Your memories: Childhood caught on a postcard

It WAS just a regular outing for brothers Andrew and James Whitecross back in 1956, playing near Granton Square as they often did.

But that day they were approached by a photographer and their childhood was forever captured on a postcard (below), sold to thousands of holidaymakers, making it one of the most popular images of the area.

"Jay and I were coming up the steps from the square when a guy approached us to ask if we'd like to be in a postcard," explains Andrew, who now lives in Cramond. "Of course, we said yes, so he told us to go back down the steps and walk up them as we just had."

Nine-year-old Andrew, the older and taller of the brothers, rushed to Cook's paper shop on West Granton Road every day for six months, eager to get his hands on the postcard.

Finally it appeared in a rack, along with other souvenirs of Edinburgh.

"We were so excited," he recalls.

Andrew and his late brother, always known as "Jay", had recently moved to Granton with their parents and siblings John and Maisie.

"We moved from a tiny flat on Tennant Street in Leith with a shared toilet to a three-bedroom house in Granton Crescent," he recalls.

"My brothers and I were always going fishing. We loved it.

"So many people will have seen this picture, but I doubt many will have known the story behind the two boys in it. Now they will."