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Crewe Toll North Edinburgh |
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Recollections |
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Rab Lettice |
Church Shops |
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Rab Lettice |
Ice Cream Vans |
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Rab Lettice |
Home Ice Cream Vans |
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Winnie Liddell (née
Thomson) |
Shops |
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Rab Lettice |
Barrow Do You Remember |
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Yvonne Cain |
Rev Ian Reid |
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Winnie Liddell (née
Thomson) |
Shops Old Kirk Homes |
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Dorothy Finlay |
Ladies' Basketball |
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Dorothy Finlay |
Ladies' Basketball |
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Brian Alexander |
Mobile Shop |
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Home and School Ironmonger Friends |
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Dorothy Finlay |
TV at Crewe Road North |
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Graeme Charles Munro |
Under the Railway Bridges |
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Hugh Mcleod (aka.
Shuggy) |
Myself - Ferry Road Drive My Old Pals - Ferry Road Place |
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Dave Adair |
Crewe Road Gardens - No. 8 |
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David Ross |
Crewe Toll and Pennywell - Place Names |
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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 (née Thomson) Canada |
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Winnie Liddell (née 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 (née 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 6. 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 (née 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 (née Thomson): January 20, 2012 |
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Recollections 8. Dorothy Finlay (née Cossar) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
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Thank you to Dorothy Finlay (née 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? * The other players were Cathie Duncan and Betty Desousa. They came from around the Boswall area."
Dorothy Finlay (née Cossar), Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia |
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Recollections 9. Dorothy Finlay (née 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, née 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 (née Cossar), Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia |
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Recollections 10. Brian Alexander Prestonfield, Edinburgh |
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Thank you to Brian Alexander who read Alistair Rankine's comments about mobile shops in the streets at Colinton, and added: |
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Mobile Shops "Alistair Rankine's comments on mobile shops and Martin's Bakery certainly brought back memories of the late-1950s and early-1960s. I lived in Telford Drive at that time. - One of the mobile shops was a converted Bedford OB single deck coach, known as 'Johnny's'. He sold almost everything! - We also had the SCWS bread van and a fruiter but I can't remember the name of the company. During school holiday, we kids would be sent to the vans with the shopping list." Brian Alexander, Prestonfield, Edinburgh: July 17, 2012 |
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Recollections 11 Findlay Smith |
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Thank you to Findlay Smith for posting a reply to Dorothy Finlay's message (West End, Recollections 2 above) in the EdinPhoto Guestbook. Findlay wrote: |
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Home and School "Dear Dorothy: I remember you from the old days in the 1940s. I was brought up at 204 Crewe Road North, opposite Crewe Path. I had a brother called Andrew. I was at Ainslie Park School from 1951 to 1954. I notice from your previous comments that you also used to live in the Crewe area." Ironmonger "I used to work after school hours for Mr Irvine the ironmonger in Crewe Road North, delivering wireless batteries etc. on an old fashioned bike with a huge holding bay on the front." Friends "My good friend was Billy Stevenson. He married Eleanor Irvine who I also knew very well. We were the same age. Sadly, Eleanor died at an early age."
Findlay Smith: Reply to Dorothy Finlay's Message of
September 9, 2012 |
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Recollections 12. Dorothy Finlay (née Cossar) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
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Dorothy Findlay has posted a reply to Findlay Smith (Recollections 11 above). After reading that Findlay used to live at Crewe Road North, Dorothy wrote: |
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TV at Crewe Road North "Findlay: I remember a couple who lived at the corner of Crewe Road North and Crewe Path. Their name was Dalziel. It was in their house that I first saw TV. 'Bill & Ben, The Flowerpot Men' We sat with the curtains closed. It was magic. I guess there have been many changes in the Crewe area."
Dorothy Finlay (née Cossar), Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia |
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Recollections 13. Graeme Charles Munro Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
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Thank you to Graeme Munro who wrote: |
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Under the Railway Bridges "I've just been reading about the White Warden in the 'Ghosts' paragraph on this Royston page. We had one too, at Crewe Toll. He was not a nice man! He used to stand under the bridges on Ferry Road at Crewe Toll in the war years. He wore a white coat and grabbed ladies as they passed under the bridges when it was dark. Some men got together and went along and took him to task in the end." Graeme Charles Munro, South Australia, Australia: March 29, 2013 |
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Recollections 14 Hugh Mcleod (aka. Shuggy) Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England |
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Hugh Mcleod wrote in the EdinPhoto guestbook: |
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Myself Ferry Road Drive "I lived in 37 Ferry Road Drive from 1945 until late-1950s. I'd love to here from anyone who remembers me. I went to Ainslie Park school. I had two brothers, Charles and Marcus (both deceased) I also had 4 sisters, Doreen (deceased), Margaret, Evelyn and Lily." My Old Pals Ferry Road Place "I'd love to find my two pals, namely: - Billy Hamilton who lived in Ferry Road Place in 1950. - Eddie Traynor. I think he also lived in Ferry Road Place. I'd be very happy if anyone could put me in touch with either of them."
Hugh McLeod, Lincoln, Lincolnshire,
England: |
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Unfortunately, I don't know the email address for Hugh McLeod, so if you'd like to send a reply to him, please post it as a reply to one of the two messages that he posted in the EdinPhoto Guestbook on 4 December 2013. Thank you. Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh: 9 December 2013 |
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Recollections 15 Dave Adair Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England |
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Dave Adair wrote in the EdinPhoto guestbook: |
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Question 8 Crewe Road Gardens "Hi. I'd like to know if 8 Crewe Road Gardens is still there. The reason I'd like to know is that my late father, John Adair, lived there in 1940 before joining the RAF I have only found this out because of his service records."
Dave Adair, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire,
England: |
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Reply Yes. I visited Crewe Road Gardens last week and found that No. 8 is still there. I took a photo of it., and photos of other houses in the street. Please click on the thumbnail image of it below to see the photos: Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh: 15 March 2014 |
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Recollections 16. David Ross Granton, Edinburgh |
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Thank you to David Ross who wrote |
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Crewe Toll and Pennywell "Crew Toll was a place where drovers from Leith Docks had to bring their cattle, horses and other animals to get them up North. It was a good road for them, but once they reached Crewe Toll, they had to pay a toll for each head of animals for the use of the road. Then they had to get water for their animals before heading north. That was done at Penny Well, the last watering hole from the Docks until they got them much further north. They paid a penny per head with a discount for large numbers of animals. The name 'Penny for the Well' soon got changed to Pennywell. Later, the railways started moving cattle etc to the North." David Ross, Granton, Edinburgh: 15 November 2015 |
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