
Category: Transportation


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

The thread about a charity shop book that lead to the story of Captain William Thomson Dawson and the loss of the Leith tanker “Peder Bogen”

The thread about the Edinburgh aviation craze of 1910, when local aviators tried – with varying degrees of success – to reach for the skies

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 København; the enigmatic Leith-built sailing ship that mysteriously disappeared in the South Atlantic, never to be seen again

The thread about the Ratho Rail Crash of 1917; “an unfortunate illustration of the danger of taking things for granted”

The thread about the Fifth Day of Christmas; A theme of Five and Golden but not rings

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