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Calling all business owners on Broughton Street!
A helpful coordinator is required by the Broughton Street Traders’ Association to help Lucy Tanat-Jones with organisation structure and the launch of a new website.
This isn’t a huge task, she assures Spurtle, requiring just a few bits of emailing per month within the association requirements.
To volunteer or find out more, email Lucy at lulu@organicpleasures.co.uk.
No. 12: Claremont House, Esher, Surrey, England
51º 21’ N, 22’ W
Claremont Crescent appears in an 1821 map of Edinburgh by Knox, two years before building work began. It was the first part of Broughton to be so called, and the latest example in a time-honoured, New Town tradition of brown-nosing the Royal Family. Royal forenames, titles, origins and in this case property were all plundered in search of suitably up-market, politically correct designations for smart developments.
In Issue 187 we wrote about an intriguing stencilled pavement slab on the North Bridge.
Here is a photo of one of the Broughton Street stencilled dogs we mentioned but did not have room to publish.
Over two years ago in Issue 159, AM argued for more, better-quality graffiti rather than the (in any case impossible) aspiration to have none at all. This artist's work fits the bill.
Does any reader know where other examples of his/her work may be? Can any reader put us in touch?
It has been bleetering on the barony all day – a sure sign that the Spurtle is about to be distributed to pubs, clubs, shops, odd nooks, strange corners and all points in-between around Broughton. We hit the streets squelching on Friday 1 October.
The latest issue is the usual tartan purry of news, gossip, history, dates for your diary, arts, crafts, strong opinions and world events with a Broughton bent ... all squeezed into 4 pages of inventive typographical wholesomeness.
Schools across North Edinburgh and Leith are being urged by Mark Lazarowicz, MP to try and win solar panels in a competition run by British Gas.
There will be 750 winners across Britain, which – in addition to the panels (worth £20K–£40K each) – will receive smart meters to monitor their energy use. It's estimated that the prizes could save schools as much as 20 per cent on their annual fuel bills.
Not a lot of planning news to report this week in Broughton, although one application did catch the eye.
Permission is sought to replace 64 windows at 16 Abercromby Place (Ref. 10/02658/FUL). We realise some New Town residences are generously proportioned, but 64 windows! How much daylight do these people need?
As reported in Breaking news earlier this month (6.9.10), Drummond Community High School are busily raising the £15,000 required for students and staff at their Kenyan partnership schools to come and visit. They have only until June 2011, so the clock is definitely ticking.
Yet another Leith Walk sign has been erected affirming yet again the respect and affection in which Edinburgh-super-mare is held by its citizens.
Lord Provost George Grubb unveiled it at the corner of Pilrig Street on 13 September.
This latest addition is comparatively calm and appealing. Designer Noel Spence says the flags at the bottom spell out (to no-one's great surprise) I LOVE LEITH.
An advertisement in the Scotsman for Union Gallery's McGuire exhibition earlier this month (Breaking news 1.9.10) reduced hardened staff at the national newspaper to girlish blushes and the interpolation of asterisks.
They toned down the name of one work to: 'The Relaxing Pleasure of Sh***ing in the Woods'.
Broad-minded Broughtonians are nowhere near so easily shocked. The first painting to sell at the exhibition was one charmingly entitled Acrobatic Pissing Dog in the Spotlight.
The Council's flawed consultation on budget priorities is currently unravelling across the city to widespread dissatisfaction and embarrassment.
We will discuss the problem in Issue 187 (1 October), but for now enthusiastically endorse campaign organisation Greener Leith's coverage at www.greenerleith.org.