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ali
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 Posted: 12/06/2006 10:56 Post subject: The Rathbone Appreciation Thread |
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I thought that rather than spoil the continuity of Rathbone's "On the Beach" Thread I would start a new thread so that I could say how much I am enjoying these daily historical snippets of the story of Portobello beach.
I know from experience on the Scotsman Archive project how daunting it can be trawling through the archives trying to identify juicy little stories so well done Rathbone - your hard work is paying off handsomely.
I don't know how many more of these episodes are to come but they would make an excellent booklet with some well chosen illustrations.
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rathbone
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| Posted: 12/06/2006 11:41 Post subject: Re: The Rathbone "On the Beach" Appreciation Threa |
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Thanks. Much appreciated.
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I don't know how many more of these episodes are to come but they would make an excellent booklet with some well chosen illustrations. |
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I've got enough stuff to run through the summer.... though there will be breaks for holidays (later on this week for example.)
I did a 26 page, illustrated booklet on Portobello Showmen, which I sent to Bob Jefferson as a pdf file and which was circulated to the Local History Society among others. (I think that Bob is still trying to work out how to incorporate that sort of thing into Porty On-line.) This will probably end up as something similar.
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Bob Jefferson
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| Posted: 12/06/2006 13:05 Post subject: |
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The plan is to give rathbone's work the credit it deserves by setting up our own History section on Portobello Online. There are others, including myself, who took out a membership of the Scotsman digital archive and although I am doubtful that any of us are as capable as rathbone of producing such entertaining, informed and interesting results, this would nevertheless be the repository for such work.
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Epykat
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| Posted: 12/06/2006 22:42 Post subject: |
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| Bob Jefferson wrote: | | although I am doubtful that any of us are as capable as rathbone... |
Or have as much free time to loll about playing with computers all day  
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wangi
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| Posted: 19/06/2006 10:42 Post subject: |
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Yes indeed, a very interesting series!
| rathbone wrote: | | Up until the 1840s Portobello had a small harbour with a quay. It was allowed to go into decay and finally to ruin. For a while the remains could be seen in the sand at low tide and then they too disappeared. |
Nah:
http://porty.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2313 |
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rathbone
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| Posted: 19/06/2006 11:59 Post subject: |
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Suitably contrite 
I'd forgotten that thread until Ali p.m. me to point it out.
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foxy
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| Posted: 07/08/2006 18:14 Post subject: |
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Give us this day our daily Rathbone  |
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Epykat
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| Posted: 07/08/2006 22:35 Post subject: |
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| foxy wrote: | | Give us this day our daily Rathbone |
He's on his hols Foxy - here
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foxy
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| Posted: 08/08/2006 10:02 Post subject: |
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Ahhh I'd forgottoen about this thread...thank you whoever tidied up after me...I'm so not used to that 
....hope you're enjoying your holiday Rathbone  |
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Cleopas
Joined: 07 May 2006
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| Posted: 08/08/2006 12:40 Post subject: |
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All hail the conquering Hero of History, Rathbone!
*genuflects*
Thanks to Rathbone I now know more about Porty, than I do the ancestral homelands. My dad is not pleased! Which is pretty cool by me! |
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rathbone
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| Posted: 10/08/2006 20:30 Post subject: |
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Thank you Foxy and Cleopas, I am deeply touched .....(some might say in more ways than one  )
Just for you, I'm posting an extra long entry on the beach to get things up to date.....
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Epykat
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| Posted: 10/08/2006 21:36 Post subject: |
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He's such good company..........
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Bob Jefferson
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| Posted: 08/09/2006 10:29 Post subject: |
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As Rathbone is far too modest to mention this, I thought you should know that one of the reasons we have made his 'Portobello Showmen' work available on the site is as a result of a request from Archie Foley.
An international conference on magic and magician performers takes place in London during the week beginning 18th September and Rathbone's research on Andre Letta in particular will be of great interest to historians of magic.
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Marya
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| Posted: 13/09/2006 09:29 Post subject: |
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I love reading Rathbone's daily updates, though there have been some rather bleak ones lately. 
I was amused to read that even in 1906 there were youth disturbances on the Prom .
| Quote: | Allegedly, it was owing to the narrowness of the Promenade that so much unseemly conduct was witnessed during the summer months.
There were frequently to be seen bands of young fellows amusing themselves by pushing people off the Promenade.
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Poppy
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| Posted: 22/09/2006 09:20 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | member of the Lothian and Border Horse |
Eh?? 
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rathbone
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| Posted: 22/09/2006 12:30 Post subject: |
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Either he was a mutant or they were a local cavalry regiment
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foxy
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| Posted: 30/09/2006 17:05 Post subject: |
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| rathbone wrote: | Suitably contrite
I'd forgotten that thread until Ali p.m. me to point it out. |
I see from your signature that you're suitably contrite again Rathers...what have you been up to? |
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rathbone
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| Posted: 01/10/2006 07:20 Post subject: |
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I used a naughty word when replying to Impossible Voices over on his graffiti thread and was chastised by the moderators.
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foxy
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| Posted: 01/10/2006 09:45 Post subject: |
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| rathbone wrote: | | I used a naughty word when replying to Impossible Voices over on his graffiti thread and was chastised by the moderators. |
Tut tut...thank goodness for the thought police |
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rapunzell
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| Posted: 08/10/2006 00:09 Post subject: Submarines at the end of Porty pier |
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I found photos of two of the submarines; the C22 and the C23:
Where did you find the info about the visit? Were there any photos taken at the pier itself? |
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rathbone
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| Posted: 08/10/2006 07:19 Post subject: |
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The info came from an article in the Scotsman. Unfortunately there were no photographs. These are great..... thanks.
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Cleopas
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| Posted: 14/11/2006 13:14 Post subject: |
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I like that the powers-that-be have given you your own column(s), Rathbone ... but I have a question concerning your Magicians thread.
Marvello .... any relation to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named?? I ask because maybe ole JK filched it for her boy-who-lived books? Which I've got and read them all ...
Okay so they're for kids ... sue me! I'll read anything ... even the back of a sauce or bleach bottle! |
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rathbone
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| Posted: 15/11/2006 10:21 Post subject: |
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You never know...... she appears to have filched a bit (allegedly). Somewhere there must be a Pottermaniac who is researching all of that, so try posting a few questions on one of the thousands of he who must not be named websites.
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Cleopas
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| Posted: 08/01/2007 09:58 Post subject: |
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I've been lurking a lot since I stopped posting in the main forum, and not taking part ... but I have to say, Rathbone, that reading your fabulous column is a huge part of what makes POL so very worthwhile to me. You conjure up simpler times and inject it with just the right amount of reportage that even the non-history buffs amongst us must appreciate Porty of old.
Along with Bob's brilliant postcard thread, the two of you have breathed a life into this forum that is unequalled by any Ediburgh site I've looked in on so far ...
I look forward to the book these threads should become. |
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rathbone
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| Posted: 09/01/2007 10:12 Post subject: |
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Thanks for that....and I'm sure I speak for Bob as well.
I'm about at the end of the 'beach' thing (the Scotsman Archive only goes up to 1950), but look out for the Marine Gardens thread, starting soon
It's nice to know that you are still lurking (and starting to dip a toe back in). You were missed from the main forum.
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