So many memories of the auld place. Streets that could tell tales.
@zenersmytok36197 күн бұрын
Interesting sights, and nice music too.
@paulstewart629320 күн бұрын
It looks like a miserable cold place. Like Paisley. Paisley is still shite how is Leith now?
@user-kz4jp5ks2n29 күн бұрын
Brilliant so many memories happy days .
@user-kz4jp5ks2nАй бұрын
Great pictures of young leith children sadley bare foot but tough and look happy enough . so glad we can appreciate them and the camera being invented .noticed afew pictures have been edited, fascinated by the girl pictured who was she I wonder .thanks
@dollybearzz84012 ай бұрын
Can anyone who knows Leith tell me if Portland Place is shown in any part of this video please?
@thesource51532 ай бұрын
That was real poverty.
@guitar59man4 ай бұрын
The photo at 2:37 brought back memories. In the early sixties, I was a member of the East of Scotland Clarion cycling club based in the Kirkgate. Our clubrooms were directly above Burton the Tailor. That property is long gone but, at least, Trinity House is still standing.
@stephenswistchew77205 ай бұрын
A lot of kids with nae shoes oan I noticed
@rosshendry85896 ай бұрын
😢 family all leithers iwas born ferrier street leith more like London now no leathers left all churches are now mosques mostly docks are gone all posh flats n bistro pubs for tourists while Eastern Europeans or Middle Eastern peeps live there kirkgate just a state charity shops lidls or chemists for junkies the place a shithole I left ain't my town no more ganghut but thanks for the old memories was better back then 😮😢😢😢❤
@davidnichol62826 ай бұрын
Some kids with no shoes i looked at the date of video before the welfare state had started less we forget.
@user-go2st5fi9w8 ай бұрын
Thank you from an American.
@nataliakomarova70088 ай бұрын
A lot of children. They are the age of my parents.
@nataliakomarova700811 ай бұрын
Precious photos !!!! Thank you for your work !!!!
@nataliakomarova700811 ай бұрын
Lovely photos !!! There is magic !!! Smiling faces of people so sweet !!!!
@rodrigofuentes3491 Жыл бұрын
What a proud to wear a tartan ! I'm mexican, but I'm in love all about scottish ! I would like to be one !
@violettruthseekermrsirvine5473 Жыл бұрын
2.29 The girl looking out of the broken window frame fascinates me and what life brought her.
@colinamwilliamson Жыл бұрын
How many people will remember in fifty years that we had trams the twenties?
@stevet2401 Жыл бұрын
What is the earliest photo of Easter Road Stadium?
@robertallan4916 Жыл бұрын
I love it. I wonder if, as a community, we could buy the land in front of the houses/offices at the Foot of the Walk and make it a community space in an urban setting where pedestrians rule...
@mariainesgonzalezpereyra Жыл бұрын
Me encantó. ♡
@AS-Pra1.0 Жыл бұрын
I'm a Mcintosh through my mother and grandmother so interesting
@creolelady182 Жыл бұрын
Finlayson
@dickturpin435 Жыл бұрын
I was at school with classmates like that. They took it away and gave us, 'A better life.' 'New lamps for old..'
@jspin11032 жыл бұрын
Makes me wish I was Scottish, sort of.
@omarassemujjuadrian45922 жыл бұрын
Absolutely beautiful ❤️ thank you ❤️🥰😍🙏
@lisadixon58862 жыл бұрын
Haunting faces, love the music, what is it, does anyone know?
@beachrose882 жыл бұрын
Where is it. What country
@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess2 жыл бұрын
Scotland :)
@margaretgreen6962 Жыл бұрын
Leith, Scotland
@thomasmorin7492 жыл бұрын
Leith nowadays is like living in a foreign country.
@nancybrouse50702 жыл бұрын
Depressing. You can tell this is after the reset when the parasites took over.
@marysdaughter77702 жыл бұрын
Keep history alive..these pictures speak a thousand words..this is my ma and Das Era..they sprung from Glasgow tenements ..tough rough strong salt of the earth people..hard life's...these children lived through depressions wars ..hunger..extreme cold..still beautiful smiling faces...
