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By Hole Ousia Posted on October 6, 2026October 6, 2026

Window Cleaning Stuff

My daughter has recently moved to Leith and her flit has given me an opportunity to explore her new neighbourhood. It has been wonderful to discover that the ‘tired old’ … Continue reading Window Cleaning Stuff

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, Time passesTags: Dairy, Edinburgh, Ghost signs, incomplete, Leith, Lorne Street, Quarryholes, renaissance, revival, shop windows, Window cleaning
By Hole Ousia Posted on September 7, 2026September 7, 2026

Rotterdam Street

Interested in architecture and design, I came across this architect’s sketch in the Trove archive. It was drawn for Fred Shearer Ltd, Rotterdam Street, Thurso. Archive material about Fred Shearer … Continue reading Rotterdam Street

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, Time passesTags: architect, Draper, Fred Shearer, Rotterdam Street, shop windows, shops, Thurso, Trove, Wick
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 19, 2026

MAD BUYER

117 London Road Edinburgh [sketch from a Trove photograph taken in the early 1980s]

Categories: Progress hardly broke its stride, Scotland, Time passesTags: advert, advertisement, advertising, commercialisation, Edinburgh, MAD BUYER, shop windows, shops, sketches, television, Trove, tv
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 11, 2026

A bit of retail . . .

A selection of shop fronts from the Trove archive:

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Time passesTags: Edinburgh, Glasgow, GRAFTONS, Local time passed into history, Radio, retail, retail therapy, shop windows, shops, sixty minute cleaners, sixty years since, television, Trove, Typewriters
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