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Shrubhill House on Leith Walk will be demolished over a period of around eight weeks, announced STV yesterday.
It is to be replaced by September next year with five commercial units and accommodation for 260 students.
Spurtle decided to have a last look at the building before bits of it begin to disappear.
Here are some more of the wonderful works currently on show in Northumberland Street’s Gallery on the Corner.
Pictured right is the first in Yun Chu, Kuo’s three-part ‘Watering’.
I find these calm evocations of leaves, eddies and reflections – produced on rice paper with Chinese painting pigment – simply charming.
There is some really excellent work on display at the Gallery on the Corner just now.
During the Spurtle paper-round on Monday, this foot-slogger was bowled over first by Jean Gillespie’s ‘Morning Glow (Cuba)’, pictured right.
Gillespie is Edinburgh-based (with a studio in Dalry). Her work at present ‘is based on themes derived from the figure or landscape,’ she says.
‘I am trying to create a reality in my work through which another separate world can be glimpsed.’
Local residents have alerted the Council to what they claim is unauthorised work using a JCB on land adjacent to 62 Broughton Road (the area known locally as 'Sandy Hill'). Officials investigated the situation this morning.
What do you buy the politically engaged diner in your life who has everything?
The answer is now obvious: a £600 set of six dinner plates featuring key players in Scotland’s Independence Referendum debate.
The pieces are the handiwork of Edinburgh artist Leigh Chorlton, who has been displaying them in an exhibition entitled Pollster in White Space’s gallery on Howe Street.
There was a mixture of laughter, passion, precise debating and occasionally a small measure of something like sorrow or wistfulness in Monday's Independence Referendum debate at the Calton Centre on Montgomery Street. Around 140 members of the public attended.
For the July issue of the Spurtle, we had hoped to have lots of exciting photographs and information about Drummond CHS’s visit to their partner schools Muthambi Boys and Girls in Kenya, writes Annie Scanlon (Librarian/ Co-ordinator Drummond Muthambi Educational Partnership).
Unfortunately, two weeks before departure, permission to travel was withdrawn.
Drummond – along with Currie and Portobello High Schools – had been planning to make visits in June.
Following disappointment at just missing out on the Commonwealth Games, local hammer thrower Kimberley Reed has bounced back with selection for the World Junior Championships.
We were at the England Athletics Under-20 Championships on 14 June, writes Kimberley’s father Scott Reed. That’s the qualifying event for the World Junior Championships in Oregon later this summer.
Sustainable transport charity Sustrans has produced an ideas document containing radical proposals for Picardy Place, York Place and Leith Street. You can view them here.
An archaeological dig on the site of the former Botanic Garden and Cottage on Haddington Place (1763–1821) will take place next month, and members of the public are invited to participate.