Category: Old Town
The thread about an old gravestone in Leith, the King’s Botanist, a bungled attempt to capture Edinburgh Castle for the Jacobites and a death by “surfeit of figs”
The thread about the problem of sewage disposal in 19th century Edinburgh and Leith, and how something ended up being done about it
The thread about Bread Street and whether its name has anything to do with medieval bread or baking
The thread about three old photographs of Canal Street railway station and what they can show us of mid-19th century Edinburgh
The thread about the sad end of young Thomas Aikenhead, the last person to be executed for blasphemy in Britain
The thread about a remarkable view of Edinburgh in 1750, at a time when the landscape of the City was about to be changed forever, and what we can see in it that has long gone
The thread about the Royal Mint of Scotland; what connects it to a pioneering school for the city’s poorest children, and how it has continued to serve marginalised people in the city
The thread about David Allan’s watercolours of Edinburgh workers in the 18th century; what they looked like and what their jobs entailed
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