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We in Leith are well travelled. I've been
in New Zealand, Australia, China and Russia.00:00:42
I've been up now I've taken been down00:00:46
Antarctic and I've always00:00:48
met people who
knew about me, 'cos Leith is a...00:00:54
it's a way of life.00:00:58
Leith is a community.00:01:08
Leith Walk has its characters, it has its
Heritage and traditions - it was a time00:01:15
before in the past.
There's a clear distinction between Leith and Edinburgh00:01:19
and I feel as a Leither.
We've got everything in Leith we could want.00:01:26
I'm not from Morningside, I'm not from Stockbridge, I'm from Leith.00:01:30
I'm not a Portobello person. I'm from Leith.00:01:43
Everything seemed to gravitate back
between the Wars and it was almost like00:01:48
that was when the Leith identity was
really cemented and everything after the00:01:53
War had been slightly a bit of a kind of
unravelling at that point.00:01:59
The closest I get to the old Leith is
Gala Day.00:02:06
In the Gala Day, kids are doing what we done as kids.00:02:15
Way back, Leith Walk was a Scots
community with some foreigners and now there is00:02:23
a big foreign community of people
who have emigrated to this area because00:02:28
the beauty of Leith is you could be
living next to someone very00:02:32
working-class or someone almost semi-
aristocratic. The tenements are quite a00:02:37
mixed bunch.00:02:40
I think coming from abroad you are
trying to find identity with a place00:02:46
you've even because anyone needs kind of
feeling a sense of belonging and I think00:02:52
I found a new leaf.00:03:07
We are a small village who spread around
the world and our influence is spread all00:03:15
around the world and so can spread round
the world but only if you give us a00:03:20
chance.00:03:46
The impression that Paul and I got when
we were working there was that Leith has00:03:50
such a strong identity and such a strong
shared sense of identity so we wanted00:03:55
something that that embodied that and
that didn't embody it as an outsiders'00:04:01
comment on it but speak to people
in a way that they all felt that it was00:04:05
speaking for them and also at that time
because Leith was in such a state of00:04:10
transition there was a sense of wanting
to capture it for the people who did00:04:15
consider themselves as old Leithers and
while Leith was going through this big00:04:19
period of change that they felt that
they had something which encapsulated00:04:24
what Leith meant for them and our
intention to begin with was very much00:04:29
not big splashy high profile things but
definitely things that were well00:04:34
integrated quite low-key and had a lot
of community involvement and really the00:04:40
history mural on great Junction Street
that was like the sort of culmination of00:04:45
the project and that was the final swan
song of it in that that was the big00:04:51
splashy high profile piece but by that
stage we were feeling a lot more00:04:56
integrated with the community and it
didn't feel like an active presumption00:05:01
by then because we felt that we were in
a position to do something which would00:05:06
actually strike a chord with local
residents of Leith. I live and have worked00:05:16
in Leith for many years and I have
enjoyed every minute of it. Well when I00:05:24
was here in the 1970s I would see that a
lot of Leith was very derelict and00:05:31
run-down, big warehouses were empty and
unused and a lot of00:05:40
nice homes were not properly looked
after.00:05:45
Everybody felt the key thing that00:05:49
anchored Leith was it's the connection to
the sea and things nautical, the docks, so00:05:54
up at the top this is where it all
starts, by the water, and down this side -00:06:00
this is the the world of work and we
have dominating it the figure of a man00:06:05
and a woman and the woman is holding a
crate from the the bottling plant which00:06:09
was one of the main areas of employment
for women at the time in Leith and the00:06:14
man is holding a 'dockers hook' and he
he's a docker. Then the other side to00:06:20
the the world of work was the world of
unemployment. This scene here represents00:06:25
a memory that people had of the
conditions of employment, your original00:06:29
zero hours contract where people just
turned up at the gates of the docks and00:06:34
the foreman would come out and go "you
you you you and you" and everyone else00:06:39
would then turn away and walk off
without work for that day. It was sad,00:06:44
the decline of the shipbuilding industry.
