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Statues on the former Linen Bank, St. Andrew Square Edinburgh.The building itself was designed by Statues on the former Linen Bank, St. Andrew Square Edinburgh.The building itself was designed by Statues on the former Linen Bank, St. Andrew Square Edinburgh.The building itself was designed by Statues on the former Linen Bank, St. Andrew Square Edinburgh.The building itself was designed by Statues on the former Linen Bank, St. Andrew Square Edinburgh.The building itself was designed by

Statues on the former Linen Bank, St. Andrew Square Edinburgh.


The building itself was designed by the eminent Scottish architect  David Bryce and built between 1846-51. The statues are the work of  Alexander Handyside Ritchie, a Musselburgh sculptor who had a studio at  Mound Place and lived on Princes Street.

Canmore the online catalogue to Scotland’s archaeology, buildings, and industrial and maritime heritage, and part of Historic Environment Scotland/Historic Scotland describe the statues as such;


The bottom of the building is clad in ugly scaffolding just now, hence only the top half captured, 

Navigation: female figure with an anchor by her left side and a stick(?) in her right hand.

Commerce: male figure with book in left hand and a large parcel tied with rope by his left foot.

Manufacture: a female figure with spindle(?) in left hand and a distaff in right hand.

Architecture: a female figure with a tablet of stone in her left hand.

Science: bearded male figure with a kind of bolt(?) in his right hand, his left hand holding a parchment on his left hip. At his right foot is an anvil and a hammer.

Agriculture: Female figure with wheat sheaf in right hand and a circle of wheat stalks in her left hand. Around her head are ears of whea0t.

They represent Navigation, Commerce, Manufacture, Science, Art and Agriculture.

And below the statues as;

On a frieze running below the figures are 6 putti. Each putto is directly below each figure and has further attributes:-

Navigation: putto with trident and sea creature.

Commerce: putto with globe and map.

The building housed The Bank of Scotland for some years and is now owned by  Gleneagles Hotels and is being converted into a  33-room boutique hotel, called “Gleneagles Townhouse”  There will also be a restaurant and bar in the hotel, and a rooftop terrace with views over the square.

https://gleneagles.com/townhouse/


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 St. Andrew’s and St. George’s West Church.Built to an unusual oval design by Major Andr St. Andrew’s and St. George’s West Church.Built to an unusual oval design by Major Andr St. Andrew’s and St. George’s West Church.Built to an unusual oval design by Major Andr St. Andrew’s and St. George’s West Church.Built to an unusual oval design by Major Andr

St. Andrew’s and St. George’s West Church.

Built to an unusual oval design by Major Andrew Fraser of the Royal Engineers, opened in 1784 as St. Andrew’s Church, this was the first church in Edinburgh’s New Town.

Two churches, one St Andrew’s (for Scotland) and the other St George’s (for England), were planned as principal elements in the New Town and originally intended to face each other down the length of George Street, but Laurence Dundas acquired the intended plot in St Andrew’s Square first and built his town house, relegating the church to its present position.  St Georges is now West Register House, with it’s fine green dome, which I used hide away in when I worked there in the late 80′s. 

I’ve been inside this church a few times, it has a fine corniced ceiling and a mezzanine type gallery for parishioners to sit. I used to pop in when they had one of their regular book sale days, all the proceeds of the sales o to Christian Aid. They also have a community café downstairs in the Undercroft. 

If you’re in Edinburgh during May it really is worth a wee look in, even if it’s just to have a nose about the place. 

The house Dundas had built is at 36 St Andrew Square and has been the Head Office of RBS since 1825.

Check out the church website below.

https://www.stagw.org.uk/


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Street Art by Shona Hardie in Leith,. The common nightingale is the Ukraine’s national animal. Accor

Street Art by Shona Hardie in Leith,.

The common nightingale is the Ukraine’s national animal. According to legend it once came to the country from India to cheer the people up with its singing. This one is holding a peace flag in its beak – as a sign of hope for the end of the war.


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The Scottish Suffragette  Agnes Henderson Brown was born on April 12th 1866 in Edinburgh. The term ‘The Scottish Suffragette  Agnes Henderson Brown was born on April 12th 1866 in Edinburgh. The term ‘The Scottish Suffragette  Agnes Henderson Brown was born on April 12th 1866 in Edinburgh. The term ‘

The Scottish Suffragette  Agnes Henderson Brown was born on April 12th 1866 in Edinburgh.

The term ‘suffragette’ was invented in 1906 by that bastion of everything bad,  the Daily Mail, as meant to be a belittling epithet, but the women turned it around and adopted it as a badge of honour.

Nannie Brown, as she later became known as was born at 125 Princes Street, which is slap bang opposite the Castle. The street  in those days would have been mainly a residential one, as it was meant to be in the plans for the New Town, George Street was meant to be the main shopping area.

Their father was interested in social and political reform and the house became a centre of cultural activity. The Dad ran a number of fruit shops under the title of William Brown & Sons he trained his daughters, Agnes and Jessie, well and refused to submit to laws that he objected to, he was an activist for women’s rights. His opposition to taxes that differentiated between genders caused him to end up in the notorious Calton Gaol in Edinburgh.

