Chris Gets Closer To Leith
What started as a light-hearted quest for Chris Neill is turning into a real-life family detective story. Chris is probably best known to ±«Óãtv Radio Scotland listeners as the pithy contributor on MacAulay & Co and Fred's roving sidekick during the Edinburgh Festival shows. On Friday, however, we aired 25 Per Cent Leith - a one-off programme in which Chris toured the streets of Leith trying to prove he had a genuine Scottish connection. That's despite the fact he sounds every inch the London boy.
Now, in what he describes as "the power of Radio Scotland" Chris has unearthed up some genuine family connections after receiving an email from a listener in Dalkeith who turns out to be a distance cousin of his father. Now, in an exchange of emails, they've managed to plug some of the gaps in their family history.
It seem Chris might be a Leith man after all (skipping a few generations, of course).
Chris also sent me the above photograph of his great uncle's sweet shop in Edinburgh@s Stockbridge. It dates from about 1940.
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