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June 6, 2023 threadinburgh

The thread about Spuds and Hippos: Leith and Newhaven’s key part in building the Mulberry Harbours for Operation Overlord in World War 2

June 3, 2023 threadinburgh

The thread about the Forth Dam; a forgotten and failed 1920s megaproject to cross the Firth by blocking it up

June 1, 2023 threadinburgh

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

"Shellycoat, Shellycoat, Gang Awa Hame, I Cry Nae Yer Mercy, I Fear Nae Yer Name"
May 25, 2023June 1, 2023 threadinburgh

The thread about the Pennybap Stane, an enchanted rock on the Seafield foreshore that is used to summon the bogle “Shellycoat”

A Scotch Pie
May 18, 2023May 18, 2023 threadinburgh

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

A wartime train station by night
May 5, 2023May 5, 2023 threadinburgh

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

Robert the Bruce, aground
April 30, 2023April 30, 2023 threadinburgh

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)

Writ of Summons
April 29, 2023April 29, 2023 threadinburgh

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

Smokey Brae
April 28, 2023April 28, 2023 threadinburgh

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

Westfield Court flats
April 23, 2023April 23, 2023 threadinburgh

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

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