But unlike the tradition of having a midwinter feast, greetings cards are a relatively recent phenomenon in the history of Christmas. The multi-million pound industry would still be many years away.for more click here
But unlike the tradition of having a midwinter feast, greetings cards are a relatively recent phenomenon in the history of Christmas. The multi-million pound industry would still be many years away.for more click here
The Bernard Distillery doesn’t exist now being replaced by modern housing.
This minute from the “South Leith Record” shows that the erection of tombstones was not very common. To show respect like this was considered Roman Catholic and for this reason cherubs and other carved figures were often mutilated. However this attitude changed within a few years of the above minute.
The minute reads as follows-
“Christian Robertson widow of the deceased Alexander Guthrie petitioned the Session to have the favour as to let her errect set up a hewn stone in the Church yard at the head of her husbands corpse but the Session in no way would grant her petition unto her because everyone would strive to have like favour therfore it was not granted but absolutely refused to her and all others”.
The reason for Leith becoming the principal port for Scotland was the sacking and burning of Berwick in 1296 and the capture of Berwick in 1333 by Edward III who replaced the Scottish population by English shown above. From Froissart 14th century chronicles
Throughout the Middle Ages and into the Elizabethan period Leith and Inchcolm was sacked and looted by the English
A woodcut of a Mason and his tools
Leith was first to introduce the electric tramcar before Edinburgh
The uniforms of letter carriers, Mail guards and drivers employed by the Post Office in December 1860. The penny post had been introduced in 1849.