Another industry there they used to fill00:06:50
Leith docks at night times when there was
thousands of people pouring out the00:06:55
docks going home.
You could tell it was five o'clock00:06:58
because the five o'clock hooter went. That's when
the people started pouring out the docks and the00:07:05
in their thousands.
You mean the Leith docks was a big00:07:08
employer at one stage. You had a
thousand people working in the00:07:14
shipyards, you had all the other
industries that were about00:07:18
in the docks. They're really really really busy.
It supported all the small shopkeepers00:07:24
in the area - they all thrived on it.
Industries that used to be here where of00:07:29
course cargoes, ships coming in with
cargo and dockers working on ships and00:07:36
Mackay bottling Factory.
Crawford's biscuits. The S.E.I., they made00:07:44
fertiliser.
The whiskey warehouses which closed up00:07:48
and lots of lovely young
artists and people like that took over00:07:54
and rented spaces there to do their
painting and so Leith begun to have a00:07:59
different aspect of workforces. This
building here was a one by a wine00:08:06
merchant where there was many of them
in Leith because wine was such a big00:08:11
part of the economy in Leith for
hundreds and hundreds of years.00:08:15
Then we had this decline of the docks. The mood of this was definitely a00:08:21
nostalgic one because shipbuilding by
the time this mural came along was00:08:25
history in Leith,
although absolutely central an important00:08:29
part of the history and I wanted to try
and capture something of the kind of the00:08:35
wistfulness of that looking back on
these great days of shipbuilding and00:08:39
also I had this difficult and interesting
shape to fill and I actually lighted on00:08:46
a renaissance painting by Fra Angelico
of Christ being lowered from the cross00:08:52
and the composition of it was so tight
and had all the sense of emotional00:08:58
intensity about it and I actually almost
lifted that composition straight to00:09:04
create this group here and this large
wooden pattern, if you read that, is the00:09:09
body of Christ. These are the disciples
lowering them from the cross.00:10:21
When Mother India was torn
in two,00:10:25
when Mother India was torn in two. You
left your villages of Glotia and Padivala.00:10:30
You came to Bombay
leaving behind friends, playmates,00:10:35
brothers and sisters.00:10:56
Then separated
forever when you boarded the ships and00:11:02
planes to Britain.
Your mother gave you blessings "be happy00:11:07
in your new life and let the gentle
breezes bring messages of your00:11:12
well-being". But the unspoken words in her
heart said "we are being separated by00:11:18
oceans and mother and daughter may never
meet again".00:11:42
♬ Home I'm going, home I need, a land to
heal my soul. Take me home. Take me home ♬00:11:52
♬ over the green green fields and far away ♬00:12:00
♬ Home to the motherland. Home to the
motherland. Home to the motherland and00:12:11
♬ over the hills and far away ♬00:12:39
I think it's always nice for people to
discover history and by that I don't00:12:44
just mean the kind of history you might
learn in school all the big events of00:12:48
course they're interesting as well we
always have to remember that when you're00:12:50
talking about big historical events
those events affect normal people of00:12:56
course I do personally and one of the
reasons I was really interested in being00:13:00
involved in in this project is because
of what's happening right now in terms00:13:04
of migration. Of course when we started
this project we were seeing stories on00:13:07
the news the whole time
about migrants coming to Europe00:13:12
and the awful stories of drownings
happening in the Mediterranean. Of course00:13:15
they're not on the news so much anymore
but they're still happening all the time.00:13:18
So for me personally to do a project
about migration to do with people coming00:13:23
and going and the positive traits
that they were leaving was was a very00:13:27
important thing for me.00:13:51
'Tales from the Hanging Captain' was the
first piece of theatre that we developed00:13:55
as part of 'Leith Moves' and this came
from a process really of the drama group00:14:00
