
Category: 18th Century
Threads involving the 18th Century


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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