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Penicuik photos

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Penicuik maps

Historic maps of Penicuik and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Penicuik maps

Scotland map

Historic map of Scotland

Midlothian map

Illustrated Victorian map of Midlothian

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Penicuik books

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Edinburgh Photographic Memories
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Memories of Penicuik

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Midlothian memories

Great-great-grandparents

My great-great-grandmother and grandfather lived in Princess Street. He was a dentist, his name was Alexander Spalding Watson and his wife was Sarah Watson, they later moved to London to St Martin's in the Field, by Trafalgar Square. These photo are great as we can see how and where they lived.

Shared on 08 August 2009 by Joanne Vernalls.

Great-great-grandfather lived here

My great-great-grandfather lived here at Shoemakers Close, and my great-grandfather David Hay with his mother, Helen Millie.  My great-grandfather was a shoemaker, as was his son John Millie. My great-grandfather died June 19th 1863, he was ageed 70 years, a good age at that time. My husband, who was born in 1932, was born just across the road from the Canongate... [more]

Shared on 06 April 2009 by Cath Tuff.

St James Church, Leith,  Edinburgh EH6

I now live in Houston, Texas, USA. My birth certificate has a written record of my being baptized in St James Church in Leith, but I cannot find any record of the church, which was near Gt Junction Street, Leith. Thanks. Morty Grant, born in Lapicide Place, Leith.

Shared on 01 June 2008 by Morton Grant.

grandfathers birthplace

never saw him

Shared on 09 May 2008 by John Dunn.

My father was a Drummer Boy

My father was a Drummer Boy in Edinburgh Castle when he was 14 in 1915. He threw the sergeant's false teeth out of the window by mistake, he thought it was just a cup of water. But next day when the sergeant picked up the cup and said where's my ---------- teeth , he knew. He did not own up. A... [more]

Shared on 21 February 2008 by Eddie Tait.

My father was a drummer boy

My father was a drummer boy in Edinburgh Castle when he was 14 in 1915.

Shared on 02 June 2007 by Eddie Tait.

My mothers birthplace

Mine is not a personal memory but Uphall Station was the birthplace of my mother. Mum was born on the 29th of April 1924. Her parents were Hugh and Annie Campbell ( nee Mooney ). My grandparents and Mum immigrated to New Zealand in 1925. I am intending to visit Scotland in the next couple of years and will be visiting... [more]

Shared on 15 June 2008 by Jill Alexander.

my father

My dad worked on the Forth Railway bridge since I was little girl and I can always remember him going to work six days a week in all weathers, I wonder does any one remember him, his name was David Wotherspoon Scott and was married to Dorothy Scott. I also wonder does any one actually think about what it was like... [more]

Shared on 14 November 2006 by Karen Hood.

Extracts From Penicuik & Midlothian books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Penicuik, inspired by Frith photos.

Edinburgh Photographic Memories

The chapel is famed for its pillar of entwined ribbands. The story is that the chief stonemason went to Italy to study a similar pillar. While he was away, his apprentice worked out how to construct the pillar after having a dream and built it. On his return, the mason was so jealous of his apprentice's work that he struck the... [more]

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Edinburgh Photographic Memories

The River Almond flows from Blackburn to the three towns of East, Mid and West Calder. It was at Mid Calder in 1556 that John Knox first administered Communion according to Protestant rites.

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Edinburgh Photographic Memories

The precinct is typical of a style that dominated redevelopment and new town schemes of the late 1950s and 1960s. Examples can be seen throughout the UK, many of them now looking the worse for wear.

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