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INDUSTRIAL HALL (11)

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The final round  

We now enter the last days of the Industrial Hall, Edinburghs first purpose-built exhibition space on Annandale Street.  

No amount of roller-skating stunts, Christmas carnivals, circus troupes, galloping Cossacks and smoke-shrouded boxing collisions could disguise the fact that Scotlands economy in the postwar Depression of the early and mid 1920s could not sustain a commercial venture of this kind.

INDUSTRIAL HALL (10)

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The end is nigh 

As 1925 drew to a close, rumours about the future of the Annandale Street Industrial Hall, Edinburgh's first purpose-built exhibition space were confirmed when the

FALCO PEREGRINUS

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Feasting on a doo near you.

Just look at these!

Two images caught last month by reader Jamie McCowan on St Vincent Place.

As reported in Issue 343, a family of the birds was seen nesting on the high red chimney of McDonald Rd in August but has since dispersed.

This one, judging by its buff colour, is the juvenile.