Looking through old family photos and there is one from 60/70's in the Buchanan Hotel. Anyone shed any light on where this was? Think it was in Leith somewhere Cheers
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23-07-2020 12:31 PM #1
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Buchanan Hotel
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23-07-2020 12:36 PM #2
If it's the Ken Buchanan it was ferry road opposite ainslie park. Went to a few parties there back in the day.
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Drove past it when we were up in February and had forgotten it's latest name!
Just talking about the place, the wife's 21st birthday party was held there, to name but one event. We couldn't recall when Ken Buchanan gave it up but thought mid eighties?
Guess the 60s/70's probably rules out the Ken Buchanan?
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It was a great place to be in on a Sunday back in the days when Hotels scooped up the punters as local bars stayed closed on a Sunday
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23-07-2020 02:26 PM #6
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Cheers guys.
I took a guess with the 60/70's thing. Just looked old🤣
It was an old red flurescent light in the window.
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23-07-2020 02:32 PM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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23-07-2020 02:38 PM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The Peacock Hotel with a disco was the other nearby Sunday drinkies.
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23-07-2020 02:41 PM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Ken was a great world champion and a sound guy too.
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23-07-2020 06:27 PM #14
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Opposite the Ferry road entrance to Victoria park. Uses to drink there on a Sunday. Went there for a wake in the 90's and it seemed a shadow of its former self. Dont know what its like now.
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23-07-2020 08:12 PM #15
Talking of Ken Buchanan I heard recently that he isn't doing too well. He was in hospital at that time and I believe there was talk of him perhaps needing ongoing care.
Hopefully he is on the mend now. One of our greatest ever sportsmen.
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08-08-2020 07:19 PM #20
ken is now in a leith nursing home, can't do a link but it's on a site called boxingnewsonline.net or the I LOVE LEITH fb page
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09-08-2020 08:27 PM #23
Sad to read this. I didn't know anything about him until recently if I'm honest but having read a few articles now it's such a shame a great sportsmen like him is going through this.
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25-08-2020 01:45 PM #25This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
sorry missed this, do you know if he's just been admitted temporarily or permanent ?
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25-08-2020 03:26 PM #27This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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25-07-2022 07:28 PM #28
Drove past the hotel earlier and it looks like it's closed down. Was it actually called the Buchanan Hotel back then? I seem to remember it as the Gosford but I imagine it's had plenty of names.
I guess, like many retired sportsmen before him, running a bar wasn't a wise move for Buchanan. I watched a documentary about him fairly recently. He was a smart bloke and clearly a phenomenal sportsman. Very sad what happened to him.
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14-08-2022 08:09 PM #29
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-62543348
Buchanan statue unveiled. Looks good.
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15-08-2022 10:43 AM #30This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Great to see Ken looking so well though.
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