Edinburgh History - Recollectons

Recollections

Jackie Quinn

Lanarkshire, Scotland

Thank you to Jackie Quinn who wrote:

Logie Green Road

"I lived at No 9 East Thomas Street until the age of nine, then left Edinburgh. I returned when I was 17 to live in Logie Green Road, Warriston, for a few months."

Warriston Graveyard

"Craving the countryside, I would walk down to Warriston Graveyard, This was 1971.

I was always drawn to a beautiful crypt.

I would stare through the glass in the door gazing in awe at the white marble lady lying inside. I fell in love with the beauty of the white marble figure lying at peace bathed in red light from the stained glass window.

She was peaceful, glorious and certainly one of the most wonderful sights I have ever seen.

The Building was a masterpiece of architecture which captured a magical air that had to be seen and felt to understand it. I always wondered at what had been so special about her in life to have deserved such a burial and monument to her memory.

There was minor vandalism to the tomb but I was sad to see and read on this site that she had been so desecrated and ruined; how shameful. She has lived in my heart and memory all these years and I am honoured to have seen the beauty of this crypt before it was destroyed."

Jackie Quinn, Lanarkshire, Scotland: January 6, 2007

Recollections

G M Rigg

Edinburgh

Thank you to GM Rig for posting this message in the EdinPhoto guest book:

Royal Botanic Gar

"We spent a lot of time in the summer at 'The Botanics' (Royal Botanic Garden at Goldenacre) having a roam around and a picnic for free, even although picnics were banned."

Puddockie Park

"Puddockie Park (behind The Botanics) was another haunt - it furnished kids with frog spawn or tadpoles, that your mother promptly disposed of when you took them home."

Message posted in EdinPhoto Guest Book: G M Rigg, Edinburgh, April 8, 2009

Recollections

Danny Callaghan

Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland

Thank you to Danny Callaghan who saw a photograph of railway workers on a bogie in the 'Where is it?' pages on the EdinPhoto web site, and wrote:

"I don't know anything about this particular picture, but know the type of bogie."

Warriston

"Our neighbour, Magnus Flucker, was a railway linesman in Edinburgh and like many railwaymen had an allotment on the railway land. His was near Warriston Cemetery where the lines split, one going to Granton and the other heading to Leith along by St Mark's Park, so the allotments were on a large triangle plot."

Kids

"As kids, we used to go with Magnus to his allotment at the weekends, there were no trains at the weekend, as the line was only used for goods trains by that time, in the 1950s.

A few times, he would put a couple of the bogie wheels on the lines and the platform sat on top. These were stored at side of track near the linesman's bothy.

We had great fun pushing the bogie on the rails. It was not 'silent movie' type with the pump handle. You just pushed it. However, it did have a brake, thankfully.

The simple pleasures before H&S and Nintendos, etc!"

Danny Callaghan, Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland: December 27, 2009