AB64 Posted 10 August , 2006 Share Posted 10 August , 2006 Can Anyone tell me what the local paper would have been for the Haymarket area of Edinburgh and where archives are kept? also where are the war memorials for the area? I'm trying to get more info on a casualty and hopefully a picture of his name on the memorial, he was from Orwell Terrace just off Dalry Road. Thanks in advance Alistair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxy Posted 10 August , 2006 Share Posted 10 August , 2006 I would have thought the Edinburgh Evening News or The Scotsman (part of the same group, I think). I had a quick look at the internet site but couldn't find much. My lot are from just up Morrison Street. Just found the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch. Good luck. Roxy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted 10 August , 2006 Share Posted 10 August , 2006 Edinburgh Evening Despatch are in the Scottish National Library in GIV Bridge and there may be some info in Edinburgh Central Library also GIV Bridge Edinburgh Room. Aye Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMcNay Posted 14 August , 2006 Share Posted 14 August , 2006 I used to live in Orwell Terrace... Best place I can think of is the libraries that Malcolm has mentioned. Apparently Edinburgh Council threw out the City Roll of Honour a few years ago.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KF Kelly Posted 14 August , 2006 Share Posted 14 August , 2006 This is a small world, I lived on Orwell Terrace (No 9) until my parents moved in 1976. There are 2 local schools, Dalry School in Dalry Road (which I'm fairly sure is still in existence) and Orwell School in Orwell Place. Maybe your soldier attended one of these as a child. There was a church in Orwell Terrace, St Bride's, it must have had a memorial. The building is still there but no longer a church. Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted 14 August , 2006 Share Posted 14 August , 2006 Apparently Edinburgh Council threw out the City Roll of Honour a few years ago.... Don't get me ..................... started!!! Aye Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted 14 August , 2006 Share Posted 14 August , 2006 St Brides is now a theatre, full of Festival Fringe people at the moment but.. it belongs to Edinburgh Council.... you know, the ones who threw out the RoH. The War Memorial may have been saved by the Church people before the sale. Church of Scotland 121, George Street may know. Aye Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo Posted 14 August , 2006 Share Posted 14 August , 2006 The Scotsman's archives back to 1817 are available on its website for a fee. Bear in mind when doing a search that 'Haymarket War Memorial' may well bring up the memorial to Hearts players & supporters rather than one to local men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KF Kelly Posted 14 August , 2006 Share Posted 14 August , 2006 This has got me remembering the dim and distant past. There used to be church in Caledonian Crescent, up the road from Dalry Baths and another by Dalry School. If the soldier was an RC then the parish churches would be further away. What was the man's name? Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB64 Posted 14 August , 2006 Author Share Posted 14 August , 2006 Talk about a small world, the casualty I am looking up was from Orwell Terrace, do you recall a family their called Anderson? I thin ktheir address was Upper Terrace or something like that. Alistair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KF Kelly Posted 14 August , 2006 Share Posted 14 August , 2006 Sorry, I have no recollection of a family of that name. As far as I can remember, the Terrace was never divided into upper or lower, it was simply numbered. Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost in Tilloy Posted 14 August , 2006 Share Posted 14 August , 2006 Guys There use to be a Baptist Church on Dalry Road also. The building was a rather large and impossing one with a huge spire. The Baptists took it over in early 1916 I think. The Church eventually merged with a Baptist Church in Stenhouse. The Church building was knocked down and flats built in its place. I'm currently trying to locate and research all of the Edinburgh Baptist Great War memorials. If you give me the name you're interested in I'll watch it for it when I discover the whereabouts of the old Gorgie Baptist memorial. Regards LIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnr.ktrha Posted 14 August , 2006 Share Posted 14 August , 2006 Hello, I have bound Volumes of the Edinburgh evening news for- 2nd Half 1914, 2nd half 1915, all of 1917 and 1918. I am more than happy to have a search through them for you, if you give more datails on the casualty and date of death etc. Regards, Stewart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB64 Posted 14 August , 2006 Author Share Posted 14 August , 2006 First of all I better admit my question relate to an off topic soldier, he was killed in WW2 rather than WW1, but with the knowledge on this forum I knew I would be more likely to get help here than elsewhere and the papers and memorials would overlap. Apologies for this. The soldier in question was Sapper Lennox Tod Anderson 1886002 of 261 (Airborne) Field Park Coy RE, who was killed during the evacuation at Arnhem - he was a Presbyterian - and his fathers address (which I guess was also his) was 11 Orwell Terrace - top flat, so Kevin very close. Alistair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted 14 August , 2006 Share Posted 14 August , 2006 St Brides is here http://www.stbrides.edin.org/info.htm Aye Malcolm ps. Details Surname ANDERSON Firstname Lennox T Service number 1086002 Date of death 25/09/1944 Decoration Place of birth Edinburgh Other SNWM roll ROYAL ENGINEERS Rank Spr Theatre of death Western Europe Campaign, 1944-45. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KF Kelly Posted 15 August , 2006 Share Posted 15 August , 2006 Orwell Terrace is a tenement row, and 9 was next to 11. There were 16 flats, I think, per block. So quite close. To get back slightly onto a relevant topic, when I was growing up our neighbour who lived upstairs, a Mr David Johnstone, served in Palestine in 1917. I regret now never having found out more about him. We still have somewhere a book he won at St Bride's church in 1910 or 12 for religious knowledge. Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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