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Recollections
Edinburgh Shops
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Recollections
1.
Valerie Mills
Luss, Argyll & Bute, Scotland |
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Thank you to
Valerie Mills who wrote:
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Edinburgh
Shops
"I left Edinburgh 5 yrs ago. I now live
1 mile outside the village of Luss, on the Banks of Loch Lomond.
Even before I left Edinburgh, and all the
shops had changed from the days of my childhood, I still got immense
pleasure walking down Leith Walk and 'remembering'.
I remember:
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Gows on the 'Walk' for
my school tie and blouse.
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The Co-op Bakery at the
end of Hermitage Park, that still used red hand carts for the Milk Boys.
- Patrick
Thomsons, up the Bridges, where you got your
hair cut, and you didn't sit on a chair. It was a 'carousel horse'.
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J and R Allens
further up, on the end of Chambers St.
Valerie Mills, Luss, Argyll & Bute, Scotland:
October 14 2007 |
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Recollections
2.
Val Turner
Australia |
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Val
Turner used to live at Colinton and visit the shops and other
attractions in the centre of Edinburgh, before emigrating to
Australia.
Val
writes:
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Edinburgh
Shops
"I
remember:
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Lipton's,
I think, round the corner from Tollcross.
They had lovely black and white tiles on the floor which I loved
(and the bacon slicer and cheese cutter.
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Crawfords
on Princes Street. We'd
watch the Scottish dancing in Princes Street Gardens on Saturday mornings
and go to Crawfords for tea in for
afternoon. It was served by waitresses in
frilly white aprons and have delicious cream trifle little cakes in
choc. cups.
- all
the little shops on the Royal Mile and John
Knox's house with the little steps going up and the turret windows.
I always recognize Scottish architecture
by the round turrets." |
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Edinburgh Castle
"Sometimes,
we'd go into the Castle. I remember one room with the Castle Rock
growing through the floor!! it was polished black, as I remember, but no
one else remembers it - just me, so perhaps it was not really
there." |
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Christmas Tree
"I
remember the enormous Christmas tree on the Mound
that Norway sent us each year. so they still do that?"
The Norwegians still provide the
tree, but there have been problems transporting it from Norway for the
past three years. So the latest tree
(Christmas
2007) came from
the Scottish Borders, but the Norwegians still paid for it!
- Peter Stubbs |
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Val Turner, Esk, Queensland, Australia: January12,
2008. |
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Recollections
3.
Phil Wilson
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
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Thank you to Phil Wilson who wrote:
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Roderick Tweedie
"I
delivered parcels of quality clothing as a teenager in the 60s from the
'Roderick Tweedie' shop on George Street's southern side.
This sometimes involved long bus trips to
large houses on Edinburgh's Southside, as the shop in general catered to a
rather up-market clientele."
Phil Wilson, Aberdeen,
Aberdeenshire, Scotland: August 1, 2006
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Recollections
4.
Lin Pender
nee
Waugh nee
Letham
Eindhoven, Netherlands |
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Thank you to Lin Pender who wrote:
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Family
"I lived in Brown Street,
Dumbiedykes, and moved to Firhill when I was 14. My mother and father
were Frances and David Letham and my sister was Valerie Letham. I was
Linda Anne Letham back then.
I went to Drummond Street School in 1952,
then went on to the South Bridge School and James Clark Schools."
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Shops
Veitch
Causewayside
"I remember
Veitch's shop in the Causewayside.
I loved the sugar mice.
Goldberg
Tollcross
I worked in shoe shops when I left the
school. Then,
I worked in Goldbergs when it
first opened.
It was wonderful not having to work on a
Saturday.
It was such a glamorous job in these
days, and I counted myself lucky to have secured a job there.
I worked in the ladies shoe department and then in young fashion.
Before you served a customer you had to
check your smile in a wee mirror they supplied you with.
You could not call your customers dear or
hen, it had to be madam and sir. I ended up working in the office on the
accounting machines with my friend Marlene.
I'd like to hear from
anyone who remembers me." |
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Lin
Pender, Eindhoven, Netherlands: July 16, 2008
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Contacting Linda
If you'd like to
contact Linda,
please email me and I'll pass on your message to her.
Thank
you.
- Peter Stubbs: July 16, 2008 |
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Recollections
5.
James A Rafferty
Falkirk, Stirlingshire,
Scotland |
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James A Rafferty who wrote:
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QUESTION |
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Willie Layden's Shop
"Can any of your readers help?
I was brought up in the High
Street, and on a Sunday
morning we were sent to Willie Layden's for the
rolls .
I think it was on the
right-side as you go down the street, but
others say it was on the left,.
Can anyone remember?"
James A Rafferty, Falkirk, Stirlingshire,
Scotland: July 29, 2008
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ANSWER |
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Willie Layden's Shop
I've
checked my old copies of the Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directories.
All four (1930-31, 1940-41, 1950-51 and 1961-62.)
Each of
these directories lists just one William
Layden. His address, each time, is given as 18 Blackfriars Street
Blackfriars
Street is on the right as you go down the High Street, just below
the junction with North Bridge.
Blackfriars Street - 1961
©
Peter Stubbs:
July 29, 2008 |
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