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Category "Daily Life"

Found 4811 memories
Graffiti 1994

Graffiti 1994

Series of graffiti amongst buildings of the Lon...
Young Child With Teddy Bear 1948

Young Child With Teddy Bear 1948

Rosalind Rattray. Donor number: 0045-009
Horseman busker on Princes Street

Horseman busker on Princes Street

A drumming busker entertains passersby on Princ...
Liston & Brown Fishmongers

Liston & Brown Fishmongers

My Great Auntie Cissie (Elizabeth Lyle) standin...
Great Great Auntie Euphemia (Phemie) Liston

Great Great Auntie Euphemia (Phemie) Liston

One of the last Newhaven fishwives to carry a c...
Elizabeth Lyle (Cissie) at Liston & Brown's Fishmongers, Slateford Road

Elizabeth Lyle (Cissie) at Liston & Brown's Fishmongers, Slateford Road

Great Auntie Cissie hated working in the fishmo...
The Lyles at Newhaven Harbour

The Lyles at Newhaven Harbour

This is a picture of my Great Grandmother Ann L...
Beside Newhaven seawall

Beside Newhaven seawall

Barbara Johnston Lyle (left) and William Liston...
Fishwives in costume

Fishwives in costume

My Great Aunt Barbara Lyle (left) and Euphemia...
Euphemia Liston

Euphemia Liston

Phemie stands in her fishwife's costume near th...
Granny in fishwife's costume

Granny in fishwife's costume

The interesting thing about this photo is that ...
Henry Robb Shipyard, Leith

Henry Robb Shipyard, Leith

My Dad, John Lyle, was an apprentice joiner at...
Phemie Liston in her fishwives working clothes

Phemie Liston in her fishwives working clothes

Phemie in the middle is wearing her everyday fi...
Great Grandfather on Leith Merchant Navy Ship during WW1

Great Grandfather on Leith Merchant Navy Ship during WW1

As well as being a trawler skipper my Great Gra...
Princes Street stroll

Princes Street stroll

My Great Uncle Bill strolls along Princes Stree...
Ploughing at Liberton Tower Mains

Ploughing at Liberton Tower Mains

Incredible to think that this is Edinburgh and ...
Knifer-grinders cart, Bruntsfield

Knifer-grinders cart, Bruntsfield

Just one of the people who made their living go...
Completed Kitbags

Completed Kitbags

These are the final kitbags prepared by the ste...
Morrison Street

Morrison Street

Old houses on Morrison Street, How its changed!
Queue of buses on Waverley Bridge

Queue of buses on Waverley Bridge

Love the bus driver's uniforms, they looked so ...
Great Granny's house at Stockbridge

Great Granny's house at Stockbridge

I love this picture of my Great Granny with my ...
Grassmarket

Grassmarket

The inns of the Grassmarket, looks very much as...
Burst waterpipe in the Lawnmarket

Burst waterpipe in the Lawnmarket

Dramatic events in the lawnmarket!
Kitbag Project Group visit to the War Poets Collection

Kitbag Project Group visit to the War Poets Collection

The group visited the War Poets Collection at N...
Assembling the Kitbags

Assembling the Kitbags

Euan and Sarah from the project group working w...
Training Trenches at Dreghorn

Training Trenches at Dreghorn

The project group took a trip to explore the tr...
Trenches kitbag

Trenches kitbag

This is the smaller trench kitbag contained in ...
Unpacking the Kitbags

Unpacking the Kitbags

The project group met with teachers from the sc...
Generating ideas from the kitbags

Generating ideas from the kitbags

Staff from Balerno Community High School discus...
A Weekend at Raeburn Place

A Weekend at Raeburn Place

This photo was taken at the first game of The C...