Peter Hoffmann The Stair (6 Oxgangs Avenue 1958-1972) /Oxgangs - A Pastime From Time Past

Peter Hoffmann The Stair 6 OXGANGS AVENUE EDINBURGH, a blog about the everyday life of eight families living in one of the post war new council housing schemes on the south of the city set in the lea of the Pentland Hills between the years 1958 to 1972. (Since 2017 incorporating the Facebook page, OXGANGS - A PASTIME FROM TIME PAST)

Sunday, 19 August 2012

Bed in Summer

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We had to go to bed far too early on summer evenings when we were young. We children had the back bedroom which faced toward the Pentlan...
Saturday, 18 August 2012

6/1 The Swansons

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Iain Hoffmann; Peter Hoffmann; Norman Stewart; Gavin Swanson (Back garden, 6/2, circa 1961) 11 The Swansons, 6/1 The Swans...
Friday, 17 August 2012

The Gap in the Curtain

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Polygon Press 2012 edition Living at Oxgangs is quite clear in my memory and vivid in my mind; as the cliché goes, it seems only like ...

Pentland Hills and Swanston Village

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Caerketton Hill (Dave Henniker) Swanston Village Cottages with thatched roofs (Undiscovered Scotland) After wandering through ...
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Swanston Pig Farm

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Road to Swanston Village with Old Pig Farm in background (Dave Henniker) In the early to mid-1960s between the ages of around seve...
Thursday, 16 August 2012

The Landscape; the Farms and RLS

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T he flats built at Oxgangs on the south side of Edinburgh were on farm land, presumably on the former Oxgangs Farm, situated in the lea ...
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The Residents

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Original number plate at 6 Oxgangs Avenue Edinburgh EH13 (Peter Hoffmann) Even though during the years between 1958 and 1972 one or t...

Oxgangs - A Pastime From Time Past Shell-shocked - Old Sandy's Story

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Painting by Ed Newman Exchanging memories and stories can be quite revelatory.  Andrew Baird son of the founder of Baird...

6 Oxgangs Avenue Edinburgh EH13 1958-1972

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It occurred to me there may be some value and some interest in writing about the families and lifestyle of the families who lived at an ...
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