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kenspeckle
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Lost Edinburgh

Post by kenspeckle » Thu Aug 18, 2011 3:28 am

There is a new facebook page with some wonderful images of Edinburgh (some of the best I have ever seen all in one place )

http://www.facebook.com/lostedinburgh

be nice to get a lost Glasgow one as well!

regards to all Lesley in Tasmania
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Re: Lost Edinburgh

Post by hg » Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:59 am

This is a fantastic page Lesley. Have spent hours going through the photos, found one of my Granny's backgreen and a painting of a family home in fountainbridge which brought back many lovely memories.

thanks

Helen
researching Glacken, in Edinburgh and Glasgow and Ireland, McCartney and McAnally in Glasgow, Belli in Italy and Edinburgh, O'farrel in Tyrone and edinburgh, Mchendrie, Dawson and Findlay from Banff then Edinburgh, Main in Edinburgh. Mcdonald.

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Re: Lost Edinburgh

Post by AndrewP » Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:11 am

Just lost an hour looking at the photos there. :D

All the best,

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Re: Lost Edinburgh

Post by kenspeckle » Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:43 pm

I am really enjoying the images My GGGs owned hansom cab's in Edinburgh & My Grannie said they worked from a rank in Princes St ....so to see some photos showing the long line of hansom cabs was great
the other web site I visit from time to time is
http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_edin/1_ed ... ions_0.htm

and here is my mystery photo

http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_P/0_photo ... ildren.htm

its the Wilkies and I think going by other photos I have and how they look
its Alexander in the pram b 1882 Eliza b 1879 on the left & Mary Ann b 1877 on the right

regards Lesley in Tasmania
researching : Roddick, Stewart, Combe,Lyle , Wilkie, Budge, Kirkwood,Howat, McKinlay, Gunning, Gumprecht, Mirrlees, Muckersie, Greig, Moncrieff, Pattison, Hornibrook, Teape, Brockhoff,Buchanan,

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Re: Lost Edinburgh

Post by Hibee » Sat Aug 20, 2011 6:51 pm

Lost Edinburgh has just disappeared from Facebook. Nothing sinister, I hope.

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Re: Lost Edinburgh

Post by Tracey » Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:31 pm

Thank you Hibee i was getting a bit frustrated at having no luck. The link takes me to my facebook page and inputting the link wasnt bringing back anything like what is being described.
Scotland - Donaldson / Moggach / Shaw / Geddes / Sim / Gray / Mackie / Richards / Joel / Coull / Mckimmie / Panton / McGregor
Ireland and Scotland - Casey / McDade / Phillips / McCandle / Dinely / Comaskey + various spellings

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Re: Lost Edinburgh

Post by Hibee » Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:07 am

My two guesses:

1) there had been complaints about copyright violation regarding many of the pics, and the page owners have removed it, temporarily, to tidy this up;

2) they have realised, with over 20,000 followers in the space of a few days, that they might have hit upon a money-making idea, and are now having a good think about it.

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Re: Lost Edinburgh

Post by kenspeckle » Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:58 am

There is a book Lost Edinburgh by Hamish Goghill 2004 possibly its title derived from Lost Glasgow by Carol Foreman 2002
which could be a problem. They did have a photographer advising them about possible issues with photographs, and they had credited Edinphoto and a couple of other places

pretty sure they are not in it for the money... The Scotsman ran an article on the page so it may have arisen from that ...... Though I read that book titles can NOT be copyrighted

I have seen some forums that run on the same sort of thing lots of photos of derlict buildings or graveyards all done just for the love of it

Lesley
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Re: Lost Edinburgh

Post by kenspeckle » Sun Aug 21, 2011 11:03 am

Just read the Scotmans article feedback
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/feature ... 6821607.jp
researching : Roddick, Stewart, Combe,Lyle , Wilkie, Budge, Kirkwood,Howat, McKinlay, Gunning, Gumprecht, Mirrlees, Muckersie, Greig, Moncrieff, Pattison, Hornibrook, Teape, Brockhoff,Buchanan,

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Re: Lost Edinburgh

Post by Hibee » Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:56 pm

Search for "What happened to the "Lost Edinburgh" page?"

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