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Category: 18th Century

Threads involving the 18th Century

January 5, 2023January 5, 2023 threadinburgh

The thread about the Twelfth Day of Christmas; the Drum and Drum House

January 4, 2023January 5, 2023 threadinburgh

The thread about the Eleventh Day of Christmas; the Pipes of Pipe Street

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 threadinburgh

The thread about the Ninth Day of Christmas; the Lady behind Lady Fife’s house, well and brae and what she has to do with Primrose

December 30, 2022December 31, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the Sixth Day of Christmas; the geese of the Guse Dub

December 28, 2022December 28, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the Second Day of Christmas; a Leith Dovecot connection

December 25, 2022December 28, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the First Day of Christmas; an Edinburgh Pear Tree connection

December 5, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the wealthy inventor, the Bard, the first steamboat, the paddle-powered Georgian warship, the Kings of Denmark and Sweden and what any of this has to do with turnips

December 4, 2022 threadinburgh

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”

November 30, 2022December 1, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the problem of sewage disposal in 19th century Edinburgh and Leith, and how something ended up being done about it

November 30, 2022December 4, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about Cammo; how it got its name, who owned it and the curious and curiouser tale of its eccentric and reclusive final residents

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