The Northern Club

The above photograph, from the Trove archive, was taken in 1950 and shows the entrance to The Northern Club, 91 George Street, Edinburgh. What follows, is a most incomplete timeline, for The Northern Club:


1 June 1812, Caledonian Mercury:


7 May 1821, Edinburgh Caledonian Mercury:


3 February 1847, The Scotsman:


1851, Ordnance Survey map:


8 December 1853, Edinburgh Caledonian Mercury:


15 February 1861, Caledonian Mercury:


30 January 1869, Edinburgh Evening Courant:


23 July 1872, Glasgow Herald:


5 December 1873, Illustrated Berwick Journal:


1876, Suicide of Alexander Duncan, 91 George Street:


16 December 1876, The Scotsman:


1886: Alexander Anderson, formerly Clubmaster of the Northern Club [the informant on his death certificate, William Cousine, built our house Mossgrove]:


29 December 1954, Edinburgh Evening News:


29 December 1954, Edinburgh Evening News:


14 November 1955, The Scotsman:


16 February 1956, Edinburgh Evening News:


Thomas Hamilton, 7th Earl of Haddington:

Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk:


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