Fish Suppers & Bovril - No.5 in the series 'Old Photos of Scotland'
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- Опубліковано 14 лют 2023
- A look at a carefully chosen selection of photos of various ages, from Victorian times right up to the 1960s, to glimpse many aspects of the world of food and drink in Scotland, from production through retailing and ultimately consumption.
Along the way we will take a peek at Scotland's fishing industry, and the crucial role played by women in all Scottish fishing villages. And through a look at advertising we will glimpse the bottles and packaging of times past, and ponder the staying power of well-known brands like HP Sauce.
This is a look at a past way of life, when children were employed in factories and horses were killed when delivering lemonade; when men wore strange moustaches, and pies were packed in Brooke Bond Dividend Tea paper bags. The good old days.
This is Scotland's food and drink, fish suppers an' all.
IMPORTANT OMISSION:
To my utter horror, on looking at the finished uploaded video, I have discovered that I've forgotten to put the photo index in place. This would tell you where each numbered photo has come from. How I could forget such a thing I simply do not know as I had created that very image ready to add. So, here are the necessary details. The red number that I have added at the bottom left of each photo is the key to where to find the original unedited photo. Please accept my apologies.
PHOTO LOCATION INDEX
18,32,33 - www.canmore.org.uk (HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT SCOTLAND)
9,10,15,16,21,23,24,27,28 - www.theglasgowstory.com (THE GLASGOW STORY)
2,3,11,12,13,17,25 - www.collections.falkirk.gov.uk/explore (FALKIRK COUNCIL)
1,14,22,29,30,31 - www.capitalcollections.org.uk (CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL - LIBRARIES)
4,5,6,7,8,19,20,26 - www.nationalgalleries.org (NATIONAL GALLERIES SCOTLAND)
IMPORTANT OMMISION - To my utter horror, on looking at the finished uploaded video, I have discovered that I've forgotten to put the photo index in place. This would tell you where each numbered photo has come from. How I could forget such a thing I simply do not know as I had created that very image ready to add. I have therefore added that information to the text details that accompany the video. Please accept my apologies.
Now that's some crackin' photos. Glad I found your uploads. CDN with great grand dad from north of Oban. Love the country and everything modern day and historical about it. Slainte!
Cheers. 👍
Thoroughly enjoyed this video and love the old photographs (far more interesting in black and white ). The wee boy beside the fish was the best😂🏴
Very nice. Thanks for the look back. Enjoyed the visit.
Lynn. 😊
Cheers Lynn.
My late Uncle Harry insisted that the girls who worked at Duncan's chocolates in Beaverhall Road in Edinburgh were the best looking lassies in the city! The Finlaysons lived around the corner and my Mum's favourite treat was ever a Walnut Whip....
Glorious photos from a bygone age. Whenever I go through Stockbridge market arch I expect to be transported back in time. Hasn't happened yet, but I live in hopes? Thanks so much, Ed. Looking forward to more old time wanderings! ❤️
Thanks Gill.
Many thanks Ed. Greetings from Canada. My mother came from Scotland (Dumfries) as a young girl around 1930, and I've always had an interest in anything Scottish. Keep up the great work, most appreciated.
Thank you.
Great to see you back
Thanks Eddie.
Thanks Ed. Fantastic photographs.
Love this series
Thanks Ed. I'm not living in the past, but it's unbelievable how things have changed in 50/60 years. Your photo of Cockenzie was known as Cockenzie & Port Seton harbour in 1971 by us West Coast holiday makers in nearby Seton Sands holiday camp.
Until 1976, it was all cabins (called huts by all). A lot of my family had huts and everyone got on. I returned 2003, a big holiday company bought it and filled it all with caravans. It was so unfriendly, I felt like crying.
Brilliant 😃 Well done Eddy 👏 I loved it.
You did a grand job o that. Am gonna watch it again 😁
Many thanks. 👍
Excellent study, E 👍🏻 Thanks for the upload. I'm glad to say our local butcher down here in Ledbury makes mutton pies like we're used to.... He uses a recipe from a Scottish chef who lives here, the chef having grown up in Port Glasgow (like me) 😃
Cheers Armando. I suspect mutton pies are not the basic pies that they may initially appear, and any chef who can make a good one is more than worth his salt.
Thanks Ed lovely photos ❤
Wonderful video! An amazing glimpse into days gone by. I could almost taste those lovely pies! Thanks for sharing.
Pies definitely looked good.
Hi, WOW the size of these cod!
My mother was always ..well not always but she would say she could get into
the Tivoli Cinema on Crow Rd with a "jeely jar"
BTW my great uncle Willy Moffat delivered coal sacks(carried on his back) with his horse and cart
in Thornwood- Downhill area in the early 20th century.
