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Update-Can u help with a photo from early 30's-Where and Why

Post by grannysrock » Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:59 pm

Good evening

I have scanned a photo of a group of young persons, including my grandfather and his two pals who appear on just about every photo of him from his teens till his 30's .

http://salhun.100webcustomers.com/ManyYoungPeople.jpg

I guess the photo to be early 30's given that my grandfather can't be more than 25 I think on this picture. By the late 30's his hair was already thinning ....

In his young days , my grandfather lived in Leith .

I believe he attended Trinity Academy. I did wonder if the half-visible badges on two of the blazers might be the emblem of Trinity, and several of the people are wearing stripey ties.

There are several people wearing small badges that put me in mind of the Boys Brigade. However two on the right look more like scouts.

There are three girls in the picture. I'm not sure they are wearing skirts - perhaps plus twos/Fours ( I don't know which is which :?: ) .

The only pastime I know for definite that my grandfather enjoyed was Golf.

I would appreciate any ideas on where this photo was taken and what the occasion might have been ?

Sally
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Post by emanday » Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:46 pm

Can't help thinking that their mode of dress would not have been appreciated on a golf course in that era.

Looks more like a shooting party to me.
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Post by grannysrock » Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:24 pm

Thanks Mary,
I'll see if shooting rings a bell with anyone. I've spent some time trying to match the front of the building with photographs of buildings in Leith. Unsuccesfully of oourse. Knowing my luck this wasn't taken in Edinburgh/Leith area at all - it was probably a day trip to Brigadoon to hunt haggis. :!:
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Post by emanday » Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:30 pm

it was probably a day trip to Brigadoon to hunt haggis.
Not a chance, Sally! Haggis are far too canny to risk going to Brigadoon. The very though of haggis only being huntable once every hundred years! Doesn't bear thinking about :shock:
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Post by Russell » Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:38 pm

Hi Sally

There is insufficient view of the rest of the building to do more than guess and two pillars on a low portico matches probably dozens of others.
Since some of the lads at the back are wearing blazers I wondered if it was either a senior school party or a university group. Only two of them have the fleur-de-lis blazer badge and the other small badges are quite varied. The edinphoto site had a photo where some of the boys had the Trinity cap badge and these badges didin't look like it.
The guy with the pipe certainly looks like a teacher or lecturer.
I wondered if it was a university sports club since some young men are in shorts and the three girls seem at ease with their situation.

Its a puzzler :!:

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Post by grannysrock » Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:14 pm

Russell
I was told my grandfather left school at 14 - he was a graduate of the University of Life ! But a sport's club is a very good suggestion . My father thought that they looked like a cycling club, but wasn't actually aware of his father cycling.
My grandfather was an electrician, and of his two known pals in the photo, one was an ironmonger and the other a clerk (I think) I think this makes it less likely that this was a work related club/gathering. But I read somewhere that there was a bowling club at Miller's foundry in London Road which is where his father( ie my great granfather) worked . and I've just remembered -I have also scanned pictures of my grandfather and his 2 pals bowling !! ( Appeared to be the time they went to Aberdeen not Blackpool - see an embarrassing earlier post by me ) What would young bowlers look like ?

Mary, I am committed to haggis preservation - they would be much safer in Brigadoon than Leith. The lack of mountainous terrain in the latter place coupled with the famous difference in lengths of their right and left legs, means that they would only be able to run in small circles till they inevitably fell off Newhaven pier like half of my ancestors did ( or perhaps they all went to Brigadoon too ) .
Now I've really lost it .... :oops:

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Post by Russell » Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:27 pm

Hi Sally

Some people met the University of Life by degrees; others were thrown in at the deep end. :(

So we have ruled out haggis shooting & school sports club.
Bowlers would be fully kitted out in dark blazers and white flannels. Ladies would definitely be in blazers and white pleated skirts. Both would have had special shoes to venture onto the bowling green - 'Can't damage the surface you know' :)
Plus fours were common attire in the thirties even for the non-sporty so Its the blokes in shorts we should maybe concentrate on. Unless it was a Works sports club where several different sports were played.

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Post by emanday » Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:45 am

Now I've really lost it ....
Not at all, Sally! A very valid point, if I may say so!

And with Russell's exalted position of President of the Save the Haggis Campaign, we are both in very good company :lol:
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Post by Muriel » Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:19 am

Hi Sally

I live not a million miles from Trinity Academy & know a number of Leithers. I'll print the photo off & take it to church on Sunday & see if anyone can suggest anything or anyone.

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Post by Davie » Thu Nov 16, 2006 11:51 am

Hi Sally
I love these old photographs.
On my machine the pic is a bit fuzzy.
However, I would go for a collage class as everyone looks about the same age.
Does the person third from the left, standing slightly behind the others look a bit older?
And I wonder if the people in the pic could use the word collage in the proper context.
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