Can you remember ?

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Did mine at Leachkin Primary School

[IBM]

Who is Linda?  I passed mine 10 years later in the Merkinch Primary.

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

I got a C in "O" Level

 

[Charles Bannerman]

2 minutes ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

I got a C in "O" Level

 

When did they start offering Domestic Science to boys at the Royal Academy? Would this have been something you took up in your latter days at school, after they started ranking "O" Grade A, B, and C from I think 1973?

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Yip it would have been in 1973 ? I passed becos I stole the fish cakes off the lassies pan next to me - mine had become a massive fish pancake.

[Charles Bannerman]

8 hours ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Yip it would have been in 1973 ? I passed becos I stole the fish cakes off the lassies pan next to me - mine had become a massive fish pancake.

God knows what Miss Rose would have made of you!

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

[IBM]

They are all touching the lucky stone on the house on Lochalsh Road............it didn't work

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Have a go yerself !!

[JockWatt]

On ‎11‎/‎05‎/‎2015 at 4:26 AM, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

In your front room

 

[JockWatt]

I mind that we never bothered with this method - just lit some newspaper and shoved it up the chimney so that it reacted like a flamethrower !

[JockWatt]

On ‎25‎/‎08‎/‎2015 at 11:00 PM, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Going, going ....

I mind nipping in there many a tome to drink from the vinegar bottle - great on a hot day !!

[JockWatt]

On ‎4‎/‎11‎/‎2015 at 7:31 PM, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Where was this ?  Not in Academy Street, was it ?

[Charles Bannerman]

13 hours ago, IBM said:

They are all touching the lucky stone on the house on Lochalsh Road............it didn't work

It probably did back in Donald Dewar's day but has not tended to do so since 2007!

[Scarlet Pimple]

When I lived in Edinburgh in the early sixties I bought a stone -built house in Leith. One day, just as an experiment ,I lit some paper and also shoved it up the chimney thinking to give it a good clean out of all the soot. that had accumulated probably from 1850.

Then the whole chimney went up in flames and the roar nearly stifled the pounding of my heart. It's a good job that the house was so well built because there is no doubt that that fire was way out of control and I was  trembling as it died down. That was an experience that I have never forgotten.

East Restalrig Terrace was the location and I wonder if these homes are still standing.

We have had our share of forest fires completely out of control here in B.C., and Washington state just down the road from us in the U.S,  in the last two years as a result of the increasing global warming. And the devastation and power of these fires is daunting. They have huge water bombers dumping water on them day and night , scooped up from a nearby lakebut, no matter what they do, they just keep on growing  and consuming everything in their path.

I saw the results of the massive Kelowna fire a few years after the event  north of us here in British Columbia  several years ago and was astounded by its ferocity.If you were lucky you managed to see a chimney sticking out of the ground but nothing else,. No trees, no houses just an empty  moonscape for miles  ---very eerie.

[Yngwie]

15 hours ago, Scarlet Pimple said:

East Restalrig Terrace was the location and I wonder if these homes are still standing.

Have you tried Google Maps Street View?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9684664,-3.1599191,3a,75y,281.3h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAGbB_rZhXVpv2VpZnU3hsg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DAGbB_rZhXVpv2VpZnU3hsg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D289.65454%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656

[IBM]

3 hours ago, Yngwie said:

Have you tried Google Maps Street View?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9684664,-3.1599191,3a,75y,281.3h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAGbB_rZhXVpv2VpZnU3hsg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DAGbB_rZhXVpv2VpZnU3hsg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D289.65454%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656

Is that clouds in the sky or smoke lingering from Scarlet's chimney  

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

How could you forget !!

[Charles Bannerman]

6 hours ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

How could you forget !!

Memories!!!! And a classic shot too with a man in the chair and Diggar nowhere to be seen! He would either be in the back shop or sorting someone's coupon or out on the street shouting amiable abuse at someone - often not of either of his own two "blue" persuasion. The "D and D" is, I think, Diggar and Dennis, after Diggar took "young" Dennis into the business, maybe mid-late 60s. However Dennis didn't fancy it and I think went and drove buses instead before returning. Note the advert for the next Caley game in the window.

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Now that place was pure entertainment. Could you imagine one of the documentaries of today having a peek !!!!

[Charles Bannerman]

1 hour ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Now that place was pure entertainment. Could you imagine one of the documentaries of today having a peek !!!!

They would have needed subtitles every time Diggar opened his mouth! And that was frequently!! But yes indeed... pure entertainment - theatre even.

[Scarlet Pimple]

Yngwie and IBM:

Yes , thank you both----I did bring up the street, looking just the same as it did some 40+ years ago. Gosh but does the width of the street look small. That exterior cladding was sandstone I think ---- would look lovely with a careful power washing. But I have forgotten the house number so.....?

As  for Diggar. ....the barber in that shop before Diggar,  if it's the one on Greig Street right beside the bridge, was named Scott...everybody called him Scotty the barber. Another wag but a decent lad. Does anyone on here remember him.

One of this favorite sayings was  to tell you as a young lad when you walked in the door.. "Sorry, I'm not cutting hair any longer ." and as he looked at your dumb-founded face he would burst out laughing along with anyone else over 20 years old who was also in the shop. Oh, and one other thing--if it is the same shop then the chair was facing the mirror on the wall opposite the window which allowed you to look out on to Greig Street when he would turn you round.

[Charles Bannerman]

11 hours ago, Scarlet Pimple said:

Yngwie and IBM:

Yes , thank you both----I did bring up the street, looking just the same as it did some 40+ years ago. Gosh but does the width of the street look small. That exterior cladding was sandstone I think ---- would look lovely with a careful power washing. But I have forgotten the house number so.....?

As  for Diggar. ....the barber in that shop before Diggar,  if it's the one on Greig Street right beside the bridge, was named Scott...everybody called him Scotty the barber. Another wag but a decent lad. Does anyone on here remember him.

One of this favorite sayings was  to tell you as a young lad when you walked in the door.. "Sorry, I'm not cutting hair any longer ." and as he looked at your dumb-founded face he would burst out laughing along with anyone else over 20 years old who was also in the shop. Oh, and one other thing--if it is the same shop then the chair was facing the mirror on the wall opposite the window which allowed you to look out on to Greig Street when he would turn you round.

Was there not another barber's in Grieg St, nearer the river? Might that have been Scotty's??

[Scarlet Pimple]

That depends on when Diggar started his the Greig Street location?

I was having my hair cut there from about 1947 to, say,1956 and I would have assumed that, with Scotty being seemingly in good health at these times,  he would have continued there for many more years.

His place was on the left side of Greig Street going down towards the bridge and maybe some ten to 15 yards away from the end of the pavement very close to the river. I don't remember any other barber at that location .?