History of Leith, Edinburgh

Views of Edinburgh Castle from the past

Plan of Edinburgh Castle 1883 (more…)

Some famous Edinburgh characters from the Past.

Sir John Gladstone father of William Gladsone the famous Victorian Prime Minister

Lord Kames and Hugo Arnot-from a 18th century handbill entitled “Two shadows in conversation”
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IF YOU stand on a quiet cobbled side street in Leith and listen, you might just hear the tick of an old grandfather clock or the creak of a barley sugar chest emanating from the windows of the five storey warehouse that is home to one of the largest selections of antiques in the country.
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Edinburgh from the South 1650 showing Leith

Edinburgh from St Cuthbert’s to St Giles 1670. From “Old and New Edinburgh, 1883, James Grant. From a view by Hollar.

Taken from James Grants “Old and New Edinburgh” published 1883. Many of the buildings don’t exist now.

Arthur Seat Edinburgh
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These pictures were taken from Old and New Edinburgh by James Grant 1883. Some of the buildings still exist however many have disappeared from the Edinburgh street scene

Barclay Church and Wrights Houses
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A BLOODSTAINED shirt worn by the last Russian tsar in an early assassination attempt is to go on display in Edinburgh.

The summer exhibition at the Royal Museum, Nicholas and Alexandra – the Last Tsar and Tsarina, will showcase the treasures of the Russian royal family, who were executed by a firing squad in 1918.

IMAGINE if the world had been brought up to believe that the tales of Harry Potter were factual truth. Would it make the Harry Potter books any less readable if it was subsequently discovered that JK Rowling had written them herself? Would it really diminish her reputation to discover she was the creative genius behind the tales?
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IT was described by George IV as “the best drawing room in Europe”. Now the Signet Library in Edinburgh, at the heart of the nation’s legal network in Parliament Square, is being promoted as the country’s ultimate events venue.
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