
Tag: Lochend


The thread about the Lochend Steel Houses; Edinburgh’s first prefabricated houses, why some people didn’t want them and why others didn’t want to build them

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

The thread about Hawkhill (the hill that isn’t there) and Hawkhill House (the house that isn’t there) and the marvellous things that once went on there

The thread about Lochend Loch, why it is named after itself and why the Council tried to fill it in but found that they couldn’t

The thread about the water supply to old Leith, why it never really worked and what you can see of it today

The thread about the de Lestalrics and yet more early history of Restalrig and the Logans
