• Intro
  • News
  • Index of Archived Posts
  • Queensferry History
  • Memorials
  • Commonwealth Graves
  • Interesting War Facts
  • Surrounding Areas
  • Port Edgar
  • WWI Timeline
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Index of Archived Posts

3/8/2017

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 To use the index on this page ,
​click on the title, which has a direct link to the relevant page.
 
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2014
November , "Stories That Shaped Queensferry" - War Horse!"
December , "Local Life” 

2015
January, “Family Losses”
February,“Some of the Local Shops” 
March,“1889 Voters Role, Occupations” 
April,“The Witches of Queensferry”
May,“8,240 BC, Maybe a Wee Bit Too Far Back but Interesting”  
June,“Queensferry Diamond Jubilee Baths”  
July,“The Priory Church of St Mary of Mount Carmel” 
August, “Bellstane Birds” 
September,  “A History of Brewery Close followed by Plewlands House” 
October, “History of Black Castle followed by Update on Brewery Close” 
November,“Rosebery Hall”

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2016
January 2016 = “Queensferry Old Parish Church – The Vennel" 
February 2016 = “The First Queensferry High School Magazine”

March 1916 =  "A History of VAT 69"
July 2016 = “Snippets,Including ‘Cheese Town’ also including  Legend of Hound Point"
August 1916 = "Queensferry Passage"

September 2016 = “Did You Know” 
October 2016 = “A Brief History of the City of Edinburgh Council Office,
                                                                                                                  Queensferry”

November 2016 = "History of Street Lighting in Queensferry

December 2016 = "Covenanters in Queensferry" 
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2017
January 2017 = “Water Supply of Queensferry …A Short History”
February 2017 = “Robertson Orphan Home for Girls, South Queensferry”
March 2017 =  A Look at Queensferry Harbour
April 2017 = “The Ferry Tap, A Brief History” 
May 2017 = ”A Few Old Telephone Numbers”
June 2017 = "A Brief History of the Staghead Hotel"
July 2017 = “A History of ‘Catherine Bank’ Now Numbers 5 and 6 Stoneycroft Road” 
August 2017 = “A History of the Ferry Fair” followed by "Rosebery Buildings"
September 2017 = "A Brief History of the Anchor Inn"
October 2017 = "A Brief History of the Hawes Inn"
November 2017 = "A Brief History of the Orocco Pier formerly the Queensferry Arms"
December 2017 = "A History of Soap making in Queensferry" 

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2018

January 2018 = "A Very Brief History of the 'Hole in the Wall' Pub
​March 2018 = "Jacobs Ladder" Also under March - "Ghosts and the Darker Past"
May 2018 = "A Walk Round Queensferry - Many Years Ago - Part 1"
June 2018 = "A Walk Round Queensferry - Many Years Ago - Part 2"
​July 2018 - Listed Buildings in and Around Queensferry"
August 2018 = "The Ferry Fair Song"
September 2018 - "A Brief History of School Life in Queensferry" 
​October 2018 - "What The Papers Say"
November 2018 = " A Brief Look at Royal Visits to Queensferry"
December 2018 = " Queensferry's Poppy Drape, November 2018"  

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2019

February 2019 = "A Traditional Game -  Marbles"
March 2019 = "A Brief History of Lithographic Scraps"


2020

January 2020 = "Did You Know "????????
February 2020 = "Beaverbank Villa (Old British Legion Building)! 

April 2020 = "Inchgarvie House"
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Index of Archived Posts, Memorials and Commonwealth Graves

2/8/2017

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Queensferry Memorial on Rosebery Hall. Image QHG
Dalmeny Memorial. Image QHG




Memorials
November 2014 = “Unveiling of Queensferry and Dalmeny Memorials”
December 2014 = “1914 Losses Commemorated on Queensferry and Dalmeny Memorials”
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January 2015 = “Queensferry and Dalmeny Memorials 1915 Losses”
February 2015 = “Queensferry and Dalmeny Men 1916”
March 2015 = “Queensferry and Dalmeny Men 1917”
April 2015 = “Queensferry and Dalmeny Men 1918”
May 2015 = “Queensferry and Dalmeny 1919 and Beyond (not including WW2)and                              Appeal for help with ‘Problem Men’”
June 2015 = “Can You help Us With Our Missing Men?”
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July 2016 = The Somme Offensive 1st July – 18th November 1916”
August 2016 = “Somme deaths July/August 1916 and More”
December 2016 = “Remembrance Sunday 13th November 2016”
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August 2017 = “Commemorating Passchendaele”
December 2017 = "Remembrance Sunday 12th November 2017"

