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Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets

Captain Darling's interrogation scene from Blackadder. Tied to a chair in his pyjamas with a chamberpot on his head while Nurse Fletcher Brown looks on
BBC News photo and headline. Andy Burnham dressed smart casual stands at the bar on his phone. A pint of Guiness sits ready for him. Some guy props up the bar and looks on in amusement or admiration, who knows. In the foreground are the blurry shapes of beer pumps. Headline "Burnham announces 20% cut in business rates for pubs, clubs and live music venues in England"
Edinburgh Live screengrab - "Gutted Edinburgh families told to leave forever homes after 'discovery beneath scheme'. Edinburgh families have been told they need to leave their properties just four months after moving into what they believed to be their forever homes - after it was discovered they were built on a mineshaft."
Screenshot. Google search "clothing recycling bins near me EH5" AI Overview results "For EH5 residents, the most accessible clothing recycling bins are located at the Tesco Supermarket on Newhaven Road (EH6 5QG) and the Morrisons on Granton Road (EH5 1QB), featuring Salvation Army and charity partner bins."
black and white street photo of Rose Street at corner of Kenilworth Bar, 1979. Shows a pedestrianised street with some modern planting and a large upright sign saying "Pedestrian Precinct" with the pictogram image of a man, woman and child, with distinctly 1970s clothing, shoes, haircuts and poses. Clipped from https://www.trove.scot/image/466052 Reference: SC 466052
Estate agents photo of a very sad but very expensive detached house that doesn't know if it's 5 bay or 6 bay, faced in mock stone with decorative quoin stones with a columned portico and a tiny 1992 date stone above added as an afterthought.
Eric, Ernie and Andrew Preview (Andre Previn), "I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order" sketch
photograph - Nuffield Transplantation Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh.
Gregor Fisher as Captain Para Handy from the Takes of Para Handy
Home made banner hanging on the Red Bridge at Drylaw. "Ya Cunt. Bonnie's 21"
Grainy calotype print of 3 mirthsome Victorian gentlemen enjoying some glasses of ale
A bike locked to a security fence, next to an unused crappy "toast rack" aka "wheelbender" bike rack that is barely fixed to the ground
Simpsons meme - "Mah children need wine!"
Man paddling a tiny dinghy down the Water of Leith on a sunny day
Tree tag, Amelanchier alnitolia (sic) var semlintegrifolia (sic)
Information board for Leith Links Arboretum
Opening advert for Debenhams Edinburgh store, The Scotsman - Friday 13 November 1981
Drawing from planning application of 109-112 Princes Street showing which parts are former Department Store and Conservative/Liberal Clubs
OS 1893 Town Plan of Edinburgh, Princes Street and corner of Castle Street, showing Palace Hotel, Scottish Conservative Club and Scottish Liberal Club in a row.
Newspaper advert for the Palace Hotel, Edinburgh Evening Courant - Thursday 02 February 1871
grainy black and white newsprint photo of a building with a corner spire on fire, a fireman on a turntable ladder hoses water down on it through the smoke. In the bottom can be read the letters "PALA" from the name "PALACE HOTEL". Edinburgh Evening News - Monday 10 June 1991
Two versions of the same black and white postcard image of Good's Corner in Nether Liberton, Edinburgh. A semi-rural scene on the city edge, looking over houses and some trams, with horse and card, towards hills and trees in the distance. The top one captioned "Original", the bottom one "Enhanced"
Nigel Farage speech, trimmed but unedited to where he says "I am a crook. I am dishonest. Just another reason to hate me"
Harry Enfield Meme, "I am considerably richer than you"
Father Ted Golden Cleric meme, "And now we move on to liars"
BBC graphic with a picture of Jude Bellingham and "HEY JUDE" in their weird 3rd Reich style World Cup typeface, above the headline "June Bellingham on what playing for England means to him".
Screenshot from Sainsbury's website for 4 cans of "strawberries and cream flavoured" Stella Artiis
Black and white photo, exterior of a sketchy-looking 1970s cinema called the "Classic". It is next to a fruit shop on one side and a vacant plot on the other. A woman walks past. Above the door in large letters its screenings are advertised: "Erotic Awakening" and "Nympho Superstars". March 1986.
Google search result for "when was the 14th of march a friday in the eighties". Below is an AI overview which begins "In the 1980s, March 14th fell on a Friday only in 1980"
Newsprint photo of a BP Self Serve petrol station with the price sign for 4 Star Petrol superimposed on it - 33.7p per lire or 153.2p per gallon. Below a subheading "Just how far does 13p go these days" and a rolled up top of a 13p Evening News newspaper. Edinburgh Evening News - Tuesday 09 February 1982
Urban street scene. A segregated cycle path is closed off by barriers and a sign in the foreground. Beyond a van is parked on the path and workmen are coring holes in the pavement. Newly cemented bollards are installed along the path in-between
Albert Steptoe enjoying a beer in his tin bath
Sim City 2000 screenshot
Black and white photo showing 2 cars on a street, driving past Alex. Ferguson's confectionery shop in Edinburgh
Headline "Edinburgh scientists try to make sausage rolls healthier without ruining flaky pastry" beneath a picture of 4 very flaccid sausage rolls on an oven tray
Grainy newsprint image showing a statue (Earl of Beaconsfield, Lime Street, Liverpool) with a parking cone on his head. Liverpool Daily Post - Saturday 25 March 1967
Meaningless corporate bullshit mission statement on Tesco at Great Junction Street. "Serving Leith's customers, communities and planet a little better every day"
Tennents Special Blues Brother advert. The Blues Brothers with 3 kegs of beer with a pipe band bearing down on them
Newspaper recruitment advert, Scotland on Sunday - Sunday 25 October 1992. "The Younger Universe Trust... The Younger Universe will be a major new visitor attraction in Edinburgh featuring an exhibition called the Dynamic Earth"
Scene from STINGRAY
Grainy black and white newsprint photo, a couple with their newborn baby. On the left of shot in a shirt is Ian Ferguson, Rangers footballer.
BBC World Cup typeface "Who Am I?"
AI summary says "56 storey block", original below says "5-6 storey block"
Edinburgh Evening News, 1st August 1988. Headline: "And still on homes... Anger over the empty houses".
A sleepy congregation. Kay, John, 1785, Etching. The clergyman is the celebrated Dr Webster, the precentor John Campbell, the place of worship the Tolbooth Church, being that in which Dr Webster was the stated clergyman.
A sleepy congregation. Kay, John, 1785, Etching. The clergyman is the celebrated Dr Webster, the precentor John Campbell, the place of worship the Tolbooth Church, being that in which Dr Webster was the stated clergyman.
A man looks towards the camera as he leans forward to crank start an old-fashioned car. The car is painted and the words 'Eastern Crafts' appear on the door panel. Another man leans on the car and a boy on a bike goes past on the pavement of the residential street. Credit, Edinburgh City Libraries.
A smiling man wearing a blazer with crest on the pocket, a woollen pullover, white shirt, shorts, black socks and leather shoes stands on a path by a road, a hedge on one side and a road behind trees on the other. He is holding a bicycle. On the handlebars is a neatly painted sign that reads "Indian Tourist". Photo credit Edinburgh City Libraries (https://www.capitalcollections.org.uk/view-item?i=21916)
A slightly battered, green Morris Minor car outside a slightly overgrown house in a state of mild disrepair