Category: Meadows & Marchmont
The thread about the Edinburgh Emigration Home for Destitute Children and the evangelical women who helped “poor homeless and destitute” girls to new lives in Canada
The thread about the Sciennes School Strike of 1925; why it was stoked by political sectarianism and how a group of mothers stood up to the authorities and won
The thread about the irrepressible Mr Binko’s Electric Railway; his famous passengers; the first electric tramway in the country; and his endless financial woes that ended it all
The thread about some churches in Marchmont and the history of the German-speaking congregation of Edinburgh
The thread about the worst school in the world; why it is unfairly linked with a very different Edinburgh establishment of the same name; and what it has to do with the shortest serving PM of the 20th century
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