Help with Edinburgh please?

[MonicaL]

Hi Sammyjones

Welcome to RootsChat 

Given the years you are looking at, there is little you can find online due to privacy/data protection issues.

You have a very specific piece of info there. By chance, is it connected to a birth perhaps?

Don't know where you are based. If you, and able to access in person (or someone for me), I would be looking initially at valuation or electoral rolls for that address. Also too post office directories may give you some info and details.

Monica

Added: This is a link to an early 1940s PO Directory by surname https://archive.org/stream/postofficeedin194041edin#page/320/mode/2up  Not everyone appeared in it though.

[MonicaL]

One more thing to consider.... The surname of McLelland is likely to have a number of spelling variations. Where you can, good to consider other spellings. For example (and there are more) McClelland.

Monica

[Forfarian]

One more thing to consider.... The surname of McLelland is likely to have a number of spelling variations. Where you can, good to consider other spellings. For example (and there are more) McClelland.

M(a)cLellan, M(a)cLennan too!

Coincidentally, I have just been looking into an Andrew Storie. I found him in both 1841 and 1851 at 12 Broughton Place, and that is where he died in 1862.

[tidybooks]

Hi all,

Nice article that shows views from Salisbury Craigs to the Dumbiedykes, before and after redevelopment. Salisbury Street is in the first picture.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01i3x/

Tom

[MonicaL]

Tom, certainly razed to the ground the area! Great first photo. I saw a snippet from the Glasgow Herald 1971 which referred to Salisbury Street in Edinburgh (some criminal proceedings) so still around (just!) then.

Monica

[tidybooks]

Hi Monica,

Yes, it could be the 70's, I worked with Post Office Telephones (forerunner to BT) in the Edinburgh area from 1964, and we used the Pleasance as a shortcut to beat the traffic the North Bridge and Nicholson Street. I can remember the work being done and it may have been the early 70's.

Found some photos of Salisbury Street and Salisbury Square, taken in 1959, there is one photo showing the Salisbury Crags from the square, is very dramatic.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01i40/


Tom

[MonicaL]

Well found, Tom. Great collection of photos there of the street.

Monica