exploring some of the history of Leith
docks and bringing some of these stories00:14:05
in and what we might
want to look at. We worked again with00:14:08
writer Duncan Kidd to kind of tease out
some of the things that we might want to00:14:14
explore. So 'Tales from the Hanging Captain'
was set in a fictional pub in Leith00:14:18
called 'The Hanging Captain' which had been
the oldest pub in Leith and really00:14:23
looked back at some of that history so
some local history and some history00:14:28
going back hundreds of years. We looked
at three main events; we looked at the00:14:32
Leith Dockers strike. "It lasted for seven weeks and involved 4,000 workers. Their
demands included. 600 free laborers and extra00:14:54
police were brought in to break the
strike. *booo* Such was the worry of a strike epidemic that on the 17th00:15:03
of July 1913, six naval gunboats were
brought into Leith Harbor."00:15:07
We looked at00:15:11
the "Darian Scheme". "Ships left Leith to
found the colony in Panama Italian but00:15:21
England didn't want a rival and some say
England's ruin Scotland's chances,00:15:24
sabotaged them, so at the beginning of the
story Scotland's angry... very angry,00:15:29
looking for an excuse for revenge." We
looked at the whaling industry, so we picked00:15:40
those three areas out of all the
hundreds of areas that we could look at00:15:43
to explore in "'Tales from the Hanging Captain". The process that went into 'Tales00:15:49
from the Hanging Captain' was very much
the drama group identifying what they00:15:52
wanted to look at and explore and we thought
actually moving into year two of the00:15:56
project we wanted to have more voices in
there so we used the performances to00:16:01
invite audience members to share their
own stories.00:16:05
We had beer mats that they could write
their stories down on but we also held00:16:08
post-show discussions where people could
share their own stories and we use those00:16:12
to move into the second stage of the
project and that stage was again what's00:16:15
to hear more voices so we invited people
to join a research group so that they00:16:20
could share stories and we also looked
in the drama group about involving these00:16:24
stories within the process a little bit
more.00:17:04
I suppose 'The Waves on the Sea' started
from the research group and some of the00:17:09
stuff that was coming up through the
research group was looking broadly at00:17:13
the idea of migration so immigration in
immigration to Leith and also they also00:17:17
had a focus on food and how that
affected the food so how the different00:17:21
cultures coming in and going out
affected the different types of food00:17:25
that were available here. So we started
to devise and develop little pieces00:17:29
about people leaving and coming but also
connecting to the cast themselves. Very00:17:34
few of the cast are from Leith. Some are
from Scotland, some from the UK but00:17:37
lots of from outside of the UK as well
so there was lots of stories there and00:17:41
thought about immigration and
emigration and we started develop all00:17:44
these little scenes and so we had three
kind of main chapters we wanted to tell00:17:47
of arriving, leaving and eating so we
started to weave these together and the kind00:17:53
of form that we took on the end was to
tell the story of three generations of00:17:58
Italian immigrants here so a grandmother
if you like who moved from Italy in the00:18:02
1950s, her daughter and then her
granddaughter we decided to leave leaf00:18:08
to go to Australia and throughout that
main story we added little snippets and00:18:12
snapshots of people coming and leaving
and eating throughout the centuries00:18:17
within Leith. The play's about journies and
people leaving their home, living places00:18:22
they know, people they love, to try life
somewhere else.00:18:26
They've got expectations and it probably
never turns out the way you think it00:18:30
will. It's also about family, it's about
keeping traditions that you brought with00:18:35
you,
maybe adopting traditions from places00:18:38
that you've you've made your home. The
play is mainly about three00:18:42
generations of Italian women it's also
about lots of different cultures and00:18:46
food and entrances and exits from Leith.
