It was an expressive silence

One of my next poems will be on Dickson’s Close, Edinburgh. It will be narrated by a paperboy [when I was young I used to deliver the Edinburgh Evening News]What follows is material from the archives that I have collected to help me write a poem. I intend to title this poem: ‘It was an expressive silence’.

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Trove archive:

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1797 map by Frederik De Wit [Dickson’s close has been highighted white]:

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1851 Ordnance Survey map: Dickson’s close [picked out in light blue]:

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9 July 1886, Edinburgh Evening News:

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25 January 1888, Edinburgh Evening News:

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18 July 1893, Edinburgh Evening News:

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6 March 1900, Edinburgh Evening News:

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Photographs from the Trove archive: