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Do you remember this footpath in about the year 2000?
It used to be known as 'Dog-Poo Lane' and was the cause of frequent frustration and disgust for pedestrians trying to get between the Rumbling Bridge and Broughton Road.
In 2015, however, a combination of Environmental Wardens, spot fines and changed dog-owner behaviour has largely eradicated the underfoot nuisance.
Nowadays it’s much worse.
Take another look at the photo top-right. Notice anything amiss?
Friends of Montgomery Street Park have won major funding to revamp facilities for local people.
The £40,000 Biffa Award will be be spent on refurbishing the hard-surface sports area. The cracked and uneven surface will be levelled and relaid with rubber this month, and marked with lines for football and basketball.
New seating, goal posts and hoops are also on the way.
The project should be finished by the start of May.
Walking along McDonald Road the other day, I was passed by two sightseeing buses. I thought this was odd; we were a long way from any meaningful tourist sights and – no offence to the good people of McDonald Road – what was there to see here?
I decided to investigate.
I went along to the Edinburgh Bus Tours headquarters, basically that bus lane opposite Princes Mall. I asked around but no one could tell me why McDonald Road was a top tourist destination. I was told I could find out more on the Majestic Tour for the handsome price of £14.
Local resident John Edward contacted the Spurtle this morning with news of commemorative events surrounding the centenary of the Quintinshill Rail Disaster.
The great-grandson of Private James McSherry (7th Batallion Royal Scots, Territorials) who died in the tragedy, Edward is asking for other descendants and relations of victims to get in touch in advance of ceremonies from 21–23 May.
RHYTHMS
Reviewed by Rhys Fullerton
This joint exhibition at Patriothall Gallery features paintings and prints by Soosan Danesh, Tracy White and Mary Walters: three recent graduates from the part-time degree in Combined Studies at Edinburgh College of Art.
St MARY'S METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL 1814–2014: MOST BELOVED GATE OF HEAVEN by Darren Tierney
Reviewed by David Hill
I have something to confess. Some of my best friends are churches, Catholic ones.
While I tend to hanker after the Sicilian Baroque or Lombard Gothic, the uplifting qualities of a more local manifestation of divine benevolence, one lurking just west of Picardy Place roundabout, should not be underestimated.
But I didn’t come here to talk about John Lewis.
So when she asserts that it 'is not the case' that recycling in the new bins is contaminated (B
The influential filmmaker, writer and exhibition curator Murray Grigor has criticised proposals for the former Royal High School.
In a short film by Richard Nicholls released this morning, Grigor criticises City of Edinburgh Council for allowing this 'sublime building' to decline. It is, he says, 'absolutely vital' and 'as important to the 18th and 19th centuries as Stirling Castle was to the 15th and 16th'.
Jackie Gardiner is an Arbroath-based painter of mostly Scottish seascapes and landscapes in a semi-abstract style. Her first solo show in Edinburgh – A Coastal Tale – has just begun at the Union Gallery.
Some of Gardiner's works are clearly recognisable evocations of boats and bays and foregrounded flowers set against the sea.
Others – like 'The Boathouse' (right) – take a little careful looking at before their literal subjects emerge from the play of painted colour and texture.
Those picking up from last week’s cliffhanger may be in for a disappointment.
You left me standing in no man’s land at the crossing on Mansfield Place. It was a regular Mexican standoff, briefly, but it didn’t take long for another pedestrian to appear, and the next green man soon put us both out of our misery. The stubborn stalemate was over and we went our separate ways.