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moonbeam wrote:The new look front page of the Herald is a real turnoff. Wednesdays front page "scoop" over a man buying a salmon beat.Hardly a story more envy. Miss the Diary now Tom Shields and David Belcher have gone.
larrytrooper wrote: ...........however the Bakery I was Talking about in Pitt St., (no longer there, the B.T. building is on it's place I think) had a very deep basement and a sub basement as well, I know it is a wee bit along from where you were talking about, but it shows you there was definately deep cellars. I do believe they kept bags of flour in the first basement, so it must have been very dry.
rabmania wrote:Check his Facebook page (and kill me now). I don't understand it, but he's still around. I miss his Herald contributions and I hate Radio Scotland so much I never know if he's on there as he used to be.
The Egg Man wrote:larrytrooper wrote: ...........however the Bakery I was Talking about in Pitt St., (no longer there, the B.T. building is on it's place I think) had a very deep basement and a sub basement as well, I know it is a wee bit along from where you were talking about, but it shows you there was definately deep cellars. I do believe they kept bags of flour in the first basement, so it must have been very dry.
My recollection is that there was a bakery on the north west corner of St Vincent Street and Pitt Street (where McClure Naismith are now) where you could turn up after 4am, chap on a wooden door on Pitt Street and be served fresh rolls.
There may well have been another further south on Pitt Street but I don't remember it.
sunnysider wrote:Belcher was, is, a hero.
He was given the daily TV listings - LISTINGS - job on the Herald, and he turned it into the biggest must-read in the entire paper, by injecting personality, style, wit, attitude and an intuitive grasp of the zeitgeist. The TV listings, FFS!
This was in the days of Arnold Kemp, Reynolds, Ann Simpson, Archer, and McLean.
As usual in newspapers, he was mis-read and misunderstood and ended up doing 'modern culture' features, none of which replicated the cattle-prod-up-your-arse belt of fresh energy which he brought to the listings.
I don't know what he's doing now, but he will always be a hero to me.
Charlie Brooker? Pffffft.
larrytrooper wrote:I think that was Robinsons Rolls, he (Robinson) used to be a van driver for the one at the bottom of Pitt St., The one at the bottom did the last Scotch oven rolls, as opposed to the modern electric ovens and were quite different in taste texture and even size !!
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