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

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, 29 September 2013

Comment From Alan Brown

Comment: Hi Peter, First off can I just say your blog is fantastic! All the photos and stories just bring Oxgangs back to life, the trips d...

Monday, 23 September 2013

Comment From Alan B on The White Lady

Very interesting story! Recalling an account from the early 1970's by my pal Eric Mullen (Oxgangs Ave) he, his sister, Liz, and my broth...

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Comment From Paul Kaszynski

myself, a brat who vaguely gazed on the knee high nineteen fifties and the waist high nineteen sixties and couldn't figure numbers worth...

Thursday, 15 August 2013

On The Cusp Of the Year

Today is Thursday, 15th August, 2013. It's the last day of the year since, on a whim, I first started the blog, The Stair, on Thursd...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Comment From Neil Kellock (2/2 The Stair, 1963-1976)

Comment : Had an interesting time reading many of the posts here, great fun and brought back a lot of memories. Got me thinking about my ...

Saturday, 13 July 2013

'Ox-Gangs'

We at The Stair grew up knowing only flats at Oxgangs Avenue and for those with longer memories also the old prefabs. ...

Comment From Neil Kellock

Wow, just stumbled across this blog and can't wait to read through the whole thing. I'm in Canada now but lived at 2/2 Oxgangs Avenu...

Sunday, 30 June 2013

The White Lady

Did mass hysteria have a ghost of a chance of occurring in Oxgangs in the early to middle sixties? According to Wikipedia the te...

Saturday, 29 June 2013

Comment From Edward Alexander Smart

Peter, thanks for creating the 6oxgangsavenue blog. It was so great to discover in-depth memories of the area, albeit a bit earlier than m...

Saturday, 8 June 2013

"One Mid-Summer Morn-Three Girls, Swanston and the Pentlands, 1913-1914 Anonymous Comment

Comment: Beautiful picture Peter-I have been following your memories avidly Unfortunately Oxgangs for me does not hold the same pleasant me...

Friday, 7 June 2013

The Sunday Post #5 One Mid-Summer Morn

Pentland Hills and T Plantation circa 1914 (Photographer Unknown Edinburgh Libraries, Museums and Galleries Collection) Th...

Saturday, 11 May 2013

Comments on Dr Motley and Oxgangs Crescent and Broadway Shops From PsyGeo

Comments From PsyGeo 'Thanks for remembering Dr Motley - he did his best to help my mum - that trip to the cottage was a regular ...

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

VignetteTaken From Edinburgh Photos Website Courtesy Peter Stubbs-Motivated By Series On Edinburgh Prefabs

Peter Hoffmann Highlands, Scotland Thank you to Douglas Blades for allowing me to reproduce the photo below, and also to Peter Hoffm...

Thursday, 14 March 2013

Photies From The South-Oxgangs And Its Neighbouring Edinburgh Communities: Colinton Village Garages

It's occasionally occurred to me that perhaps an interesting linked follow on from The Stair would be to publish on the blog an occasio...

Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Comment From Ruth Kaye (Blades)

Well done Fifi!

Sunday, 10 March 2013

CONGRATULATIONS To Fiona Blades!

Many congratulations to Fiona Blades who's added an M.A. with merit to her qualifications-brilliant news about one of the original memb...

Saturday, 2 March 2013

Comments From Ruth Kaye(Blades) And Peter Hoffmann

Comment From Ruth Kaye (Blades): Thanks for the photies Peter I appreciate them. I have another friend in Scotland whom I am jealous of as ...

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Index

I've made an initial start on putting together a much needed index (See left, LABELS )-I'll update further in the coming weeks!

Monday, 18 February 2013

Comment From Ruth Kaye (Blades)/Response From Peter Hoffmann

Comment From Ruth Kaye (Blades): I too am missing the blog and makes me realise that you should keep a diary you forget so many things and ...

Wednesday, 13 February 2013

Comment From Sandy Shaw

Comment: I like your blog post. Keep on writing this type of great stuff. I'll make sure to follow up on your blog in the future. Locks...

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

NEEEP!-Bonus Post From Douglas Blades On Bus Crash At Oxgangs!

Peter, Looked at BLOG tonight. Front page was Aug 2012 and mentioning the bus which toppled over. It was Leyand PD3 with Alexander bod...

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