We had another visit from a BBC Team on Wednesday, 15th March. This time they were showing films connected with the Scotland on Film series currently running on Sunday evenings.

The films were about peoples’ reminiscences from days past, forties, fifties, sixties.

Men and women now retired spoke about things and people they remembered - like ‘Big Tam’ running with the milk. Now better known as Sir Sean Connery!

The fun was fast and furious as one thought triggered off another. How many people listened to ‘Dick Barton, Special Agent’ as teenagers. And his sidekick, ‘Snowy’? Another memory was taking rags to ‘Asa Was’ in Fountainbridge and spending the money we got on peas and vinegar in a nearby shop. And there were the summer holidays spent at ‘Porty’ (Portobello) – no foreign travel in those days.

While the films were running a photographer moved about recording our own reactions to what we were watching and we all had a great afternoon!

It really is a very interesting and exciting project and the BBC Team are always on the lookout for film clips, snapshots. old postcards, anything which helps document and keep the past alive. If anyone out there has bits and pieces lying around which may be of interest, contact

Anita Fitzsimons, producer of the website, said: ‘We had a great time showing the material from Scotland on Film to the ACEIT audience. Showing clips of local life in Edinburgh and listening to folks’ memories was really informative. It was great to get true reflections of the ups and downs of life in the past from people who lived through the times portrayed”.

Download a Windows Media Player movie of the BBC Scotland on Film visit to the Edinburgh Silver Surfers: Here