STOCKBRIDGE
Season of mists and mellow affluence.
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WHO SPILLED COCK ROBIN?
Look at the photo and what do you see?
Spurtle reader Tibor Farkas, who sent us this Bellevue Place detail, sees ‘a blood-soaked robin with an albino crayfish beside it’.
It is in fact a chance splash of paint next to some randomly tangled string and old Pot Noodles.
THE INDUSTRIAL HALL (7)
On the surface, all appeared to be well at the Industrial Hall, Edinburgh’s first purpose-built exhibition space, as a new year dawned.
On 6 January 1925, beneath a positive review for a similar show at the ailing Waverley Market venue, the Edinburgh Evening News sang the praises of the soon-to-conclude World’s Fair and Carnival:
DUNDAS STREET
Centrum House.
Ruddy squatters.
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YORK LANE
The slippery slope to autumn.
No. 38 in an occasional photo-series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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MAJOR RETHINK FOR NEW TOWN QUARTER
Developers announce partial flip to purpose-built student accommodation
Work on the 5.9-acre site of the former Royal Bank of Scotland HQ between Dundas St and King George V Park, due to start in July, has been delayed again. Major changes to the plans originally consented in Sept 2021 (20/03034/FUL) are on the way (see Masterplan image below).
THE INDUSTRIAL HALL (6)
Cowboys, fists and a monster smoking concert
We saw last week how, in the continued absence of large-scale commercial exhibitions, Edinburgh's first purpose-built exhibition hall on Annandale Street was struggling to justify its existence.
Sporting fixtures, dances and pageants on roller skates were all very well. ‘Sacred concerts’ and charity benefits created good publicity and raised the tone. But where was the money to come from?