History of Leith, Edinburgh

Town Plan of Portobello Surveyed: 1893-4

The Fishwives Causeway,Portobello c1922 and today

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Princes Street Gardens,Edinburgh
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The Royal Scots Greys was a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1678 until 1971, when they amalgamated with the 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards) to form The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys). for more click here

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source-The Petworth Map

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Wood, John, ca. 1780-1847
Title: Plan of the Town of Portobello from actual survey.
Imprint: Edinburgh : [T. Brown], 1828.
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These houses in Duddingston village, Edinburgh were originally weavers cottages in the 18th century.
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St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (c. 634–20 March 687) was an Anglo-Saxon monk and bishop in the Kingdom of Northumbria which at that time included, in modern terms, north east England and south east Scotland as far as the Firth of Forth. Afterwards he became one of the most important medieval saints of England, with widespread recognition in the places he had been in Scotland.
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Thomas de Quincey (15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) was an English author and intellectual, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. for more click here

John Napier of Merchistoun (1550 – 4 April 1617) – also signed as Neper, Nepair – named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish mathematician, physicist, astronomer/astrologer and 8th Laird of Merchistoun, son of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston. He is most remembered as the inventor of logarithms and Napier’s bones, and for popularizing the use of the decimal point. Napier’s birth place, Merchiston Tower, Edinburgh, Scotland, is now part of Napier University. After dying of gout, Napier was buried in St Cuthbert’s Church, Edinburgh. for more click here