Edinburgh Walks

Private guided walks in Edinburgh & Leith

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Water of Leith today. The Grey Wagtail seemed interested in the otters’ actions. @WOLCT @gowildedinburgh @WildPhotoScot @CheepBirds #otter #greywagtail

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@gowildedinburgh @WOLCT Great film, Tom.
My favourite bird on the Water of Leith.
And I like how the fledgling already has ‘the dip’……

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Water of Leith today @WOLCT #otter

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@AlanWilson_SP This what I saw on 29th October. Got to hope they were careful with what they removed. I’m sure they were.

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Mr Purves is being cleared. #endofanera #Stockbridge #Edinburgh #oneofakind

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@martinaburke @WOLCT Thanks for this. I enjoyed all of them.

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@Threadinburger Informative and enjoyable read, thanks. Regarding Sandport Street Bridge I’d always known this as Fishquay Bridge between Coalhill and Bridge Street. Do you know where the fish quay was? By St. Ninian’s Church? I think Wine Quay was on the Shore side near the foot of Shore Place.

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@cocteautriplets There was ‘The Laurie’ (Laurie Street Picture House) somewhere around where Kirkgate House now sits. My grandfather-in-law talked about it being a flea pit that had no toilets that he visited on Saturday morning to watch cowboy films in the 1920’s

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@Calum_M_Ross @ThelmaScotland @thecockburn I think Calum may be right. The alternative would be the roof of the building that stood in the grounds of the now Radisson Blu/Scandic Crown hotel if it was tall enough?

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There are coal chute covers along the north side of Charlotte Square (Bute House etc). These are square as opposed to round.

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Are there any coal holes in pavements in #Edinburgh ?

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@cocteautriplets Saw this very happy house in Greece this year.

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@MostlyGhostly_ If I may…..

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@ConStreet6 Is that in Bernard Street?

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@cocteautriplets @theSpurtle @AlanWilson_SP Nuisance was regularly used as a euphemism for public urination….

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@cocteautriplets Just over-by on the ground of the old Shrubhill bus depot was Gallowlea, a sandy knoll where poor souls were executed and their remains left to rot or burnt. A warning for those travelling north into Edinburgh from Leith. The sand reputed to be used in the mortar or the New Town.

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I always thought the Dean Village ( or controversially should it be Dene Village/Village of Dene ) was on the land now taken up by the Dean Cemetery. and that the old village by the water was the Water of Leith Village.

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@thecockburn @NTBCC @theAHSS Maybe the developers could recognise that 106 Princes Street was the birthplace of Lieut. John Irving RN of HMS Terror. He perished on the 19C Franklin expedition to find the North West Passage and is buried in the Dean Cemetery. #Franklin #HMSTerror @fingerpostblog

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@bfford @ThelmaScotland That was my thought too. The dairy in Duke Place. It was the windows that I thought - from memory - were very similar.