Cheers
Thanks for that. I saw films in the Crow Road Tivoli a few times, and remember those hardy men who carried sacks of coal from horse-drawn carts up to the top floor of tenements. We must all have been very fit in the old days.
Another excellent program Eddy, I asked my Mum about picture 23 and she didn't know who the children were in the picture. Thomas Agnew was my great Grandfather and has quite a history, he was a Liberal councillor and bailey for the city of Glasgow, part of the temperance movement and was a big contributor to the Victoria hospital. He also donated his Argil car to the war effort during world war one. That's just scratching the surface of some of my family history.
Many thanks.
It was in Paddy's market area that I remembered seeing old wooden barrels that reeked of fish.
Hi Eddy, I was just thinking the other day about the lack of eating places for workers. As a driver you were never short of places to get a good meal. Docks and big factories usually didn't turn drivers away. Martin Black wire rope works had a great wee canteen, soup, mince and toties and a pudding for buttons. Nane o' your fast food rubbish for the working man, and woman, back then. Great photies Ed.
Cheers Colin. Yes, I think you're right. Ferranti in Robertson Ave., Edinburgh also had a good canteen; full meals and puddings with custard. The good old days.
Is that Janet from Dr Finlay's Casebook at 13.11😁 Would you like another cup of tea, Dr Cameron? 😁 Very interesting photos of a past that has changed so much.👍
I sometimes feel that with the loss of so much industry we have lost our way.
Another great informative video. Nowadays it's too easy just go to the supermarket. I remember most of the wee shops when I was growing up especially sweetie shops. Thx again
It's only when you go into a small shop these days that you realise just how enjoyable the experience is compared with the frantic bedlam of a supermarket.
I agree wholeheartedly
14.46 Back about 1982 someone gave me a 1953 bottle of White Horse identical to the ones in the picture. I intended keeping it as it was the year of my birth but drank it instead. I did keep the bottle for many more years before selling it on ebay to a collector. It could well have been this lady who filled it.
Great informative video Ed! Love this. Well produced
Many thanks Patrick.
excellent set of photos :) and cant beat a cup of bovril ( got to be cubes not jar lol)
Many thanks. Lidl sell a very good yeasty alternative.
keep up the good work Ed👍
Thanks 👍
Thoroughly enjoyed the video Ed there were some nice parks in Glasgow with the fountains and wells
We've lost a lot of stunningly beautiful cast iron fountains, but as you say we thankfully still have some left.
Thanks for this . Look how worn the stairs are already in the first photo. ( Off to the left )
I hadn't noticed that. I think that's the entrance to the common stair as opposed to the shop. Obviously sorted in modern times. Thanks for your comment.
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉great video🎉🎉🎉🎉
Hi Ed, Photo at 14:05 (number20) could be Drum Street, Gilmerton Village
It's always difficult comparing the old with the new; so many changes and alterations. The old photo shows single-storey houses on the left and two-storey houses on the right. I can't see that on Google's street view, but that's not to say it wasn't there. Many thanks for your suggestion.
The photo of Agnew sweet factory is a photo of my family. I have the original of this photo. Great to see them in this. They were actually a very happy bunch not that it seemed that way in the photo.
Thanks William.
I have some old photos of Greenock which show a number of fish restaurants, which I always thought quite odd. Why would any restaurant be so specific in what they have on the menu. The photo of the fish market really illustrates what’s going on, how fish was probably more part of the diet back then compared to now. When I was a fish monger, I was told by a customer how fish doesn’t have the same prominence in our diet like it used to, how younger ones don’t eat fish so much these days. I had to admit that most of my customers were pensioners, with a smattering of middle aged ones. The rare time a 20-something came in to our shop, it caused quite a stir. What’s someone so young wanting fish for? we thought. 99% of them were in for the bananas, peaches or apples which we also sold.
Fish is a dying trade, there are so few fishmongers left, and no fish restaurants at all.
I love the stories you tell about some of the photos. Great video, I hope you keep doing them in between your other ones.
Thanks Martin. I think today's pensioners probably live on a diet of boiled haddock and ice-cream.
Did you notice the face looking out of the first floor window in picture 16, I'm enjoying your videos and well informing content
It's amazing the number of folk hanging out of windows or peeking out of a window in these old photos. I suppose someone with a camera on a tripod was an unusual event back then.
photo 26 looks like alexanders coach works canteen in camelon but thats probably wrong.
That's interesting. Thank you.
That location wae the mother n fish man could be girvan mabey