


The thread about the humble Scotch Pie; what makes it Scotch, what it is not, its history and a surprising aficionado

The thread about “Operation Hummer I Nord”; the bumbling WW2 German espionage attempt that was stopped in its tracks at Port Gordon and Waverley stations

The thread about the “High and Dry Club”; 30 years of the car ferries of the Firth of Forth running aground again and again (and again)

The thread about the taking of the SS “Alster” as a wartime prize in Leith; her hectic part in the Norwegian Campaign and the Battle of the Atlantic; life and death survival at sea; and an unlikely German sea captain

The thread about Smokey Brae; how it got its name and how it made a showpiece public housing scheme “unfit for human occupation”

The thread about the “other” (and original!) Banana Flats; a pioneering modernist council housing block in Gorgie

The thread about a 1949 plan to demolish the Grassmarket and replace it with a “Festival District”

The thread about a charity shop book that lead to the story of Captain William Thomson Dawson and the loss of the Leith tanker “Peder Bogen”

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