being and becoming in the world
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I have been exploring this wonderful collection in the Trove archive: The photographs are by father and son. The father was George Chrystal [1851-1911], Professor of Mathematics at the University … Continue reading The Chrystal family
Dundee Courier, 19 March 1890:
The photograph [above] taken by Dr Francis Maxwell Chrystal, fascinates me. I admire the way he never excludes ‘passing life’ from his photographs. It is one of the ‘Chrystal collection’ … Continue reading 1867 Improvement Act: St Mary’s Street, Edinburgh
In my previous post I shared some of the history of Edinburgh Gas Light Company and that it relocated around the turn of the 19c to Granton. This led me … Continue reading Granton: ‘out with the old and in with the new’
This delightful old photograph of the Edinburgh Gas Light Company is crammed with the workers who brought light to the night-time streets of Edinburgh: In Indexing this photograph, Trove provide … Continue reading Edinburgh Gas Light Company
Gordon Stevenson in an article in the Herald, 12th May 2016, said of St Cuthberts Co-operative Society, Bread Street Edinburgh: “There had never been a bolder retail building in Edinburgh. … Continue reading ‘There had never been a bolder retail building in Edinburgh’
On a recent walk around the foot of Leith I came across Leith Dockers Club at No 17 Academy Street [this street was formerly known as Morton Street]. Behind a … Continue reading Sea Shanties from Seven Seas
Trove archive: Ross Fountain, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh: At the time of the Covid-19 Lockdown, I researched the history of the Ross fountain. I copy this, in full, below: Daniel … Continue reading Lost Art Conservation Workshop