Category: Old Edinburgh

General, Historical, Old Edinburgh, RAF, Scotland, Wartime Memories, World War11 Comments

Guns Galore!

Johnny Jones - Nonagenarian Author

Wartime Memories No.1 Not long after the end of the Second World War, under the starlit sky of an early autumn morning, a chuffing, puffing old railway engine, enveloped in a cloud of steam, shunted a clanking train of open topped freight wagons into the railway siding just to the North of Bonnington Toll in Edinburgh. With the wagon’s brakes secured, the engine steamed off to get on with its next task, leaving the sidings deserted, eerily silent and hidden from view behind the high random rubble stone wall that borders Newhaven Road. Later, with the sun creeping over the … Continue reading Guns Galore!

General, Historical, Old Edinburgh11 Comments

An introduction to stereo photography

Johnny Jones - Nonagenarian Author

The Edinburgh Life Magazine is currently publishing a series of black and white Aerial Photographs taken in 1930 and comparing them to a series of my colour photos taken, from the same point of view, in 1993. This is the third and final post supplementing these articles. The information provided and opinions expressed here are the author’s personal interpretation of the featured events he has accessed. It must also be recognised that modern research methods are continuously finding and re-interpreting new older information. 1930 Edinburgh photograph on the left, and the same location photographed in 1993. TYPES OF IN-FLIGHT PHOTOGRAPHIC … Continue reading An introduction to stereo photography

Historical, Old Edinburgh, Scotland, Stenlake Books, Uncategorized5 Comments

Old EDINBURGH views from above

Johnny Jones - Nonagenarian Author

THE BACKSTORY TO My book – Featured in the Edinburgh Life magazine September/October 2024 Old EDINBURGH: Views from above – Published in 2002 by Stenlake Publishing – http://www.stenlake.co.uk. – Whose editor said that, “Of all the books we have published this one is one of my favourites.” THE 1930 BLACK AND WHITE OBLIQUES In the late 1980’s a quantity of glass plate negatives were found in a Lothian Regional Council building that had formerly housed the offices of the City of Edinburgh Corporation. It was evident that they were fairly old. The images were clearly recognizable as being views of … Continue reading Old EDINBURGH views from above