April 23, 2023April 23, 2023 threadinburgh

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

December 6, 2022December 7, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about two very different Edinburgh schools that were built at the same time, for two very different visions of secondary education (and why Boroughmuir was built wrong. Twice.)

October 14, 2022January 10, 2023 threadinburgh

The thread about Gorgie and Dalry and some of the bits in between; the derivation of their place names; some of their early history and an infamous murderer

October 11, 2022January 10, 2023 threadinburgh

The thread about Rosemount, the long gone Georgian villa in Edinburgh’s West End that lent its name to two radically different model housing schemes

September 14, 2022October 17, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about how there was more than one brewery opened in Edinburgh in the last 150 years, and what you can see of some of them now