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Recollections
Leith
Ice Cream Shop
1940s
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Recollections
1.
Douglas Beith |
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Thank you to Douglas Beath,
Burnie, Tasmania (formerly Granton, Edinburgh) for the following
comments.
Douglas wrote:
Ice Cream
"I also fondly remember the
ice cream. My father pointed out his shop at the southwest
end of Junction Bridge at Leith, and said "That's where to get good ice
cream" (even during the war, somehow !).
I was delighted in 1967 to come across the
same flavour in, of all places, the then rather seedy Strand Hotel in
Rangoon !
The only other diners, an Australian
couple, suggested it had been made with custard powder."
Douglas Beath, Burnie, Tasmania: October 2005
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Recollections
2.
Frank Ferri |
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Thank you to Frank Ferri who replied to the comments above in which
Douglas Beath originally described the Leith ice cream shop as Demarco's,
Frank wrote:
Georgio De Felice Ice Cream
"Sorry I have to contradict Douglas, but
the ice cream shop that he mentions was Georgio De Felice, right next door
to Tommy Wills the butcher, opposite the old State Cinema, round the
corner from Ballantyne Rd Leith.
I knew Georgio well, being of Italian decent
myself. I remember his shop window being put in, as happened to a
lot of Italian properties at the start of the War, due to British
hostilities against Italians and the Italians allying with Germany."
Frank Ferri, Newhaven, Leith: May 1, 2008 |
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Douglas Beith replied:
"I unhesitatingly accept Frank Ferri's more
certain recollection of the Junction Bridge ice cream shop's name,
so probably my mistaken words should be amended."
Douglas Beath, Burnie, Tasmania: May 3, 2008
Thanks Douglas.
I've now removed the name of the shop from your recollections in 1
above.
Peter Stubbs: May 3, 2008 |
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