Francis Muir was the first minister of the Relief Church of Junction Road.He was born at Strathhaven on the 13th August 1797 and ordained at Leith 11th June 1823. He was Moderstor of the Relief Synod in 1841 and was for forty-eight years minister of Junction Road. He died at his house in north Fort Street on the 13th September 1871.
Francis Muir
Some adverts from 1911 and 1913 which appeared in the Life and Work magazine for St Thomas Church Leith. (more…)
Do you recognise anyone in the the Photographs? The first one is of the 17th Leith Company of the Boy’s Brigade taken during the session of 1926-27 from Junction Road Church. What are their stories? What happened to them? and below are members of the Kirk Session either of St Thomas’s or Junction Road taken around c1920. Who are they does anyone recognise them now? (more…)
I was looking at old photographs recently at St Thomas-Junction Road Church and came across a collection of Photographs entitled “St Thomas’s Parish Church Leith, Rev J.A. Fleming minister and Session 1908” mounted on a brown board and presumably had been framed at one time. (more…)
High up on the north side of the tower of South Leith Parish Church can be seen the Coat of Arms of King James VI of Scotland and first of England not only this but on the west side can be seen the Coat of Arms of Charles I his son and successor who was executed in 1649. Within the Tower can be seen the Coats of Arms of his grandmother Maria de Loraine wife of James V better known as Maria de Guise and his mother Mary, Queen of Scots. (more…)
This is the last known picture of the congregation of the Harper Memorial Church Coburg Street leaving Church after a Communion Service cira 1962 (more…)
“Headland Archaeology are currently excavating a site for Barratt Homes on Giles Street. All evidence so far relates to post-medieval buildings on the (former) St Andrews Street and Giles Street frontage, including some interesting early cellars.
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In Addition to their ordinary revenue from lands, rents and gifts, the Preceptory of St Anthony were entitled to a Scots Quart of Wine out of every tun or cask imported into Leith. (more…)
This has been included because of the many Leith and Edinburgh places mentioned in the genealogy. The genealogy below is taken from “Bermudian Genealogy” with permission and shows in detail how a family can move from one part of the world to the other. It is a very fine piece of genealogical research and well worth reading. (more…)
John Martine in 1888 who also wrote “Reminiscences of the Royal Burgh of Haddington” wrote the “Reminiscences of the Port and Town of Leith”. In the introduction he writes.
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