The play is about emigration, a00:18:52
hot topic at the moment. Leith has always
been one of these places where people00:18:57
have come and passed through on the
way to other places and arriving in00:19:02
Scotland. "Today is about two families coming
together but it's also about two00:19:08
communities coming together as well and
if you think about it that that's a little00:19:13
bit what makes Leith the way it is. The
people come into here and the world00:19:19
goes back out again. And it always
has. And everytime it does it leaves a little bit of itself behind.00:19:31
Ladies and Gentlemen. The bride and groom".00:19:34
We wanted to show in this particular climate,00:19:38
in which there seems to be a lot of
demonising of migrants, lots of talking00:19:43
about migration, that actually to show
that migration and immigration00:19:47
emigration is just something that has
happened for hundreds if not thousands00:19:51
of years, that it's actually a very
natural part of human society people are00:19:55
going to move around bring cultures
bring food this whole time00:19:58
and this isn't a kind of a recent thing
and actually we wanted to show this as00:20:02
being a very positive thing that we live
in in Leith which is this great area of00:20:06
Edinburgh which has got all these
influences going back hundreds of years00:20:09
because of migration and it was really
important for me and some of the cast00:20:12
that we showed this positive effect of
migration.00:20:17
I've not always lived in Leith. I was
born in Glasgow, my father came over from00:20:23
India is
Lahore but now is considered in Pakistan00:20:28
since the partition.
My father came to Scotland with my mum when00:20:32
they got married in 1967. My father came to
work in Vavola and Crolla who are family of ours,00:20:38
cousins.
I came to Scotland nearly 1100:20:43
years ago for the first time so for all
the 11 years was on and off the Poland00:20:48
different parts of Edinburgh so now it
is about 3 years that I'm back to me and00:20:55
I really feel for this community. I was
born apart up here in Edinburgh but my00:20:59
mother and father originally from Hong
Kong.00:21:02
I love Leith Walk. I've been living here
for the past 2 years and I've seen how00:21:10
Leith Walk has changed, it's an amazing
neighbourhood because it's00:21:16
very multicultural and you can see a lot
of different restaurants, different00:21:21
cultures, all together - it's amazing.
Leith and working in Leith and living00:21:27
near Leith is really about the diverse
backgrounds and the amount of countries00:21:31
that people come from that converge on
Leith really and it makes for a vibrancy00:21:36
so that Leith is an active and vibrant
place to work. For me it's about00:21:41
acceptance.
I feel wonderfully almost at home here00:21:44
rather quickly people are very helpful
and I'm just feeling so connected to the00:21:49
place in such a short time, it just feels
right for me.00:21:58
Well, when I just got married there was only
about 40 Sikh families in00:22:03
Edinburgh and from that prospect it's
changed a lot because there's nearly00:22:07
over 500 families you know and you
couldn't get any ingredients we couldn't00:22:12
buy things here in Edinburgh and would
either have to go to Glasgow or when00:22:16
relatives are coming over from India and
by the end were so phone calls you just00:22:20
done it by letter and you would just ask
them to bring, you know, the things that00:22:25
you couldn't get here but now, I mean,
Leith's changed so much I mean you can get00:22:29
every single and really even in the local
Tesco, Asda, etc. you can just go in00:22:34
there and buy the ingredients, whereas
then you can never even00:22:37
know what half the ingredients were
called. Well it's cold fish potatoes but00:22:48
my mother-in-law taught me how to make
that. It was a dish that we'd make in00:22:52
India. It's called a "poor man's dish" but
it's really really amazing when it's00:22:55
cooked and the only thing is, there's no
fish in it because every other00:22:59
ingredient and apart from the fish but
it's made the way we do marinate fish00:23:04
and cook fish so that's the way the recipes made.
Into that when we marinate fish even all00:23:10
the potatoes is you slice up your
potatoes and put them in a bowl, then you00:23:14
add your ingredients of ginger, garlic,
fresh herbs, coriander, tomatoes, fresh00:23:20
tomatoes, salt, turmeric and it's all mixed
up together and you leave it to marinate00:23:24
usually if you leave it overnight it
makes it more tastier in the morning but00:23:29
it's fast so you can do it here and then
and cook it and just serve it but then00:23:34
you always use cooking oil which you've
burned some Joenne that's a herb. That's00:23:39
the only one that's used for fish or I'm
making the potatoes and then that's all00:23:44
cooked and ready.00:23:49
Way back, my uncle Tommaso had the
original Vittoria Cafe in Brunswick Street.00:23:55
It was his wife who was called Vittoria and
they'd ran that cafe from 1963 until00:24:02
1970 when my father bought the cafe off him.
