told that he had shellshock.
All the kids at Pennywell
Primary School went to the church when King George VI died in 1952.
Then in 1953, we all got Coronation Mugs. I still have mine."
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Shops
"At the bus stop at Crewe
Toll, Mr Thomson sold newspapers and fresh rolls from his kiosk. His
son, Jackie had a fruit shop in Ferry Road Drive in the 1950s.
Before he had it, it was a butcher's shop."
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Rab Lettice, Leith,
Edinburgh: March 22,
2011 |
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Recollections
2.
Rab Lettice
Leith,
Edinburgh |
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Thank you to Rab Lettice who wrote: |
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Ice Cream Vans
"The ice cream vans
that were about in our area, West Pilton, Crewe and Muirhouse sold Polar
Ices. The vans were owned by the Dobbie brothers who had a factory
in Stockbridge.
Here is a photo of Dougie Walker, aged 14, leaning
out of the ice cream van:
©
Once, another company tried
to muscle in with their Capaldi van, but when that van turned up, there
were two Polar Ices vans beside it. It got chased out of the area."
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Rab Lettice, Leith,
Edinburgh: March 23,
2011 |
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Recollections
3.
Rab Lettice
Leith,
Edinburgh |
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Rab Lettice added: |
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Home
"We
lived at 8 West Pilton Grove until 1974 when we bought a flat in
Leith for £1,700."
Ice Cream Van
"Here is a photo that I
took of Jimmy
Dobbie's 'Polar Ices' ice cream van in West Pilton Grove in the
late-1950s. Jimmy gave us all a cone if I took a few photos of his
van."
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Rab Lettice, Leith,
Edinburgh: March 28+29,
2011 |
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Recollections
4.
Winnie Liddell (nee
Thomson)
Canada |
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Winnie Liddell (nee Thomson) replied to Rab Lettice's memories of the
shops at Crewe Toll in Recollections 1
above. |
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Shops
"I
am Jackie Thomson's daughter. I probably served you in my Dad's
kiosk at Crewe Toll."
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Winnie Liddell (nee Thomson):
January 19, 2012 |
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Recollections
5.
Rab Lettice
Leith,
Edinburgh |
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Rab Lettice replied: |
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Barrow
"Yes, Winnie Thomson's father also went
round the streets afterwards with a barrow selling rolls etc.
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Do You Remember?
"The Pennywell
School has sadly gone, but does anyone remember the shows at the top of
Pennywell Road? The school that was there has moved and the
spare ground looks like it looked in the 1950s. The part where I
played was called 'The Corn Field'.
Does anyone remember the RAF huts over the
corn field? When we were kids, we could see search lights, but they
are gone now."
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Rab Lettice, Leith,
Edinburgh: January 19, 2012 |
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Recollections
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Yvonne Cain
Sydney, New South
Wales, Australia |
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Thank you to Yvonne Cain for responding to Rab Lettice's comments in
Recollections 1 above. |
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Rev Ian Reid
"I was
christened by a minister,
Ian Reid, on the 19 July
1950. I don't remember what he looked like.
I also have a
postcard from the Old Kirk of Edinburgh with
'Birthday Greetings from your Parish Church'.
We lived at 6
West Pilton Broadway. I can remember
where the church was. It was on the main
road - could it have
Pennywell Drive?
I can remember the
minister coming around. We had a budgie
that swore only one word, and only at him.
It had to be covered up as my mum was
embarrassed at that."
Yvonne Cain, Sydney, New South Wales,
Australia: January 21, 2012 |
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Recollections
7.
Winnie Liddell (nee
Thomson)
Canada |
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Winnie replied to Rab's comments in
Recollections 5 above: |
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Shops
"Rab is close. After the kiosk,
before the store, was a wee dot truck, a
motorbike vehicle that did the job."
Old Kirk
"I remember The
Old Kirk with the minister Mr Reid."
Homes
"Like Rab,
I also lived in West
Pilton Grove. Then I moved to
West Pilton View.
Isn't it amazing after all these these years technology brings us
this close amazing, cheers."
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Winnie Liddell (nee Thomson):
January 20, 2012 |
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Recollections
8.
Dorothy Finlay (nee
Cossar)
Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia |
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Thank you to Dorothy Finlay (nee Cossar) who wrote: |
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Ladies' Basketball
"When
I lived at Crewe Road West
in the 1950s, there was an
Army Sergeant who started the Shooting Stars
ladies' basketball team.
I
was one off the first to join. We trained
at some facility in the Pleasance. Mary Davis
played for Scotland and
also a team called Auld Reekie. Do they
still exist? *
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I think the answer is 'No'.. - Peter
Stubbs.
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other players were
Cathie Duncan
and Betty Desousa. They came from around the
Boswall area."
Dorothy Finlay (nee Cossar), Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia
Message posted in EdinPhoto Guestbook: February 20, 2012 |
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Recollections
9.
Dorothy Finlay (nee
Cossar)
Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia |
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Following her comments in 'Recollections 8' above, Dorothy posted this
message in the EdinPhoto guestbook: |
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Ladies' Basketball
"Do you remember me asking about a ladies
basketball team called Auld Reekie? Well, while reading the Evening
News, I came up with the obituary of Cathie Preston, nee Duncan, who
played for Shooting Stars, Auld Reekie and Zephyrs' ladies basketball
teams.
Like me, she was a founding member and was in
the first international team which went to Prague in 1956. I was 16
and trained with the team, with Mary Davis, Betty de Sousa and Anna
Herman.
Cathie married the Hibs player, Tommy Preston,
and like me in her later years was a bowls champ. I was a Queensland
State Champion in 2004. She lived in the Wardie area.
If anyone remembers the team I'd love to hear
from them.
Thank you.
Dorothy Finlay (nee Cossar), Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia
Message posted in EdinPhoto Guestbook: April 8, 2012 |
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