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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2020March 6, 2023

For my mum and dad

Please click on each image to play each short film on Edinburgh. These films are for my mum and dad. Mrs Picken, an elderly widow, who day after day, year … Continue reading For my mum and dad

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 153 High Street, 1844, 1904, 1908, 44 Scotland Street, A Far Cry from Kensington, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Abbotsford, ageing, Ageing stone, air-raid shelter, Albyn's Anthology, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Ramsay, Allan Ramsay's House, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Baron Grantley, Baudolino, beautiful summer, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, Bridge of Allan, bring me sunshine, Bute House, By living we learn, Calcutta Cup, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Calton Old Burial Ground, Cammo, Cammo - I want to be part of history, Canongate, Canonmills, canonmills loch, Carubber's Manse, Castlebank Laundry, Charlotte Square, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Christopher Lloyd, Cities in Evolution, Colinton, Constance Gibson, Constance Scott, Constitution Street, Controlled Fury, cradle of the legitimate drama, Craiglockhart, Craigmillar Laundry, Damon 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By Hole Ousia Posted on November 6, 2020March 5, 2023

Graffiti

This is an account of the grafitti of John Gordon, the last of the ‘Third Family’ of Cluny and the “richest commoner in Scotland”. Through John Gordon’s graffiti it is … Continue reading Graffiti

Categories: Deeside Tales, Family history, Omphalos films, Royal Deeside, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1804, 4 St Andrew Square, Aberdeen, AN EARLY SCOTTISH TRAVELLER IN EGYPT, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Braid, Camlet, Charles Gordon of Braid, Cluny, Cluny castle, Deeside, Deeside Tales, Deeside Tales: The stories of a small glen, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, Egypt, Girnoc, Girnock, Graffio, Graffiti, Hole Ousia, In search of John Gordon 1804, Johanna Trotter, John Gordon, Keersmaecker, Mausoleum, My family would seem to stem from the first family of Cluny, Oor Fairmer fae the far side o’ the hill, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Roger O. De Keersmaecker, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, Spelled out in graffiti, St Andrew Square, St Cuthbert's, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, the richest commoner in Scotland, The stories of a small glen, Third Family' of Cluny, Through John Gordon’s graffiti we have been able to reconstruct his voyage up the Nile., to be humbled

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 6, 2020March 5, 2023

The first architecture on the grand scale to appear in the New Town

35 St Andrew Square was built for Andrew Crosbie of Holm [1736-1785]. This house was the first architecture on the grand cale to appear in Edinburgh’s New Town. No 35 … Continue reading The first architecture on the grand scale to appear in the New Town

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1785, 35 St Andrew Square, Advocate, Advocates Close, Allan's Close, Andrew Crosbie, Andrew Crosbie of Holm [1736-1785], Antiquary, Architecture, Atchibald Elliot, Ayrshire Bank, Boswell, Colin McWilliam, Dandie Dinmont, Douglas Heron, Douglas Hotel, Dr Johnson, Dr Peter Gordon, Dumfrieshire, Edinburgh, Elizabeth Barker, Facade crushed by four giant ionic columns, Goldielea, Grefriars Churchyard, Guy Mannering, Henry Dundas, Hole Ousia, Holm, In 1830 it became the Douglas Hotel, New Town, No 35 St Andrew Square was later converted by Archibald Elliot to form the Royal Bank of Scotland's head office, Parliament House, Patrick Geddes, Paulus Pleydell, Peddie and Kinnear, Peter Gordon, Queen Victoria, rebel antiquary, Robert Adam, Ross Fountain, Royal Bank of Scotland, Social maverick, St Andrew Square, The Antiquary, The first architecture on the grand scale to appear in the New Town, The Rebel Antiquary, Walter Scott

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