It was a small place, more of a 'tea room /00:24:09
cafe / ices' kind of place that he
would have had in the very late sixties to00:24:14
early seventies and a very basic menu
cooked by Italians but very little00:24:20
Italian food on the menu. When we first
started there, the most popular00:24:23
dishes were things like gammon steak, liver and onions,00:24:27
liver and bacon a Spanish omelet, steak and chips, mince pie, beans and chips00:24:34
A popular dish back then then was a ham sandwich, a bacon roll.00:24:45
Italian food was about 15% of the menu. People's way of eating out was a bit different back00:24:50
then. Our family, the Crolla family, has
been in Edinburgh for about a hundred years. There00:24:57
was a wave of migration at the turn of
the last century beginning of the 20th00:25:02
and then post-war there was another big
exodus from Italy a lot of our cousins00:25:08
and uncles came over so Leith Walk
really is a melting pot of North00:25:14
African, Mediterranean, European, Scots. I
don't know what proportion of people are00:25:21
Scottish which Leith Walk really has and what' I've noticed now00:25:27
is a lot of delis have opened up, Polish, Eastern European, Spanish restaurants and00:25:31
Portuguese, lots of Indian, but a bit
more regional now, us as Italians00:25:38
- there's lots lot of different
ethnic minorities here. My name is Marta00:25:46
Metzger and I am manager of Phoenix and
Phoenix is a charity working with00:25:51
Central and Eastern European community in
Edinburgh. It was set up by people who00:25:56
newly arrived from Palermo state so
there were educators00:26:01
psychotherapists, psychologists who noticed
that there were problems happening in00:26:06
the new way for Polish people who
arrived to Edinburgh and leave. And there00:26:11
was not enough services for instance for
them already so they created this00:26:15
organisation to help them. I got the
recipe for my great-grandfather -00:26:20
he used to have a colonial shop before
the Second World War00:26:23
although Poland didn't have colonies but we
had all the ideas about taking colonies00:26:28
as well. The recipe survived The Second World War.
After the war my great-grandfather lost00:26:33
his job. It was due to communism but my
father wanted to really keep the00:26:38
tradition so when we were children he started making the gingerbread00:26:43
with us
and once I moved over here I thought00:26:46
that it's something that I can actually
give to my friends because it's in mail00:26:51
it's made for me with a dolphin with all
this tradition so I have quite a lot of00:26:56
Polish friends but also Scottish here so
I'm sharing the love with everyone. So00:27:01
it's a blend of spices; cardamom, ginger,
cloves, nutmeg and all kinds of colonial00:27:09
spices you can imagine. I guess you could
add to it as well. It's a very personal00:27:13
thing so you can kind of combine and
make a whole combination yourself00:27:20
so my gingerbread stays differently
every year, it's almost like a00:27:25
reflection of the day that I'm making it.00:27:35
So we're here today in Out of the Blue where
we are hosting one of our 'conversation00:27:40
cafes'. The 'Leith conversation cafes' is a
project for people who have newly arrived to00:27:46
Edinburgh who want to meet new people
but also learn about services available.00:27:50
Nearly every year we host about 30
nationalities, so we have people from all00:27:55
around the world, all walks of life and
it's great to see them at one table and00:28:01
you know, talk talking about life and
exchanging their experiences. This00:28:14
place first started in 1988 before that
they building I think was a garage and00:28:20
then they would drop that place and turn
into shop that you know today originally00:28:25
it started off as just Chinese cuisine
based on Fiat food or equipment, that sort00:28:29
of thing, but over the years it's all
branched out into oriental stuff. It's00:28:32
not just Chinese customers. There's also
Western Indian, Pakistan, Japanese, Korean00:28:39
every name really. It's been up a long
while and a lot of Asian restaurants00:28:45
they come to us for their supplies. Pretty
much what we probably have that's bigger00:28:51
or smaller Western supermarkets you don't have.00:28:58
We strive to be an authentic Spanish tapas
bar with imported ingredients. Everything00:29:04
is imported from Spain to give the
authenticity and also a laid-back service,00:29:11
laid-back atmosphere. Going back many
many years ago this place used to be the00:29:18
'Dalmeny Bar'; an old pub. We we do
understand that it must be people00:29:25
sentimentally attached to the place but
as soon as you walk through you can see00:29:31
the transformation we have done here.
