The history of Leith and Restalrig are closely tied together. This week we look at how Restalrig came into being.

From the records of the Land holdings and medieval Charters of  Restalrig that we can find not only the names of the farmers who farmed around the area but we can also reconstruct in our minds eye what  Rstalrig would have looked like several hundred years ago.

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John Arthur writes "Past Times

Roman Leith

I recently got a phone call from my good friend George Scammel who has made many of the ship models which are now in the Ocean Terminal and was interested in Roman Leith as he was interested in building a model of a Roman Galley for the Ocean Terminal and required some information. As I didn't have the information to hand I had to do some research on this.

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Anonymous writes "Like any town Leith has changed and evolved through time. The Leith of today and tomorrow is not the Leith of fifty years ago or a hundred years ago. The simple fact is that people live and die, houses and warehouse are built and demolished, ideas and employment's which were applicable in past centuries are no longer viable today or in the future. "