History / Local business

CORSON'S NO MORE

Submitted by Editor on Wed, 03/12/2025 - 00:00

Charlie Ellis looks at 62 Raeburn Place, an address which tells us much about the changing character of Stockbridge.

The transition from Corson Hardware to Mootz General Store perfectly encapsulates Stockbridge’s continuing evolution. Mootz has emerged as one of Edinburgh’s ‘hottest food spots’, known for serving up Italian deli sandwiches of dramatic scale, frequently dubbed ‘iPad-sized slabs’ and ‘absolute units’.

NEW BAR, NO BULL

Submitted by Editor on Fri, 13/12/2024 - 14:29

We're delighted to see the premises at 43 Leith Street back in active use. We covered their lease by Edinburgh Council to The Mother Black Cat Ltd back in June (Issue 340)

LOCAL HOTEL COULD SOON BE FLATS

Submitted by Editor on Thu, 21/12/2023 - 00:00

Bitter-sweet farewell

S1 Developments Ltd wants to change the use of the hotel at 14–15 Claremont Crescent and reconfigure it as seven 2-bdrm flats with two separate 3-bdrm mews dwellings and limited on-site parking for cars and bikes behind (23//070507/LBC and 23/07058/FUL).

ROMANCE, PROGRESS, AND ROSE-TINTED SPECTACLES

Submitted by Editor on Thu, 24/09/2020 - 06:50

This work by Archibald Williams (1871–1934), currently displayed in the window of bookbinders and sellers The Gently Mad on Inverleith Row, optimistically anticipates numerous life-improving innovations from the distant perspective of 1902.

They include:

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