Category: By Century
The century or centuries covered by the main topics within each thread
The thread about the Forth Dam; a forgotten and failed 1920s megaproject to cross the Firth by blocking it up
The thread about the “Study of the Diet of the Labouring Classes in Edinburgh”; what the poor of the Canongate’s slums were eating and spending in 1901
The thread about the Pennybap Stane, an enchanted rock on the Seafield foreshore that is used to summon the bogle “Shellycoat”
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”
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