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More about the residents Click on the pictures
below to learn more about their lives. Each person made a photo collage of pictures to
tell a life story.
(l-r) Gladys, Jean, Isabel, Maggie
The local area has
changed a lot. In those days, we had lots of shops. We had an egg shop that sold nothing
else but eggs, and then we had Starks, and they used to sell very, very good butter. Then
we had a skeekin shop down the Canongate. We had a chip shop and they sold peas and
vinegar. And we had a lovely big baker's on each side of the road at Dunbar's Close there
- and then there was another shop that sold coal and briquettes. Then where Huntly House
is now, that was the pub. All the men would go in there and they would come out at night -
there was never a carry-on or fighting in those days - just all friendly men like family.
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Whose shopping list would you like to read?
Boy
Seamstress
Woman
Man
Sweeties
"We had so many different shops in the Canongate - really - we were very lucky. We had a good fish shop as well and we had the Cooperative Store that sold everything. I don't know what's happened to all these shops - it's the high rents - they can't afford it. Now the shop down the Canongate is going to be another kilt shop!!!! They should have it as a supermarket. And then Mary MacArthur had the chip shop at the foot of the Canongate . They were hingin' in grease, but you still ate them they were lovely!! Mary McArthur sold everything - cooked meats, briquettes, sugar, chips, everything. Where Clarinda's is now, then there was the dairy. The dairy was opposite Dunbar's Close and you got your milk there in glass bottles or in a pitcher, which you took to get filled up" |
