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, 24 October 2018

Veitch the Coalman

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The Coalman  Throughout the 1960s the source of heating and hot water in each house in  The Stair  was the small open fire in the s...
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Sunday, 21 October 2018

Whit, nae Sunday Post!

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How many families didn't read The Sunday Post in the 1960s? For many years we didn't buy a copy of  The Sunday Post,  but read ...
Tuesday, 2 October 2018

Memories of Comiston House by Edmund Raphael; Allan Dunnett and Kate Dubb

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Comiston House by Edmund Raphael circa 1951 The under noted memories of Comiston House were posted a few years back between 201...

The White Lady

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During the 1960s t he ghost of the White Lady was reported to have been seen by school pupils closeby to the old school grounds n...
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Wednesday, 19 September 2018

No Pedlars, Hawkers or Salesmen

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When I was doing my early morning paper run for Bairds Newsagents a door plate which I saw at a house in Morningside read  No pedlars, hawke...
Tuesday, 11 September 2018

The Wednesday Profile #7 Ben Mackenzie, Hairdresser

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When do you know you've  really  made it as a businessman?  In the days leading up to the start of the new school term in August a...
Saturday, 8 September 2018

The Sunday Post #7 We Plough The Fields And Scatter - The Harvest Festival

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Was it the poorest giving to the poor? 'The Harvest Moon', Peter Hoffmann, 2008 At this time of the seasonal year in the ...
Friday, 7 September 2018

The Wednesday Profile #6 Bobbie's Bookshop

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Photograph, Catherine Stevenson Bobbie's Bookshop  was situated at 181 Dalry Road for over thirty five years. The shop sold sc...

The Wednesday Profile #7 Mr Forgan; Sandra Catterson and Mrs Davidson

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For all the years I recall living in Oxgangs between 1958 to 1972 and beyon...
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