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Hello Spurtle Readers,
We are a group of university students pursuing an MSc in Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh.
Since last semester we have been taking a course on Urban Conservation, and as a part of our Urban Conservation coursework we are analysing the area of Bellevue Crescent, for which we require your help.
Lord Pearson heard evidence to-day in an action of divorce by Robert Ewing, labourer, 10 Rossie Place, Edinburgh, against his wife, Elizabeth Culbard or Ewing, 32 Greenside Row, Edinburgh. The pursuer (34), stated that the defender’s father was his cousin, and he was married on 2d May 1900 by declaration.
City of Edinburgh Council has now submitted more detailed plans for the former Powderhall bowling greens on Broughton Road (21/00381/FUL).
As you read this, advance copies of the February Spurtle have already begun snowdropping across the barony.
Meuse Lane (on St David Street.)
Luncheons, Dinners, and Suppers at Popular Prices.
Good-Sized Rooms for Meetings for Business Men.
Hotel Tariff Moderate.
G. RIETZ, Proprietor and Manager.[1]
WANTED, girl to wash bottles, and also one to label.—James Robertson & Co., York Lane.[1]
Edinburgh Evening News, 4 January 1902
[1] The company was a manufacturer of aerated water. It did not normally label girls.
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Another of Warriston Cemetery’s gentle giants has fallen.
The latest example, when seen from Warriston Road, appears to have been rooted in the bank by the Water of Leith.
Closer inspection, though, shows that it’s the one next to the informal entry into the cemetery from the cyclepath at Warriston Junction.
Some 30 local residents are circulating objections to planning proposals for two properties at 108/14 and 116 Dundas Street (20/05645/FUL; 20/05646/CON).
A fire broke out in a joiner’s workshop situated in Swinton Row, Broughton Street, Edinburgh, yesterday afternoon.[1]
The workshop, which occupies a two-storeyed brick building, is in close proximity to Messrs Moir & Co.’s large funeral undertaking establishment, where, in the stables and yard, there were a large number of horses, hearses, cabs, and other vehicles.
A day of greys.