@rachelskilling54142 жыл бұрын
Love this! How touching …these people in our neighbourhood (not even so long ago) had it pretty tough by the looks but they stuck together and were just getting on with it and smiling too ❤️
@omarassemujjuadrian45922 жыл бұрын
👍❤️🙏
@maple12552 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the excellent photographs parts one and two from Leith, some exceptional images, you choice of music complements so well.
@susannaude85142 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! Thank you. I also love the music and would love to know the title and pianist, please.
@1aberbeeg2 жыл бұрын
So many little ones with no shoes, hope their lives improved when older, though hardly likely given such hard times.
@samcolt10792 жыл бұрын
WILL PEOPLE WATCH OUR FILMS JUST LIKE WE WATCH THESE? WE WILL NEVER KNOW
@jeremyfielding23332 жыл бұрын
No. Nowadays everyone is a 'photographer', it has become commonplace and mediocre.
@MadderMel2 жыл бұрын
Thanks ! I really enjoyed this !
@MadderMel2 жыл бұрын
Some people back then were so poor and couldn't afford shoes , my stepdad who died a few years ago at 94 years of age , told me that when he was growing up he was so poor he used to pick up snails to eat them ? I could never fathom out if he was serious or just joking .
@heathsavage48522 жыл бұрын
I lived in Kirk Street at the foot of the walk for nearly ten years.
@jimkerr18735 ай бұрын
I lived at 44 Kirk Street when I was a kid, went to Bonnington Road Primary School the Leith Academy Secondary.
@firedoc52 жыл бұрын
My family line is from Ferguson, Campbell, and Bruce for the most part. A lot of Scot and Ulster-Scots. The Fergusons came over in the mid-1850's.
@lonarenwick3852 жыл бұрын
I am from the McKay clan.
@shaunwarburton59742 жыл бұрын
This must be the white privilege that the blacks are always going on about?
@EdinburghVideos2 жыл бұрын
Born in Leith, i still live here. It's a very different place now and not all in a good way. I preferred the old Leith.
@minkgin33702 жыл бұрын
Can anyone tell me what was £285 on that poster on the shop corner. What on earth could have cost that much around there then ?
@ianrtait5721 Жыл бұрын
I am with you. Born in St Andrews Street in 1954. Lived in the same tenements in the clips. Great times.
@N.A.S101 Жыл бұрын
Yes a fellow scot.
@EdinburghVideos9 ай бұрын
@@minkgin3370 I've zoomed in as much as i can and it's an advert for (i think) boxing and football competitions with a total of £285 in prizes.
@grantray47892 жыл бұрын
Good video.
@11712 жыл бұрын
I am , found to be the 22 great granddaughter of Sir John of Elderslie and he’s the brother of William Braveheart Wallace! I don’t know my tartan. I was so happy to know I was a descendant of Braveheart! Then I knew why I was tall and felt like swinging a broadsword and that I am committed to doing what I believe in. DNA 🧬 even that far is what makes us who we are. I love the idea perhaps I can go to see Scotland.
@jspin11032 жыл бұрын
I hope you don’t think that movie was a true story. It’s about as real as gladiator was. Just saying…
@johnboy95182 жыл бұрын
Not true most tartans werent invented till 1800s, lowland families traditionally didnt have kilts and are only called clans due to an act of parliment
@andyleighton69692 жыл бұрын
Half of Scotland's economy is based on tenth generation Americans calling themselves "Scottish" and looking to be Chief of the Clan McFake, don't upset the applecart. You can wear any fancy dress you like, but personally I reckon your "heritage" wears out with your ability to play sport for that particular nation.
@johnboy95182 жыл бұрын
@@andyleighton6969 its hard to deny them though when our own government completely ignores thats scots are indigenous and now we have to accept africans and asians as new scots, but not americans with actual ancestory
@sandersson28132 жыл бұрын
Used to like wearing a kilt, but dont anymore due to the hijacking of tartan by the SNP
@richardlove42872 жыл бұрын
Lol, family tartan was invented and romanticised by Queen Victoria. Before this we all just wore whatever was cheapest.
@douglasfraser20892 жыл бұрын
So Amazing! My father's side is Fraser and my mother's Graham. Just love being born in Scotland