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)

Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Comment From Eric Mullen Re: Moon River, Andy Williams Post 27 September 2012

I seem to remember Andy Williams visiting St Marks Church around about 1980 - I don't know why he would have done this but maybe I ...

Friday, 25 October 2013

For Whom The Bell Tolls Number Two-Comments and a Response

Comment From Alan Brown: Hi Peter, I was christened at St John's by the Rev Orr in 1967. I have a photo of me with my parents, brother ...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013

For Whom The Bell Tolls-Number Two

One of the loveliest memories of living at Oxgangs between 1958 and 1972 was the sweet sound of the St John's Church bells which ra...

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Dr Motley-An Update

Whilst editing The Stair into a book format (1 October, 2013) I came across the following extract from the Lincoln University Centenn...

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...

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