The Signal Tower and Mylnes Land,Shore
The Signal Tower c1900
Th area of the Signal Tower 1822
February 29, 2008
An ancient Signal Tower in Tolbooth Wynd
Near to the top of the Old Tolbooth Wynd an ancient signal Tower once stood and can be seen in an old engraving below.
It was furnished with little port holes at the top resembling those used for muskets in the past and can be seen in the old Border peel towers and fortalices. Unfortunately not much is known about the building but it may have been a look out tower for watching for merchant ships entering the harbour. It is possible that the structure predates the Mylne Signal Tower of 1685 which possibly replaced the lookout Tower in Tolbooth Wynd.
Scottish lawmakers urged to posthumously pardon ‘witches’
EDINBURGH (AFP) — Lawmakers in Scotland are being asked to push for a posthumous pardon of everyone found guilty under ancient witchcraft laws, including a spiritualist who was convicted during World War II.
One petition, signed online by 206 people, calls for members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) to urge the executive in Edinburgh to appeal to Britain’s interior minister to reconsider a previous refusal to pardon Helen Duncan. for more click here
February 28, 2008
South Leith Kirkyard
The view from the side of the church, looking across the graveyard towards … South Leith Parish Church now its own own website at www.slpc.co.uk. for more click here
STS. JOHN DAYS. June 24- December 27
By history, custom, tradition and ritualistic requirements, the Craft holds dear the days of St. John the Baptist on June 24, and St. John the Evangelist on December 27. A lodge which forgets either forfeits a precious link with the past and loses an opportunity for the renewal of allegiance to everything in Freemasonry symbolized by these Patron Saints. No satisfactory explanation has as yet been advanced to explain why operative Masons adopted two Christian saints, when St. Thomas, the patron of architecture and building, was available. for more click here
Grand Masonic Lodge of Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Antient, Free and Accepted Masons. for more click here
