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‘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
Lost Art Conservation Workshop
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
Usher Hall
I came across the above photograph in the Trove archive. It was taken by Dr Francis Maxwell Chrystal when he attended the laying of the ‘foundation and memorial stone’ by … Continue reading Usher Hall