Old Porty

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Duranie
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Old Porty

Post by Duranie » 09 Sep 2004, 22:43

Found this site as a result of my 6 year old having to learn about Porty at school. Lived in Porty for the first year of my life but that was 37 years ago. My gran stayed in a tenement in Figgate Street and it had views of the open air pool and power station from the back. Can anyone help me find photos of Figgate Street or the pool please?
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Re: Old Porty

Post by Gemini » 14 Sep 2004, 19:31

Duranie wrote:Found this site as a result of my 6 year old having to learn about Porty at school. Lived in Porty for the first year of my life but that was 37 years ago. My gran stayed in a tenement in Figgate Street and it had views of the open air pool and power station from the back. Can anyone help me find photos of Figgate Street or the pool please?
I subscribed to SCRAN and have found some interesting photo's of Porty - can't put them on the forum due to copyright etc. but well worth the 25 quid for a years subscription, however, I have not been able to find out anything about the Mitchell Buildings which were sited where Kwik Fit/Jet Garage now stand, it's as though these tenements never existed?
anyone have any information on them?
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Post by Poppy » 14 Sep 2004, 19:55

The book of photographs "Old Portobello" by Margeorie Mekie mentioned elsewhere on this site has a couple of photos of the open air pool and the power station - one of the latter might just have a sliver of the tenements opposite it showing!

The book was [is?] on sale at the library and in local shops too.
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Post by Duranie » 14 Sep 2004, 20:51

Thanks to both Gemini and Poppy for their info. I'll get down to the library and try to get a copy of the book.

Excuse my ignorance but what is SCRAN and how do I go about subscribing? :?:
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Post by Gemini » 15 Sep 2004, 21:29

Duranie - SCRAN is an Educational Learning Image Site.

www.scran.ac.uk
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Post by mr magnolia » 15 Sep 2004, 23:03

They need to learn to spell - shouldn't it be ELIS?

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Post by ecm » 16 Sep 2004, 23:46

Gemini wrote:Duranie - SCRAN is an Educational Learning Image Site.

www.scran.ac.uk
There are over a thousand hits for portobello and some brilliant pics amongst it all.


Thanks for this Gemini - very interesting.
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