When a’body kent Kate!
The above article is from the Dundee Courier, 4 February 1999. It is about an old Perth ‘worthy’ known as ‘Blue Caum Kate’. The photograph of her was taken by … Continue reading When a’body kent Kate!
Category: Scotland
Scotland today and Scotland past
1867 Improvement Act: St Mary’s Street, Edinburgh
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
‘Of course you want someone like Miss Jean Brodie in your life’
In one of last Sunday’s papers, I read with interest about a: 4th October 2026, Scotland on Sunday: In this feature article, David Harrower, the playwright of a new stage … Continue reading ‘Of course you want someone like Miss Jean Brodie in your life’
Granton: ‘out with the old and in with the new’
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’
Edinburgh Gas Light Company
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
the faintest lightest nearly not-there
22 April 1940, Edinburgh Evening News:
‘There had never been a bolder retail building in Edinburgh’
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’
Sea Shanties from Seven Seas
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