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Hawthorn Leslie
Posted by peter cook on 9/2/2025, 6:52 am
An old postcard photo from 1917 showing Hawthorn, Leslie's with Bonaccord Street (or Bon Accord Street as both spellings were used) in the foreground.
Re: Hawthorn Leslie
Posted by Allan Campbell on 9/2/2025, 9:11 am, in reply to "Hawthorn Leslie"
Great Photo Peter. Never seen that one before.
One thing that jumps out to me is what appears to be housing going down from the offices to the ferry on the far side of Ellison Street.
To me there was just a wall , or are those buildings behind the wall? Could that be the wall just over the Bonaccord/ Ellison St houses.?
Here is that area in 1895. On a 1914 map I noticed the property nearest the river on Leslies side was a drill hall for WW1.
Re: Hawthorn Leslie Norman
Posted by Allan Campbell on 9/2/2025, 10:30 am, in reply to "Re: Hawthorn Leslie"
I looks like that there were houses on the Leslie’s side back then.
I wonder if they were replaced for another slipway?
However I question the mapmaker. The houses on the Bonaccord side did not have staircases for the upper flats. Well, not judging by the photo of the flooding to lower Ellison St.
The houses on the Leslie’s side did not have staircase out the front from the first floor. They look like porch or passageways to get out to Ellison St. for families living in those houses through the boundary wall.
Looking carefully those houses are inside Leslie’s boundary wall.
You can just see the boundary wall where there is a step in the Roofs of the houses on the Bonaccord side of Ellison St.
Maybe they were for staff that had to be On Site overnight.
Sorry a bit disjointed cannot cut and paste on iPad.
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