Well there are a lot of a Spanish00:29:35
restaurants here in Edinburgh but we are
different in a way from everything here.00:29:41
For me, when we opened two and a
half years ago, we were designed to be a00:29:46
pincers and a croquettas bar and then
along this time we've been through a00:29:52
transformation game. Our food is being
very popular and then today if you look00:29:58
at our menu you can find a steak on the
menu and then all the classic Spanish00:30:04
dishes such as tortilla de patatas, through
perimeters a part on paper Sacramento's00:30:10
a pattern and tortilla de patatas, teresa
vino - so you can find all these00:30:16
ingredients in our menu today. So this is
all about sharing with relief community00:30:23
and to understand how it's like to live
in Spain through our food.00:30:33
Jeff and I are from Australia and
Australia has a long history of having00:30:39
Irish and Scottish migrants and one of
the things that the Irish brought to00:30:43
Australia was Irish soda bread and the
Australians turn it into 'damper'.00:30:47
Damper looks a lot like this and this is
in fact a Scottish brand scone which is00:30:54
an adaptation of our damper from our
original breads so it's come full circle00:30:58
and we put local flour and we mill and
sift our own brand from that local00:31:05
multiplayer so the mulcher dweeps that
we get from a farm in Drem, which is00:31:10
only ten miles from here, is milled in
our own little mill and we sift out the00:31:14
brand and that gives it a uniquely
Scottish appeal so it has Scottish00:31:18
ingredients that comes from a long
tradition of Irish soda bread which went00:31:23
to Australia and came back to Scotland
and more importantly back to Leith. Breadshare00:31:28
is all about community baking and baking
for the community so what that means is00:31:32
that we want to make bread accessible to
everybody in the community we want to00:31:36
educate people to understand what's real
bread is all about and why it's00:31:41
nutritious and good for you and why you
can build better and stronger00:31:44
communities through bread. So real bread
is the way bread's been made00:31:49
traditionally for thousands of years and
particularly in this part of Edinburgh00:31:53
and Leith where the flour and
wheat was coming in and the mills were00:31:57
all down here at the Leith docks so it's
kind of serendipitous that we're00:32:02
here and that there's lots of bakeries
and lots of artisan and traditional00:32:06
makers of different food products
re-establishing in Leith.00:33:22
The photography part of the project I've
been involved and has been working with00:33:27
three groups; 'Little Leithers' which is a
group of people who make food together00:33:33
eat the food together and communicate
with each other and chat about00:33:36
anything in life. 'Shakti' which is based in
Albany Street with that group which is a00:33:43
very diverse group people who don't
speak English or very little English and00:33:49
lastly is 'Pilmeny'/'Citadel' joint
project which is a project which00:33:56
involves a cross generational aspect of
young and old. I worked with a Little Leithers00:34:02
group so what I've done with them was I
got them to take some photographs of the00:34:07
process of them making the food at
different stages. The ingredients. so we00:34:12
took them out individually and they
would they would photograph that and00:34:15
from that we selected basically a
documentary of the process from the00:34:21
start of them actually starting from meeting morning and preparing the food,00:34:26
cooking food and then finally to us eating
the food. So it's a small sort of record of00:34:32
that.00:34:35
Photographs that are done by Shakthi -
first we'd ask them to bring in things00:34:39
and objects to do with food which they
could maybe take some pictures of. Now00:34:43
because of the nature of the group then
all that folk don't actually have much.00:34:47
They've left a lot behind so they don't really
have much but some people did bring in00:34:51
food, they brought in cultural things to
do with food and told the stories00:34:57
behind them. For instance,
breaking fast they can eid with their00:35:02
dates and milk, yam and eggs. A
Nigerian woman told me this great00:35:07
story but yam and eggs which I just
loved because it sounded like "ham and eggs"00:35:11
and other similar cultural things.
