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Ed Thomson from Angus. Posted 14 Mar 2005.
As a schoolboy in 1944 I lived in Caledonian Place at the old Dalry Road Station I was a pupil at Trinity Academy (Newhaven Station) and travelled daily by train to and from School.
Holy Cross (RC) School was in the same area and their Pupils were always on the same trains.
As teenagers do, I got friendly with a Holy Cross girl who lived in the same street. I asked her out on a "Date" and my parents were horrified that I would go out with a "RC". They would have been even more horrified if they had found out that I had gone with her to St Mary's Cathedral to see what it was all about when I should have been attending Confirmation Class in the Parish Church. We never did have that date but did meet occasionally at the Palais or the Locarno dancing. Her parents weren' too happy either as they were as the saying goes "staunch"! However we parted on good terms when I went off to work at London Airport in 1950. She had a sad marriage and four children and finished up at Niddrie Mains, a widow.

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