Talk Porty ~ Portobello

Really looking forward to you opening Nina, best of luck with it. Edinburgh Gold - brilliant!

See you when you open,

Mark

100% agree it expensive, only reason I can think of is the expense of closing roads and hiring all the pa equipment for all the bands. Must be pricey. I thankfully managed to get free entry so happy days

Possibly but they have a beer tent and live gig at the end in Holyrood Park so had to enter :-) Relieved that there are road closures though, can't have people running across live roads. That would almost be as mad as getting children to play chicken on a dual carrigeway to get the school, imagine P...

Just a heads up that this race is on this Sunday and parts of Porty High St are closed.

Ill be running it so give me a shout if you see me

See the event website for info or there is an article in todays EEN about it.

http://uk.competitor.com/edinburgh

Check this out if you are into cycling, sounds great.

I am not involved, just helping spread the word

Mark

http://porto-velo.com/

thanks Sarah, appreciated!

It doesnt say how to sign up for them, do I just turn up?

wow! i am impressed, excellent. Any beach/street tidy ups you hear about let me know please, I am def keen to be involved. Cheers and have a nice weekend

good to see action has been taken to open them. Will the council pay to have them repainted? I will do it myself to improve my area

you can get me on markatrunwithmarkdotcom

i tried to but says they are too large, you got an email I can send them to if you can resize? Im not very good with this kind of thing

Hi there My Aunt just sent me a couple of picture from the Gala day (circa 1991?) I was on the float with my Gran, Aunt and Brother. Although you cant really see us in the pictures. I remember it being a great day out, maybe thats just me being nostalgic? Has there ever been any chat about setting t...

Im for it....I think but as long as it is not exactly where the wheel is places in the picture. I just bought a house because of the view out to the beach and one side of my view is being blocked by the extension to Towerbank Primary, this would completely block out my view if it was placed where it...

I have two ideas, one is a running shop, theres nothing to serve the local people in porty, musselburgh, joppa, nothfield etc. If im in Porty and wany proper running shoes i have to head to the nearest place which is up Lothian Road, Bruntsfield etc. What do you think about a sports/running shop in ...

I am looking at opening up premises on the high street in 2012, have an idea that the local community might love. All hush hush for now, need to keep an eye out for premises up for rent.

Will post here when the wheels are in motion

Mark

Hi there

I heard a rumor that the chippy on the beach has shut down...is this true?

I will check tomorrow but cant wait to find out...its legendary!

Thanks
Mark

thanks for the heads up! Never knew that group existed, have just joined

Thanks guys, I am just greatful to have such a substantial space of greenery that is being developed for the better instead of being replaced by housing.

Hi there I was contacted by Friends of the Figgate Park to help get more votes for the park. It is up for the award of "UK's Best park" we have 90 votes which puts us in a position at the top of the tables. Can you please vote via this link and post to Friends/Family? Kind regards Mark http://www.ke...

Wow! Thanks for letting me know, these are brilliant!

Hey

Just wanted to share a link to this facebook group called "Lost Edinburgh"

I know some of you wont be on Facebook but you dont have to be, some incredible old snaps of Porty on this site.

Enjoy

https://www.facebook.com/lostedinburgh#!/lostedinburgh

Hey, I have long been baffled by the public toilets on Bath Street. When I was a boy they were usually empty and dirty and they still are to this day. I agree that something could be done to make them more useful to the local area. How do we go about this? I am new to this site, moving to Portobello...