The Pilmeny/Citadel00:35:16
intergenerational projects that I worked
on was quite different from the00:35:20
other two projects. In respect respect from the
intergenerational aspect that we were00:35:26
working with people from 80 to 8 years
old. We listened to stories that were00:35:30
told about food and we done
some activities. We done some food tasting00:35:35
and blind food tasting and that was quite a
bit of fun. The foods that were used for00:35:39
the blind food tasting were actually
taken from Shakti who we had been working00:35:43
with that week. The foods that were used
to break eid for instance that these00:35:48
people were getting to taste who
probably would never get to taste these00:35:51
things and in the past.
My name is Declan and I've been coming00:35:55
here for six years. I feel like it's been
helping me through the highs and lows in00:36:02
life. Doing the food tasting challenge
is teaching quite a lot of us00:36:09
about cameras. Declan was great fun, loved
taking pictures himself. Took a beautiful00:36:15
picture which we hope to use in the
exhibition. When it came to the food testing,00:36:18
he was one of the ones who really
can I was enthralled to have a shot. I think00:36:22
he was one of the first up there and
he tried everything and that was great.00:36:27
Made it great fun. Fun, exciting and adventurous. And we also worked with the00:36:37
Living Memory Association and the they
were very good and he brought in some00:36:41
some artifacts to show us and to prompt
memories. We went over there and00:36:46
had a very good chat and discussion
with young and old contributing to00:36:51
the different foods that in the past
folk were eating and all this kind of00:36:55
stuff.
I discussed the relevance of and from I00:36:59
managed to get a few people to tell me
their stories. My name is Jean Budge and00:37:05
I come to the Citadel Intergeneration Group -
I've done for eight years. It's a mixture00:37:10
of old and young. We mix together, have
fun together and it's just a great thing00:37:17
to be out and about and help but mix
with the young ones. I hadn't realised00:37:22
the Citadel actually used to be a train
station and Jean's husband had worked from00:37:27
here. He used to come in here it was a
"North Leith Station" (LNAR). He used to come00:37:35
in with the stuff from the docks when the
boats were getting unloaded. It could be00:37:40
perishables. It could be flour, sugar, you
know heavy stuff and they would come in00:37:47
here and then go to the different
destinations it was supposed to go to00:37:51
and this wall would be part of the
station. And she told this really nice00:37:57
story about her husband working in the
docks at one time his train was working00:38:02
from the docks and he picked up some
bananas and they were going to the00:38:05
theater that night so he took her a
banana she described her this was a00:38:09
first banana she'd ever seen in her life
was the first one should ever eaten in00:38:13
her life and she ate this banana this
felt sick, which wasn't what I was00:38:17
expecting her to say. I was expecting her to say it was a good experience, but it was a00:38:20
lovely story. One of the other folks that
were met was George. George is a really00:38:25
interesting guy. He has so many stories.
You could he could write a whole00:38:29
film about him and there were so many
things we could have used. His00:38:33
experiences which we were interested
in of course was in the food and Leith00:38:37
and he'd been the also on boats.
I worked from Leith. I joined the Merchant00:38:43
Navy in Leith. My two brothers, both of
whom did 50 years at sea each also had their00:38:57
Merchant Navy career in Leith, because
Leith at that time gave such an00:39:06
in-depth grounding in how to conduct
yourself as a real person. You're not trendy,00:39:15
you're not fashionable,
you're just somebody that wants to work,00:39:19
put food on the table and bring up a
family. You'd move quite a lot of their00:39:23
whiskey and the produce from Leith
in here, brought sugar to the place and00:39:27
everything. And he brought out this dockers hook, which00:39:32
he told us the story about how he had to
get this made personally by a blacksmith00:39:38
who'd make up the dockers hook, so they'd
all be done individually and he's handed00:39:42
that over to the Living Memory
Association to show others so we00:39:46
managed to borrow that and we had his
photograph taken. When it actually00:39:50
comes to making the portraits themselves
I like to let folk just go into whatever00:39:55
more they do. With certain things it's more
difficult. For instance, with George with00:40:00
the Dockers hook it just looked like
something out of a bad movie with this00:40:04
hook, because it looks like say a violent
object. however at one stage when we're00:40:09
doing it, he slings it over his shoulders
and he said "this is how we used to walk00:40:13
about on the ship with a hook. This is how
you would carry it". And he just brought a00:40:18
slight smile to his face and that was a
picture.00:40:28
And when we designed all this and we
actually started painting, we00:40:32
deliberately left these last two panels
free. We would ask people "what do you00:40:38
think should be in the vacant panels?"