Agnes and her sister Jessie  were among the first women to be seen on bicycles in Scotland. The safety bicycle was the direct ancestor of today’s machines. With a slight adaptation they attracted thousands of women to cycling and some historians point to the safety bicycle as the beginnings of suffrage, women’s rights and feminism.

Nannie and Jessie were known to heckle parliamentary candidates at meetings, Nannie was also a writer of stories, lectures, plays and articles. She was a member of The Scottish Women’s Rural Institute, as she grew older and unable to participate as much in demonstrations, her house in Castle Street became a haven for the SWRI who would seek out advice from her.  They would hold ‘Scots evenings’ or ‘Dickens evenings’, at which stories, songs, and sketches were performed.
 

She also participated in societies such as the Edinburgh Dickens Fellowship, learned to type, this might seem trivial,  but women were marginalised back then, hence the suffrage movement sprung up to right these things, it was said in an obituary the Nannie was the first woman to learn to type in all of Scotland. 


Nannie Brown died on 1st December 1943 at 3 Blackford Road, Edinburgh and is buried beside her parents at The Dean Cemetery, sadly Wiki reports that the grave has been vandalised and is not the easiest to locate, I must try and seek it out the next time I am on a wander down that way. 

The first two pics are from a newspaper reporting on their march to Selby, they also marched to John O’Groats to spread the word about women’s rights.

The third pic is from Ste[hen Dickson at  Chaos Project who seek to remember unsung or undersung heroes and especially heroines whose graves are lost or forgotten. Go have a look at the page, it’s not been updated for a while, but has some interesting posts, they don’t go into detail, but one that caught my eye was “ Remembering the 115,000 unmarked graves in St Cuthbert’s Churchyard “

https://www.facebook.com/Chaos-Project-396319260884649/


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Henry Duncan Littlejohn was born in Edinburgh on May 8th 1826, Littlejohn is one of two Edinburgh meHenry Duncan Littlejohn was born in Edinburgh on May 8th 1826, Littlejohn is one of two Edinburgh me

Henry Duncan Littlejohn was born in Edinburgh on May 8th 1826, Littlejohn is one of two Edinburgh men that are quoted as being an influence in Arthur Conan Doyle’s formation of the character Sherlock Homes.


Henry was educated in Perth before The Royal High school and the Edinburgh University studying medicine and  graduating with distinction in 1847.


It’s quite a topical post given that Henry Littlejohn, whose appointment as the first Medical Officer of Health for Edinburgh was the first appointment of its kind in Scotland. He pioneered compulsory notification of infectious disease in Edinburgh leading to the introduction of such notification throughoutt Britain. The resultant mapping of diseases allowed active prevention and led to significant reduction in mortality during the 50 years of his office. He also achieved distinction in Forensic Medicine as an expert Crown witness for most of the major Scottish trials in the latter half of the 19th century.


Eloquent and erudite, he was regarded as an outstanding teacher amidst Edinburgh contemporaries who included some of the greatest medical teachers in the world.


In 1879 due to his influence a clause was included in the local Police Act requiring such notification giving Edinburgh the lead to the whole of Great Britain. This was to prove one of the major advances in public health of the 19th century. His “Report on the Sanitary Condition of the City of Edinburgh” proved a blueprint for social reform. It clearly demonstrated the effect of population density on the spread of disease and mortality. He was able to define the incidence of dip patients throughout the city and demonstrated a clear correlation between deprivation, disease and mortality. His proposals to improve this included recommendations about building, sewage, water pollution and limiting overcrowding. The Town Council were responsive to his recommendations and demolished many aging properties which had become dangers to health.



By the time of his retiral in 1908, after 46 years of service, mortality rates in Edinburgh from infectious disease had halved. Largely as a result of his efforts cholera and typhus had disappeared and smallpox had become a rarity.

The other inspiration I mentioned earlier, for Sherlock Holmes gets a mention here in this article about both him and Liltlejohn  

https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/edinburghs-henry-littlejohn-was-also-inspiration-sherlock-holmes-899472


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7th of May 1865 saw the birth of Jessie MacLaren MacGregor in Edinburgh.MacLaren MacGregor was one o7th of May 1865 saw the birth of Jessie MacLaren MacGregor in Edinburgh.MacLaren MacGregor was one o

7th of May 1865 saw the birth of Jessie MacLaren MacGregor in Edinburgh.

MacLaren MacGregor was one of the first women to be awarded an MD by The University of Edinburgh, along with Elsie Inglis she was instrumental in setting up the Muir Hall of Residence for Women Students in Edinburgh, and a Hospice on the Royal Mile, a nursing home and maternity hospital for poor women.

Jessie was a student of Sophia Jex-Blake at the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women and was one of the first women to undertake a medical degree at the University of Edinburgh, after the barriers to women qualifying as doctors were removed by the University.

She took her Bachelor of Medicine degree in 1896, achieving first-class honours in every subject in the curriculum, passing all her professional examinations in the shortest time possible, and being awarded the Arthur Scholarship. 3 years later, she took her MD (Doctor of Medicine), winning a gold medal for her thesis on the comparative anatomy of the auditory nerve.

