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Topping & Company Booksellers seeks permission to convert the former Royal Bank of Scotland at 2–3A Bleinheim Place into a bookshop (Ref. 18/10412/LBC).
The proposal is for: retail space on the ground and first floors; storage and staff facilities in the basement; and installation of a new lift.
Hopes and concerns were expressed at last night’s New Town & Broughton Community Council about draft proposals for improving George Street and the First New Town (Issue 280).
Meet Laura Clifford and Ian Staples, the partners behind Curiouser & Curiouser at 93 Broughton Street.
The two began trading here in October 2010, with Laura curating the shop’s unique selection of books, cards, ‘quirky homeware’, artworks, frames, stationery, and other uncategorisable curiosities.
Pickles is an all-white neutered male with green eyes. He’s three-and-a-half years old.
He isn’t wearing a collar, but has been micro-chipped.
He ought to be at home in Bellevue Road, but isn’t. Instead, he’s been missing since 8 January.
Pickles is in a bit of a pickle.
Please keep an eye out for him, and check your sheds. If you’ve seen him recently or know where he is now, kindly call his humans on 07794 00305. Alternatively, call the Identibase helpline on 0370 2408245, quoting reference number 011D36.
Good news!
Readers will remember our report in late November about the 18.5m telecommunications mast newly installed on Broughton Road.
The siting had caused upset among many locals who felt its positioning next to the Gretna Rail Disaster memorial in Rosebank Cemetery was unsightly and disrespectful.
We were first alerted to the red-shoed crow by @markalexander_m on Twitter four days ago.
It appears along the cycle path between Tesco and St Mark’s Park, just after Warriston Junction, on the bridge over the southern approach to the cemetery.
By the time Spurtle passed this lunchtime, the bird had been joined by words.
Whether these are by the original Mystery Mosaicist or somebody else is unclear. But it’s an odd phenomenon we’d like to see more of in 2019.
The reality of this season of goodwill often fails to match the expectation, but here instead is a minor cause for festive optimism.
We first featured news of a bright new future for the police box on Broughton Road in December 2015.
Local resident Yosef Mazon was successfully seeking planning permission to convert the redundant structure into a takeaway coffee and food outlet.
Today is a milestone in Broughton’s recent cultural history.
When its doors close at 6pm this evening, it will be the end of Edinburgh Printmakers’ three decades at 23 Union Street.
Workshop, retail and gallery spaces will transfer to a new, bigger and better facility at Castle Mills in Fountainbridge. We wish all concerned an unstressful voyage and successful reberth in spring 2019.
Judging by the content of social media over recent weeks, we’re all going to hell in a handcart.
Edinburgh citizens are railing about the pros and cons of ever increasing tourism, the privatisation of public space, the ruin of residential amenity. It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, with everyone bickering with everyone else in confined spaces.
Many locals have a soft spot for Broughton Place.
There’s a satisfying confluence to it, an odd higgledy-piggledy, tumble-down descent leading to a pool of Georgian grandeur at the bottom.
Here, in Kirkwood’s 1819 Plan and Elevation, we see it in the years before completion, a rather charming guddle of homes, gardens, woodyards, and older structures gradually being subsumed under the New Town.