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Recollections
Royston
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Despite the desolate appearance of
Royston Beach (above),
it is only about three miles from the centre of Edinburgh
1970s
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Recollections
1.
Andy Merrylees
Burnaby, British Colombia, Canada
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Royston Beach
Thank you to Andy Merrylees for the recollections below. Andy lived in
Edinburgh until he emigrated to Canada in 1988.
Andy's grandparents, Andrew and Lizzy Merrylees, moved from
Canonmills to 62 Granton Crescent in 1937. Both lived there until
their deaths in the 1980s.
Andy wrote:
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Coal from the Beach
"Looking at the photos of Royston beach brought back memories
from 1972 of my father, his close cousin and myself when we used to go
down there and pick up coal off the beach for our old coal fire.
We also used burn some of the coal in
small bonfires we lit on the beach in the rocks facing Silverknowes.
One of my father's brothers in law
didn't believe my father about the coal that we could get from the
beach.
He was speechless when he came with us
one weekend. For years, he thought that the coal came from the old
mine shafts that were under the Firth of Forth." |
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Change?
"I remember saying to my father I wonder what this place will look like
in a hundred years from now. It has changed in the last
twenty, never mind the next hundred!"
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Andy Merrylees, Burnaby, British Colombia, Canada:
29 + 31 December 2005 |
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Recollections
2.
Anne
Third
Corstorphine, Edinburgh |
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Thank you to Ann Third for
leaving this message in the EdinPhoto guestbook.
Anne wrote: |
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Royston Mains Crescent
"I am originally from
Royston, and am now living in Corstorphine.
I'd dearly like to hear
from anybody who, like me, was living in Royston Mains Crescent in the
1970s."
Anne Third, Corstorphine: Message
posted in guestbook, November 18, 2008 |
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Unfortunately, I don't have an email address for
Ann, so if you wish to contact her it would probably be best to:
- post a new message to her in the
EdinPhoto guestbook, or
- post a reply to the message she left in the
guestbook on Nov 18, 2008. |
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