In 1905, for family reasons, she left her practice in Edinburgh and emigrated to the Denver, Colorado, USA, but in 1906 sadly died at the age of 42 of acute cerebral meningitis.


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 Consulate of Ukraine, Edinburgh.Many have been calling for a street to be renamed in support of Ukr Consulate of Ukraine, Edinburgh.Many have been calling for a street to be renamed in support of Ukr Consulate of Ukraine, Edinburgh.Many have been calling for a street to be renamed in support of Ukr Consulate of Ukraine, Edinburgh.Many have been calling for a street to be renamed in support of Ukr Consulate of Ukraine, Edinburgh.Many have been calling for a street to be renamed in support of Ukr Consulate of Ukraine, Edinburgh.Many have been calling for a street to be renamed in support of Ukr Consulate of Ukraine, Edinburgh.Many have been calling for a street to be renamed in support of Ukr Consulate of Ukraine, Edinburgh.Many have been calling for a street to be renamed in support of Ukr

Consulate of Ukraine, Edinburgh.

Many have been calling for a street to be renamed in support of Ukraine and it’s president, but someone has made a street sign and added it to the railings outside the consulate on Windsor Street. 

The pedestrian path is also surrounded by banners and decoration in support of Ukraine following the invasion of Russia.

Messages left include “stand with Ukraine”, “support Ukraine” and “UK help Ukraine”.

Erskine Logan Photography on Facebook. 


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La Sardina (Edinburgh 2018)

La Sardina (Edinburgh 2018)


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visited the site of the battle of flodden field the other day! despite studying the tudors at a level, id not appreciated the death toll of the three hour battle til now! the photo on the right shows the memorial, and the right shows the church where it’s claimed the body of king james iv of scotland was taken after his death.

some more of the amazing clothes i got to see today in the fashion history gallery at the national museum of scotland!! absolutely gorgeous☁️✨

medical history will always have my heart, but who can resist a bit of fashion history?? could have spent hours looking at these in the national museum of scotland today!

lovely day out in edinburgh today! couldn’t resist getting photos of some of my favourites of the paintings i got to see in the scottish national gallery!!

The grave of Major Francis Stupart of the 2nd or (Royal North British) Dragoons, more famously knownThe grave of Major Francis Stupart of the 2nd or (Royal North British) Dragoons, more famously knownThe grave of Major Francis Stupart of the 2nd or (Royal North British) Dragoons, more famously known

The grave of Major Francis Stupart of the 2nd or (Royal North British) Dragoons, more famously known as the Scots Greys.

As seen in Warriston Cemetery in Edinburgh by myself and my Wife last weekend.

Major Stupart or Lieutenant as was the position he held at Waterloo was in Cheney’s Troop at the battle in which he was also wounded. At the Museum of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards in Edinburgh Castle you can see the pattern 1797 heavy cavalry officers’ sword wielded by Lieutenant Stupart at the great clash of 1815.


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Gabrielle Ray - Edinburgh Evening News - Monday 30th January 1922

Gabrielle Ray – Edinburgh Evening News – Monday 30th January 1922


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‘Each piece telling its unique story, its own tale of woe.’

Introducing ‘Pantovola’ by Anouk de Groot, a textile art/dolls and soft sculptures artist from Scotland, who creates beauty out of primitive finds.


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These fascinating designs are inspired by the magical world of adolescence. Recalling your nostalgic memories you once fantasized as a child along with the ‘wilderness of nature’, ‘remarkable folklore animals stories’, ‘myths’, ‘fairy tales’, ‘dreams of dusty attics full of secrets’.

Every single piece are hand stitched using natural cotton, hand painted with watercolors and natural coffee dye, dressed in delicate vintage and antique fabrics collected by Anouk herself from local thrift stores and markets with final touch up of embroidery.


‘Twin Sisters’


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‘Anais’


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‘Tailed Twin Sisters’


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“I like to collect and use material with a history, used and discarded, with visible wear and tear, a story visible in its imperfections and decay…In my textile art and dolls the material I use is of great importance, as it has its own narrative already that has nothing to do with me or the piece I am creating.’ said Anouk.

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When I was a child, my life wasn’t that smooth and easy. I was born with severe asthma, I could rarely go to school, I wasn’t healthy enough to leave my bedroom. Having to stay at home with no friends, gradually draw me to live in my own imaginary world. I either read a lot of mystical stories and fairy tales or watched Pan’s Labyrinth, FairyTale: A True Story, A Little Princess, The Secret Garden repetitively day after day. Yes, I had these magical creatures created in my mind as companions. Though my body was suffering from the symptom but my mind was in harmony.

Throughout time, I lost touches of these feelings that I have left behind as I grew older, until the day I came across collection of dolls from Pantovola, every bit of magical memory are recoiling and becoming even more solid, specially when I got my hands on Hettie the hare by Anouk de Groot. I was totally enchanted.


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Taking a look at the Forth Road Bridge(Ralph Crane. 1963)

Taking a look at the Forth Road Bridge

(Ralph Crane. 1963)


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