December 2018​ = "Queensferry Men who Died in WWI and are not on The Memorial"
June 2019 = " Commemorating D Day - The Battle of Normandy, known as 'Operation                                                                                                                                                                 Overlord'
July 2019 = "
Commemorating Men on Queensferry WW2 Memorial -75 years"
August 2019 = "Commemorating More WW2 Men, listed on Queensferry
                                                                                    Memorial,  who Died in 1944, 75 Years ago".

September 2019 = "Information on World War 2 and Commemorating Queensferrys                                                                                     first Casualties as Listed on the Memorial"
October 2019 = "Commemorating the final men on Queensferry Memorial and the 7                                                                          names listed on Dalmeny Memorial - World War 2".

November 2019 = "Queensferry and Dalmeny Prisoners of War, WWI and WW2"
December 2019 = "Queensferry History Group Commemorates the Fallen of  WWI"



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Queensferry Cemetery, Commonwealth Graves. Image QHG


Commonwealth Graves
December 2014 = “Commonwealth Graves, South Queensferry Cemetery”
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January 2015 = “Commonwealth Graves 2015”
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February 1915 = “Commonwealth Graves 1916”
March 2015 = “Commonwealth Graves 1917”
April 2015 – “Commonwealth Graves 1918 -35 Men”
May 2015 = “Commonwealth Graves 1919 Onwards”
July 2015 = “Images of Damaged Ships”
November 2015 = “Remembrance Service – Armistice Day 2015”
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June 2016 = “The Battle of Jutland Centenary”
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January 2017 = “Commonwealth Graves 1917 -13 Men Died in 1917”
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January 2019 = "The Story of Henry Gilbert Lovell, 1853 - 1918"


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Interesting War Facts

2/8/2017

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- World War I Timeline - 1914 - 1918
January 2015 = "1914 Timeline"
December 1915 = “1915 Timeline”
December 2016 = “1916 Timeline”
December 2017 = “1917 Timeline”
December 2018 = “1918 Timeline”

December 2014 = “Christmas in the Trenches”
March 2015 = “The Bantam Regiment”
April 2015 = “Some Facts and Figures, Queensferry and Dalmeny Memorials”
May 2015 = “The Queensferry Tank!”
June 2015= “Inchgarvie Island”
July 2015 =  Ypres
August 2015 = “Emily Borrowman – Queensferry Postmistress WWI” plus  “Military
                                                                                                                                                     Hospitals”

September 2015 = “100th Anniversary of the Battle of Loos, 25th September – 18th
                                                                                                                                               October 1918”

November 2015 = “Animals and World War I”
February 2016 = “Scottish Suffragettes”
April 2016 = “Zepplin Raids on Edinburgh 1916”
May 2016 = “Quintinshill Rail Disaster -1915”
​January 2018 = "WW1 Timeline 1918"
April 2018 = "Centenery of the RAF - Brief History"

May 2019 = "World War 2 Looming, Nicholas Winton, Kindertransport and
                            Queensferry".

December 2019 = "The Electoral Roll, Queensferry and the 1918 General Election."



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Surrounding Areas

1/8/2017

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April 2016 - A Brief History of Dalmeny Kirk
May 2016 - Dalmeny Shale Mines

December 2016 - Dalmeny House 
March 2017 - Dalmeny Snippets (up to 2005)

February 2018 -  A Brief History of Kirkliston Parish
June 2018 - How Cheesetown got its name.
August 2019 - 
A Brief History of Duntarvie Castle - (Near Winchburgh)
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Port Edgar

1/8/2017

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Picture
Port Edgar Pens, Image © Queensferry History Group (QHG)

Port Edgar
March 2015 = “Port Edgar”
April 2015 = “Port Edgar Rail/Ferry and HMS Caledonia”
May 2015 = “Port Edgar and Butlaw”
June 2015 = “Rosyth and Port Edgar”
July 2015 = “Port Edgar Destroyers 1917, etc”
August 2015 = “Port Edgar and May Island”
October 2015 = “Port Edgar Years”
March 2019 = "Lieutenant Commander Lionel "Buster" Crabb"

February 2020 = Butlaw Holiday Camp


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