Radio Ga Ga Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Tram jam, due to inconsiderate parking😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister T Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 1 hour ago, Radio Ga Ga said: Tram jam, due to inconsiderate parking😀 But no pot holes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EIEIO Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 10 minutes ago, Mister T said: But no pot holes! Cobbles / setts less prone to pot holes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EIEIO Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 1 hour ago, Radio Ga Ga said: Tram jam, due to inconsiderate parking😀 Leith Street? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister T Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 52 minutes ago, EIEIO said: Cobbles / setts less prone to pot holes. Also good for riots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 1 hour ago, EIEIO said: Leith Street? Yes. I think the canopy on the left is where the Leith Street entrance to Roomzzz is now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indianajones Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Best thread on the forum. Should be documented and put in the museum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daktari Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 East end of Princes Street, late 1800's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWJ Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 5 hours ago, Daktari said: East end of Princes Street, late 1800's. You can see why some people hated the N.B. when it was built. It dominates that end of Princes Street. It’s part of the fabric of the city now but when new it would have seemed enormous and out-of-scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Footballfirst Posted Wednesday at 16:10 Share Posted Wednesday at 16:10 From Lost Edinburgh A very rare image of the south side of the Grassmarket dating to before 1859. The roofs of the upper right hand quarter is the row of houses up to Heriot Bridge which was the original entrance into Heriots Hospital School. The buildings facing are very ramshackle and don't look long for this earth. It's a wonderful image from the photo album of Dr Thomas Keith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seymour M Hersh Posted Wednesday at 18:59 Share Posted Wednesday at 18:59 On 22/04/2024 at 10:16, Daktari said: East end of Princes Street, late 1800's. I wonder what happened to the buildings that became the North British Hotel? Fire or some sort of damage or were the just knocked down for the building of the NB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daktari Posted Wednesday at 22:45 Share Posted Wednesday at 22:45 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Lyon Posted Thursday at 10:13 Share Posted Thursday at 10:13 18 hours ago, Footballfirst said: From Lost Edinburgh A very rare image of the south side of the Grassmarket dating to before 1859. The roofs of the upper right hand quarter is the row of houses up to Heriot Bridge which was the original entrance into Heriots Hospital School. The buildings facing are very ramshackle and don't look long for this earth. It's a wonderful image from the photo album of Dr Thomas Keith. Much later photo of this location showing the Volunteer Arms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Striker Posted Thursday at 22:42 Share Posted Thursday at 22:42 On 01/05/2024 at 17:10, Footballfirst said: From Lost Edinburgh A very rare image of the south side of the Grassmarket dating to before 1859. The roofs of the upper right hand quarter is the row of houses up to Heriot Bridge which was the original entrance into Heriots Hospital School. The buildings facing are very ramshackle and don't look long for this earth. It's a wonderful image from the photo album of Dr Thomas Keith. Thats an incredible glimpse back in time. Life must have been unimaginably hard back then. No sanitation or running water or central heating in your flat, a daily grind of walking to a shop to buy meagre foodstuffs to get by. Most jobs would involve hard physical work. Disease and death never far away. For all our moans about life today, we've got it easy compared to these poor souls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daktari Posted 12 hours ago Share Posted 12 hours ago 13 hours ago, Lone Striker said: For all our moans about life today, we've got it easy compared to these poor souls. And it's not that far away. My mother is 94 and her grandparents lived in conditions not unlike that. The big change came in her parents (my own grandparents ) lifetime through the 20th century. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Footballfirst Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago 47 minutes ago, Daktari said: And it's not that far away. My mother is 94 and her grandparents lived in conditions not unlike that. The big change came in her parents (my own grandparents ) lifetime through the 20th century. I can recall visiting my grandmother in the early 1960s, who stayed in a miners row in a Lanarkshire village. There were no indoor toilet or bath/shower facilities. You used the kitchen sink to get washed, or in the case of a young child it was a zinc bath in front of the fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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