History of Leith, Edinburgh

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Leith Fort. Barracks
Name: Watt, Henry
Description: 1 manuscript map ; 477 x 593 mm., on sheet, 504 x 624 mm.
Original Survey: [pre-1804]
Date on Map: [pre-1804]

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A number of years ago I came across a book which told a little known story about Leith. The story went like this, that when the last Balfour of Pilrig House was dieing in 1941.She added a codicil to her will instructing that Pilrig House was to be left to the then Edinburgh Corporation and for them to use it for a Leith Museum. Of course the subsequent history of Pilrig house is well known and what is equally well known is that “City of Edinburgh Council” never used the property for which it was meant to be used and in my opinion they never intended it to be used as a Museum for Leith in first place. It is now flats.
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