WANTED, girl to wash bottles, and also one to label.—James Robertson & Co., York Lane.[1]
Edinburgh Evening News, 4 January 1902
[1] The company was a manufacturer of aerated water. It did not normally label girls.
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Another of Warriston Cemetery’s gentle giants has fallen.
The latest example, when seen from Warriston Road, appears to have been rooted in the bank by the Water of Leith.
Closer inspection, though, shows that it’s the one next to the informal entry into the cemetery from the cyclepath at Warriston Junction.
Some 30 local residents are circulating objections to planning proposals for two properties at 108/14 and 116 Dundas Street (20/05645/FUL; 20/05646/CON).
A fire broke out in a joiner’s workshop situated in Swinton Row, Broughton Street, Edinburgh, yesterday afternoon.[1]
The workshop, which occupies a two-storeyed brick building, is in close proximity to Messrs Moir & Co.’s large funeral undertaking establishment, where, in the stables and yard, there were a large number of horses, hearses, cabs, and other vehicles.
A day of greys.
The photograph shown here of a ‘winter angel’, posted on Twitter at the weekend, prompted some interest among readers.
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.
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.
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.