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Recollections
Greenside
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St James Square |
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Recollections
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G M Rigg
New Zealand |
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Thank you to GM Rigg for posting this message in the
EdinPhoto guest book:
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"I
can't remember the name of our local
church hall used for Brownies, Girl Guides, Sunday School, etc.,
but I think it would have been owned/run by Greenside Church,
which was next door to the Playhouse cinema/theatre."
"I remember
that we had a really nice American girl
called Hazel Berry who ran the Sunday School,
as well as outings and picnics (We
went to Peebles, once.)
She
was training for the ministry. When she left,
she bought each child a Bible and gave
each of us an American 1 cent coin
and Bazooka
bubble gum !"
Message posted in EdinPhoto
Guest Book: G M Rigg, New Zealand: April 7, 2009
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Recollections
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G M Rigg
New Zealand |
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Thank you to GM Rigg for
adding these further memories to the guest book:
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"The
businesses around the St James' Square & Greenside areas that I
remember from the late-1950s and early-1970s
are:
- Strachan's,
the Ladies Hairdressers. This was
where I had my hair cut as a child, and
my mum had her perms done.
It was situated at the Leith Walk
clock tower junction, just off
London Road, just around the corner from Rankins the
fruit & vegetable shop.
- The
barber's shop off St James'
Square, on East Register Street
at the Princes Street end. This is
was where my brothers had their hair
cut.
It was accessed down a wide flight of
steps, and there was a huge model of a
bear on a striped pole over the door.
I'm pretty sure I saw the bear on the
pole at Huntly House Museum years later.
- The
big pharmacy on Elm Row that still had all the Victorian jars,
bottles and drawers that you would
expect to see in a museum now.
- Timothy
White's, the chemist
shop opposite Jerome's "THE" photographers.
- Valvona &
Crolla on Elm Row. This was everyone's
favourite 'smellicatessen',
as we kids used to call it. It's
a lot posher now than it was in the 1950's.
- The Dolls Hospital, opposite St
Mary's RC Cathedral, in the basement, if memory serves.
It was between the Deep Sea &
Meiklejohn's, the grocer.
"I
have a vague recollection of the Doll's
Hospital being near the West Port.
I also noticed, many years ago,
that there was a Doll's Hospital at
Dalry Road, Haymarket. It has now gone
from there."
Lynda Maine,
Colinton Mains, Edinburgh
May 8, 2009
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Tony Ivanov replied:
"I can remember the Doll's
Hospital in the 1950s. It was actually in the Grassmarket at
the foot of the West Port.
To be more precise, at the
foot of the West Port turn left and it was just a few doors along."
Tony Ivanov, Bo'ness,
West Lothian, Scotland:
May 11, 2009 |
The only other shop I can remember in
the street was a pharmacy (or similar) as it had medical
instruments in the window, presumably to
sell to the many medical students lodging in the area
Message posted in EdinPhoto
Guest Book: G M Rigg, New Zealand: April 25, 2009
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Recollections
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Betty Fraser (nee
Simpson)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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Betty Fraser wrote:
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St James Square -
YWCA
"By the way, does anyone remember the
'YW' - the YWCA club
which was in a hall in St James Square circa 1945-48.
It was run
by Mrs Masters?"
Betty Fraser: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia:
November 8, 2008
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