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An archive of the Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history threads of @cocteautriplets. Expect the unexpected: maps, transport, industries and obscurities. threadinburgh.scot Leith, Edinburgh and Scotland Joined August 2022-
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The thread about T. & H. Smith; Coffee, Cannabis and Chloroform in Canonmills threadinburgh.scot/2024/11/04/the…
The thread about Lufra; or how one street in Edinburgh got its unusual name threadinburgh.scot/2024/08/02/the…
The thread about the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the unlikely home of the King of France threadinburgh.scot/2024/05/26/the…
The thread about Craigroyston, a wandering placename on the map of north Edinburgh threadinburgh.scot/2024/05/25/the…
The thread about the 1926 St. Margaret's railway crash; inevitable fatalities during the confusion of the General Strike threadinburgh.scot/2024/05/14/the…
The thread about Ramage & Ferguson, the Leith shipyard that built luxury steam yachts for the rich and famous threadinburgh.scot/2024/05/02/the…
The thread about the history of Leith's parliamentary representation and why it resulted in a "Dirty Trick" threadinburgh.scot/2024/04/21/the…
The thread about the Causewayside Lads Institute and the wandering life of Victor de Spiganovicz, self-described "Mystery Man" threadinburgh.scot/2024/04/13/the…
The thread about the Rule of the Strap; the origins and demise of the peculiar corporal punishment in Scottish education threadinburgh.scot/2024/04/09/the…
@Samuel_Lloyds @SRDorman Ours is 1897 and it was built into the flats and stair. Gas arrived in the city, commercially, as early as 1818. The gas supply wasn't municipal until late 1890s and stair lighting was therefore only something provided by proprietors themselves before then.
The thread about everything you never needed to know about the coming of electricity to Edinburgh; why the city had to use sewage to cool its main power station; and how it was the first part of the National Grid threadinburgh.scot/2022/10/28/the…
The thread about 122 years of local political change in Edinburgh; from Moderates and Progressives to Communists and Protestants threadinburgh.scot/2024/03/07/the…
The thread about the Jawbone Arch; 127 years on the Meadows but missing over a decade threadinburgh.scot/2024/03/01/the…
The thread about the real story of the Penny Tenement; slums and landlordism in 1950s Edinburgh threadinburgh.scot/2024/02/22/the…
The thread about the travails of Edinburgh's first Zoo and an Elephant called Murdoch that called the city home threadinburgh.scot/2024/02/16/the…
@Edinburgh_Walks And this, by James Scott Marshall, confirms.
@Edinburgh_Walks A newspaper describes it at "the foot of Tolbooth Wynd". Funny it's not a name I had heard but when you look for it, it comes up frequently as a name for the bridge.
The thread about how Leith opened itself up by bridging its river and why that changed forever in 1955 threadinburgh.scot/2024/02/14/the…
The thread about Thomas Chalmers and the West Port Territorial Free Church; an experiment in local self-improvement threadinburgh.scot/2024/02/13/the…
This is an old thread, but one of my favourite, and seeing as I have just been updating and amending it I wanted to take the opportunity to share it again. threadinburgh.scot/2024/02/06/the…
The thread about The Palace at the Foot of the Walk; the many lives of an early cinema threadinburgh.scot/2024/01/30/the…
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