The Cockatoo

**Killiehibbie** · 08-07-2019 06:10 PM

Can anybody tell me how long there was a pub/restaurant on this site?

**~~MSK~~** · 08-07-2019 06:17 PM

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Can anybody tell me how long there was a pub/restaurant on this site?

Dont know how long but my eldest Daughter is almost 30 and we took her there when she was around 7 years old

**Killiehibbie** · 08-07-2019 06:26 PM

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Dont know how long but my eldest Daughter is almost 30 and we took her there when she was around 7 years old

I reckon it was there in the 70's but my dad says i'm imagining it.

**~~Peevemor~~** · 08-07-2019 06:37 PM

I drunk there once or twice a week in 1986/87 (on the way back from pipe band practice at the Woolmet training centre). I don't remember it being spanking new then.

**~~MSK~~** · 08-07-2019 06:50 PM

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I drunk there once or twice a week in 1986/87 (on the way back from pipe band practice at the Woolmet training centre). I don't remember it being spanking new then.

Was it not a bikers haunt many years back ?

***pollution*** · 08-07-2019 06:55 PM

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Can anybody tell me how long there was a pub/restaurant on this site?

1920's, if not longer. It was built as a blacksmith in approx 1850.

The bikers' place was the Alpha Inn further east in Millerhill. They flew an Isle of Man flag outside.

The Cockatoo was also called The Marmalade Cat.

**Killiehibbie** · 08-07-2019 07:28 PM

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1920's, if not longer. It was built as a blacksmith in approx 1850.

The bikers' place was the Alpha Inn further east in Millerhill. They flew an Isle of Man flag outside.

The Cockatoo was also called The Marmalade Cat.

That sounds more like it. I think Marmalade Cat was early 90's.

**Saturday Boy** · 08-07-2019 11:22 PM

I can remember stopping off for a pint at the Cockatoo with my late father, in the late 1970s.

It was a convenient stop between Bonnyrigg and Easter Road.

It was Skol lager and Diamond Heavy in those days. The old regulars used to sit around the fire and they would often put a hot poker into their pint. That and a pan drop in a pint of lager.

You youngsters don’t know you’re living .