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Shanks said no
1 hour ago, Lemongrab said:

 

From what I've seen on other maps it seems to have changed to Cockburn Street between 1863 and 1864.  

 

In the same period, King George IV Bridge, appearing on the above map, changes to plain old George IV Bridge.

& North Bridge was North Bridge Street

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Shanks said no

I didn't recognise the name Bridewell in the top corner of the map beside the jail so I had a search

 

Alexander Nasmith - detiail from a painting of 1825 of Edinburgh from Calton Hill

 

 A little-known building by the renowned Scottish architect Robert Adam (1728-1792). The building is the Bridewell, a new jail for Edinburgh, built between 1791 and 1796 on Calton Hill on a crag overlooking the city. It was demolished in the late nineteenth century.

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More of Bridewell

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Edinburgh's need for a Bridewell or similar institution is mentioned in an early nineteenth century book Modern Athens, quoting from an earlier account by Maitland.

"Edinburgh", says Maitland "being become, as it were, the common receptacle for the strolling poor, lazy beggars, idle vagrants, and common prostitutes, who crowded hither from all parts of the kingdom, wherefore it was, in the year 1632, judged necessary to erect a House of Correction, for employing ans publishing these disorderly persons, and pests of mankind"

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40 minutes ago, The Frenchman Returns said:

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Haymarket

 

The middle photo is pretty awesome.

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Shanks said no
3 minutes ago, The Real Maroonblood said:

The middle photo is pretty awesome.

Caption say 

Haymarket Shed  -  around 1932

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The Real Maroonblood
5 minutes ago, The Frenchman Returns said:

Caption say 

Haymarket Shed  -  around 1932

At first I thought it was Smokey Brae.

 

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Shanks said no

Duddingston Curling ClubCurling was popular

 

Curling House at Duddingston Loch

Curling House at Duddingston Loch
Octagonal curling house designed by the architect, William Playfair, in 1823 for the Duddingston Curling Society. The upper floor was used as a studio by the Reverend John Thomson, landscape artist and minister of the church from 1805-40.He named his studio 'Edinburgh', allowing his housekeeper to say that he had 'gone to Edinburgh' if a parishioner called when he was painting. It lies on the shores of Duddingston Loch, a nature reserve near to Holyrood Park and below Arthur's Seat.

 

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luckyBatistuta
28 minutes ago, FWJ said:

Which one is the Reverend Robert Walker?

 

Think that could be him on the thinner ice, up the top left of the photo, beside the 4 young boys.

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Montgomery Brewster
7 minutes ago, luckyBatistuta said:

 

Think that could be him on the thinner ice, up the top left of the photo, beside the 4 young boys.

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Radio Ga Ga
Just now, Carl Fredrickson said:

 

A great photo. Where is it?

Demolished to make way for Guthrie Street from Chambers Street down to the Cowgate 

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Carl Fredrickson
2 hours ago, Radio Ga Ga said:

Demolished to make way for Guthrie Street from Chambers Street down to the Cowgate 

 

Cheers. It looked similar to the street from Greyfriers Bobby down to the Cowgate so i wasnt too far off. I love the photo.

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34 minutes ago, JT1959 said:

The demolished street. Was that Glen Street?

 

Horse Wynd, I think.   Guthrie Street was originally called New College Wynd, which firts appears on maps around the same time as the current Glen Street (off Lauriston Place) appears (1871).

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Maroon Sailor
On 13/03/2019 at 08:14, Montgomery Brewster said:

Wow. Nice. 

Rikki Fulton on at the kings panto 

 

Jack Milroy as well unless it was a production of Jack and the Beanstalk

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3 hours ago, Radio Ga Ga said:

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The old you wait ages for a bus then two come along at once

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5 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

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I think he's expected to reach Peterborough tomorrow. 

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Montgomery Brewster
50 minutes ago, Maroon Sailor said:

 

Jack Milroy as well unless it was a production of Jack and the Beanstalk

Yes Jack Milroy .1981 I believe 

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