Category: Industries
The thread about Tod’s Mill, the biggest and most modern in Scotland, which survived Leith’s largest ever fire (and explosions) to bring vast wealth to its charitable owners
The thread about the Gibsons of Leith; the enterprising fish smokers who survived shipwreck at the ends of the earth to become pioneers of aviation in Scotland
The thread about the Fourth Day of Christmas; the Birds, Bards or Bords of Burdiehouse
The thread about the great untold engineering feat of Edinburgh’s 1970s Interceptor Sewers and the grand scheme to clean up the Firth of Forth
The thread about the little suburban “Jewel Carriageway”, how its curious street names came to be and what became of a lost mining village
The thread about Leith’s disappeared Eagle Buildings; the company that supplied all the cement for the Forth and first Tay Bridges; and what has been watching you from up high on Rose Street
The thread about an old photo of the Shore in Leith, exploring the myriad of details that it contains and looking for clues to try and date when it was taken
The thread about Leith shipping owners, their pivotal part in 20th century industrial whaling, the penguins of Edinburgh Zoo and the city’s “homes for heroes”
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