GREEN STREET
Le Rouge et le Noir.
No. 11 in an occasional photo series celebrating the street-name signs of Spurtleshire.
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ISSUE 328 – OUT SOON!
As you read this, surprise copies of the May Spurtle are already popping up across the barony like campervans on the forecourts of Fife.
Issue 328 begins with locals pleading for a good night’s sleep, a sad reflection, a grand span, disputed sunshine and some signs of the times.
Page 2 continues with yet another sign, this time the shrimp-gargling and nipple-tassel kind, followed by moves to ensure local voices are heard. Then we cover potential noise, bad drivers getting away with it, mounting costs and Fantasy Island fog.
TESCO, BROUGHTON ROAD
Can't understand it.
Fruit and veg supplies are rarely reliable, but other departments never seem to be out of stock.
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AWAY FOR THE MESSAGES
The Living Memory Association, based at Ocean Terminal, has recently been given a Heritage Fund award, writes project worker Russell Clegg. We’re using it to start a new reminiscence project – ‘Away for the Messages’ – on shops and retail history in and around Edinburgh.
We are looking for folk to contribute their stories, lived experiences and indeed photos and shop-based ephemera to the project (we can scan these and include in our current exhibition).
EAST SCOTLAND STREET LANE
Fly-post-free zone. No. 10 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire's street-name signs.
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PAPERMILL WYND
Lovely weather for a walk.
No. 9 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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OLD STORY OF ‘NEW’ BASEMENT GHOST SIGN
Recent work to restore the exterior basement stonework of 19 Hart Street has revealed traces of an old shop frontage.
On the Broughton Place elevation it reads, ‘CONFECTIONS—M.T. SCOTT—CIGARETTES’. Round the corner on Hart Street, we think we can decipher a palimpsest of ‘GROCERIES’ and ‘CONFECTIONER’.
To discover more about the place’s history, Spurtle embarked on a tumultuous rummage through censuses, statutory registers, valuation rolls, Post Office directories and local newspapers. Here’s what we found.
Upset
Dear Spurtle,
Very very upset at the closure of Narcissus. A great disaster personally as well as for the local (and greater) community. One of the retailers who brightened up Broughton St visually … plus added variety amongst the excess of food-related outlets.
Feel incredibly sad for the staff, particularly Dagmar who seems to have been there forever. I just hope the business can be rescued and re-incarnated. Narcissus was the best florist in Edinburgh, in my opinion.
I guess Spurtle will have to find a new accommodation address too … ?
Miss H.F. Goodson
Dear Miss Goodson,
We share your sense of loss. And, yes, we are arranging a new postal address on Broughton Street. Details in Issue 328 (May).
Editor
PILRIG GARDENS
April sunshine. Spring in the step.
No. 8 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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