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December 31, 2022January 1, 2023 threadinburgh

The thread about the Seventh Day of Christmas; Sven Swans a Swanstoning

December 7, 2022December 7, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the Regent Road; why it had to be built and why the usually infallible Robert Stevenson made a mistake at one end which changed the top of Easter Road forever

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The thread about the Interceptor Sewers; how Victorian Edinburgh cleaned up the Water of Leith. Twice.

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The thread about the Balfours of Pilrig; which James Balfour is which and what they have to do with the Stevensons and Melvilles

September 15, 2022December 7, 2022 threadinburgh

The thread about the origins of London Road, why all is not quite what it seems with its alignment and whose fault that is

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