Edinburgh 1936

[@MegaDeansy]

09:36 - Richmond Place - my Granny stayed at No.6, I've got many happy memories of being left with her - along with all my cousins - every Saturday as Mum and the Aunties went to Nicholson St/Princes St for that week's 'Big shop' !. Today I stay just a few yards away from there!

[@jacquelinehall3822]

I have really loved seeing Edinburgh from 1934 - 37.This is what my Dad would have seen with his own eyes of these times as he was born in 1929. Amazing to see Auld Reekie, love the action shots of the smokey city and so recognisable ... I know it so well it's fantastic too see it 'with different eyes' Thanks for sharing it. I'm old enough to recall that it was mostly black and white photos and TV. from the early 60's of my childhood.

[@GrahamMacdonald-w9o]

It was interesting to see that there were masses of people on the pavement on Princes Street even back then. There were also more cars than I expected, although seeing St Andrew's Square without any parking meters seemed a bit weird. It was interesting to see in a quick clip near the end where a car overtook a lorry that was struggling up the hill near the top of The Mound - an incline that wouldn't be too much trouble for any motorised vehicle today.

[@thebrunetteinroom7]

A million times better than the dive it has become today. If I could only go back in time ❤. I hate this present world

[@marylee3728]

lovely to see Auld reekie that was taken round about my very early years but like me it is wearing well

[@LittleSparrow.]

Scotland a Great country love from Kurds

[@boomtish4520]

I’m dead now but it’s good to see what edinburgh looked like when I was alive.

[@justclosing]

20 years later, I could have been in the film. Even in 50's the times where better than today.

[@noohoozfurra]

Utterly magnificent. What a brilliant record of a fascinating city...

[@EdinburghVideos]

I enjoyed watching that auld footage.

[@annastevenson2817]

The time when we thought everything would remain like this forever. Little did we know how things would change.

[@colintrainer1708]

Absolutely superb. Thanks to all who put the effort in getting this into new media for all to see.

[@williaminavanbottle9297]

Portobello open air swimming pool. Man! Everybody loved it. But they still went ahead and demolished it. Replaced by 5 aside football courts. What's there now...Memories of youth.

[@CaroleSandman]

Makes me want to go to Edinburgh to see it in color..😊

[@Justdisco2]

Edinburgh's town centre has changed that much, trams then, trams now.

[@peterfinnie263]

Thoroughly enjoyed the footage love to look back to old edinburgh fascinating changed so much and sometimes not for the better but we do live in a beautiful city love edinburgh

[@johnnyM809]

Brilliant footage

[@spangles365]

Great to see the Caledonian railway station i remember it from the 50's as a 6 year old.

[@janetramage2485]

This is one of the best I have seen of Edinburgh and I loved the music. I was born in 1937. I thought they did a fantastic job.

[@RM-lj8bv]

Wonderful. Sad that it's so expensive to rent property there.

[@nataliakomarova7008]

Absolutly lovely city !!! Love Edinburgh !!! People there are sunny !

[@unclephil440]

Fantastic footage, thanks for sharing.

[@cr7sensation]

Fabulous stuff! Thank you so much :)

[@neilbain8736]

I never thought I'd see this again. Newcastle got down among the punters and you see them milling about being typical unassuming people, so fascinating now, a brief cameo on the past in monochrome. You get the touristy stuff too, still here today in 3D colour real time for anyone to see. If the people look like they're bouncing around on speed, they are. It was filmed at 16 or 18 fps and this looks like 25. I know, I've shown the original often enough and was there the day it arrived 32 yrs ago.

[@neilbain8736]

Awww, bless youtube's little algorythmns. They just randomly threw this up again, 5 years later. One thing I do remember now is that the ECS had made their own Edinburgh film in 1947. It included scenes of the first ever Edinburgh Festival. It was in 16mm colour with optical sound. This would have been quite a technical achievement at no little cost back then.

[@markieboy1983]

Amazing!

[@ianmcsherry5254]

Very interesting. So much seen here is basically unchanged to this day, apart from the older buildings being cleaned up and restored in the post-soot era. Murrayfield Stadium and Tynecastle Park, of course, would now startle someone from 1936.

[@andrewwalker8382]

Not changed that much if I’m honest. The finest City I ever lived in.

[@passebastiani]

Loved it. Thanks.

[@Eddison548]

Not changed that much. These buildings look old back then. Amazing they were built to such a high standard that they are still standing today. The old world.

[@TheWhoever118]

Really annoyed to see tyncastle but no Easter road, i desperately wanted to see what easter road looked like in 1936

[@nthglasScotland]

Sorry. The music put me off. Very "twee". A shame as my late grandmother who was born & bred from Leith docks, was working as a silver service waitress at the Caledonian hotel & seconded to a munitions factory in England, in the second war. I still feel this is the "superior" hotel on Princes Street.

[@clonie9963]

Amazing

[@colbangers6336]

07:38 - my Grandfather lived at White Horse Close and would have been around the same age as these children. I wonder if one of the boys is him.

[@methtical06]

Love it 👌

[@alanbobbymcguire5099]

The present day Edinburgh city council are not fit for office.

[@arutha3251]

What's the music ?

[@thomashunter5707]

What football teams are playing

[@deelux19]

all I see now a days is an out break of chavs everywhere in town....I swear in this video Edinburgh town centre looks so much cleaner! :L

[@Brunette84]

Amazing footage. What year did they stop pouring shit and piss out their windows onto the streets? I'd love to know...

[@suomiscot3236]

We're waiting for you to arrive to resume the custom.

[@catherinegillard959]

Well said I thought the same thing.

[@jeffreynemitz8060]

I can almost smell the coal and the diesel In the air!

[@matthewpowell6516]

Princes street had hawkers on it even back then ho,ho.

[@wendylynch1443]

Ho ho are you Santa 🤶

[@ih8hertz1]

Most of our schemes weren't even built😅

[@jamboz]

This needs the colourised AI treatment. Still great though.

[@risenshine2783]

trams great

[@sellamisayah7625]

edin= Eden Burgh= tower

[@ianmcsherry5254]

Nope, Edin is an Anglicised version of Eidyn, which is an ancient Britonic word, origin unknown. A Burgh in Scotland is an incorporated town, by Royal charter, which is allowed to set its own legislation.

[@babuansari6349]

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