and we got all sorts of responses back.00:40:41
And we decided to make them really a
forward-looking question mark and the00:40:46
composition of this section actually is
based on a big question mark and it00:40:50
shows a sequence of Leith falling into
disrepair and dereliction, people being00:40:55
rehoused out to Granton and Pilton. And
then as you move down through the00:41:00
sequence it shows what in the 1980s was
the current economic regeneration of00:41:06
Leith and the rebuilding of new housing. And also the other aspect to it: the00:41:10
arrival of the wine bar and the Yuppie.
The final panel depicts a scene of00:41:17
doorways opening and people from all
different sections of the community - old00:41:22
people, young people, Sikhs and the newly
arrived professionals all emerging from00:41:29
their doors and reaching out to take
each other's hands and the message00:41:34
really is well "wherever we're
going the one thing we have to do is00:41:38
come together as a community". Yes, I do
feel that the community spirit is still00:41:44
here because there's lots to be involved
in and and people do become involved00:41:52
which is wonderful, you know? The likes of The Drill Hall in Dalmeny Street are trying00:42:00
to give Leith an identity again as
an arts and culture centre. Although00:42:08
there's been huge changes in Leith, I think
the core sense of its own identity has00:42:14
survived. It survived and adapted and
modernised in really quite an exciting00:42:18
and interesting way but I think the
crucial thing is I think it still00:42:22
maintained its links and sense of
continuity from the past.00:42:27
Hopefully I qualify to be considered as a Leither. That would make me00:42:35
very very happy.
I would let someone else make that00:42:40
judgment. There is still absolutely a Leith.
A strong Leith identity. People here00:42:49
identify with Leith. If you go anywhere in
the town and say "where do you come from?" It's a reflex00:42:54
"I'm a Leither". Well, it means you've got an
identity, doesn't it? I don't know if00:43:00
many people say "I'm a Morningsider" or
"I'm a Christophen-sider, but I'm a "Leither".00:43:10
Happy to say "I'm a Leither".00:44:09
"Fiercely proud, welcoming and gregarious."00:44:21
"Interesting, happy, proud."00:44:33
"Community spirit: still alive."00:44:37
"Vibrant, multicultural, developing. Leith is more00:44:41
kind of down to earth or 'real' I guess."00:44:50
"Can't get parked."00:44:59
"Diverse, connected, vibrant, helpful."
"Friendly, cosmopolitan and energetic."00:45:15
I think that everybody's so
friendly - that's the biggest, thing you00:45:19
know? And once you get started talking to
somebody, you know, there's just talk like00:45:24
what I'm doing.00:45:32
This is what they
wanted me to say: "Pure radge, eh?" - is that good?00:45:43
[ok one more time]
One more? Okay. "Pure radge, eh?"00:45:55
To be honest I think the sun will always
shine on Leith,00:46:01
and I hope always does...00:46:05
hope it always does.00:46:13
Go on the bus up to Edinburgh and I can't get
back to Leith quickly enough. You know,00:46:18
mmm, that's gonna be known, maybe I
shouldn't say that but it's true.Description:
The 2017 documentary by Rare Bird Media exploring Leith, migration, food and documenting the two-year 'Leith Moves' project. More information on the project can be found at outoftheblue.org.uk/leith-moves Web: http://rarebirdmedia.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ZZfbZeugU5BTqkYPz49JA
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