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© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Yvonne Cain (née Dorr)
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Wardie School Class |
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Photograph Thank you to Yvonne Cain (née Dorr), now living in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, for sending this photograph of a school class from Wardie, taken in the 1950s. Yvonne is third from the right on the front row: Yvonne Dorr Yvonne writes: |
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"I remember some the names of some of the
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Family and Homes I used to live in a Prefab at West Pilton Broadway, then at 28 Boswall Terrace. She went to Wardie school in the 1950s, then to Ainsley Park school for about a year, then moved to Glasgow. I returned to Edinburgh at the age of 15, living in Montgomery Street, where my mum and dad who ran the Post Office there Then, in 1969, I emigrated from Edinburgh to Sydney, Australia. |
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Grandparents "My granny was born at Croft-an-Righ, as her father was Head Gardener at Holyrood Palace. She later lived at 27 Royston Mains Garden, next to the bowling green. My grandad had a great garden. He was a Boson in the navy and used to drink at the Anchor." |
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Uncle "My great uncle, Robert Malcolm was a horse dealer he had a place at Juniper green called Whitelaw, near the golf course. You could see the railway crossing from his front gate. His father was also a dealer in horses." |
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Yvonne Cain (née Dorr), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: July 7 to 24, 2006. |
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North Edinburgh Cramond - Granton - Royston - Trinity - Wardie |
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Maps Granton: transport map 1932 Granton: small map 1870 Granton: large map 1870 |
Recollections Cramond: from 1940s Cramond Island: 1970s Granton: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1970s Granton, Trinity, Wardie: 1940s 1950s - 60s Shops Lower Granton Road all dates Muirhouse from 1930s Pilton: 1940 bomb Royston: from 1930s |
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History Granton, Trinity, Wardie: from 1544 |
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