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)

Tuesday, 3 September 2019

Follow That Dream - The Oxgangs Broadway Pioneers

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'Mary (Ball) at the Broadway' When you are young you accept the world as it is. And that it must always have been thus. From...
Sunday, 28 July 2019

Happy Birthday and the Positive Power of Facebook

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Exactly one year ago today (27 July 2019) the Facebook page, Oxgangs – A Pastime From Timepast was formed and today’s group page photog...
Tuesday, 11 June 2019

Hunters Tryst School Sports Day

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Hunters Tryst did School Sports Day proud. It was always superbly organised, very well attended and presented with a sense of...
Sunday, 19 May 2019

In The (Oxgangs) Season of the Year - Victoria Day

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Victoria Day is a public holiday in some parts of east Scotland, chiefly the cities of Edinburgh and Dundee although it was formerly ...
Wednesday, 8 May 2019

Tall Tales Number 2

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On Tuesday, 8th May, 1971, at Boroughmuir School a class mate called Andy Downie walked past me and said 'Peter, I see you've a ...
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Monday, 4 March 2019

TO THE PENTLAND HILLS from Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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The country people call it General Kay's monument.  According to them, an officer of that name had perished there in battle at...
Wednesday, 27 February 2019

A Capital Tale

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A Capital Story - The Family Story is the story of an ordinary Edinburgh family as it is played out over a quarter of a century between...
Monday, 24 December 2018

An Edinburgh 1960s Christmas Day

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Christmas Day was rather like Sundays, only quieter. We saw very little of what went on in the rest of the Stair  because ou...
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