A day of greys.

A day of greys and drizzle on the brink of sleet.

A day of grey birds skating on thin ice.

A day of honey-coloured homes becoming headstones …

And then this: Bellevue surprises.

The photograph shown here of a ‘winter angel’, posted on Twitter at the weekend, prompted some interest among readers.

Several got in touch to ask what high-profile personage had been commemorated by such a substantial, beautiful, and expensive piece of sculpture.

The answers are surprising, for, despite occupying one of the most prestigious plots in Rosebank Cemetery, those remembered here came from comparatively humble origins.

The angel stands scattering flowers over the grave of David Bremner and Elizabeth Henderson.

LEITH POLICE COURT.

(BAILIE M’KELVIE ON THE BENCH.)

THURSDAY

Robert Mearns, labourer, Greenside Row, Edinburgh, was not working about the beginning of the present month, but he devised other and easier means to become the proud possessor of two quart bottles of whisky.

Planning permission is sought to convert two Category A-listed properties on London Street into short-term holiday-let accommodation.

Both properties are at No. 39, and both have fallen into disrepair after being unoccupied for between 10 and 30 years. Both properties have their own front doors.

On the level

You may be experiencing a chronological meltdown.

Your dreary minutes may seem to last for hours. Dull hours for days. Each week may be indistinguishable from any other, each in its own repeat eternity.

How shall we navigate such fog? No normal chronometer will serve, not one designed to measure intervals between events. We need something new, an anti-clock, something particularly fit for nothingness and accurate to within a fraction of an absence.

Cometh the hour, cometh the shop.

TO-DAY’S POLICE NEWS.

EDINBURGH CITY—Before BAILIE GIBSON.

FORTY-EIGHT HOURS’ CRIME.

There were 74 new prisoners brought to the bar. The charges were: Disorderly, 30; incapable, 22; assault, 7; nuisance, 5; theft, 3; begging and housebreaking, 2 each; and drunk in charge of a child, drunk in charge of a horse, and cruelty to children, 1 each.

FRIENDS FALL OUT.

A Compendium

of

New Town

Noir.

*****

Viz.

North Edinburgh’s

Back-Streets & Dark Corners

as Reported in

Scottish Broadsheets

during His Late Majesty’s Reign

from 20 January 1901 to 6 May 1910.

*****

Compiled from Original Sources

& Most Attentively Annotated

for the Convenience, Elucidation & Entertainment

of Generous Subscribers

by

A. J.

Has much pleasure submitting the following List of

SPECIALITIES AND NOVELTIES

for his

TWENTY-SECOND CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR

COMMENCING ON

MONDAY, DECEMBER 24th, 1906.

DOORS OPEN at 11 a.m.

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THE MARKET WILL BE BRILLIANTLY

Following 5 previous consultation rounds, and before submitting a full planning application for the Powderhall Bowling Greens site later this month, those behind the proposals this morning presented final plans to the public and answered questions.

Representatives of Collective Architecture, City of Edinburgh Council, and Urban Pioneers (landscape architects) discussed proposals on Zoom with around 16 interested parties, most of whom live or work locally.

No great surprises

ROUND 1

1.   Antigua

2.   Uncle Albert

3.   Broughton

4    St Mark's Square

5.   Airlie

ROUND 2

6.   St Vincent

7.   Eildon Hill(s)

8.   Stanley Baxter

9.   Prue Leith

10. Chris Bonnington

ROUND 3