Threadinburgh @Threadinburger
An archive of the Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history threads of @cocteautriplets. Expect the unexpected: maps, transport, industries and obscurities. threadinburgh.scot Leith, Edinburgh and Scotland Joined August 2022-
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The thread about T. & H. Smith; Coffee, Cannabis and Chloroform in Canonmills threadinburgh.scot/2024/11/04/the…
The thread about Lufra; or how one street in Edinburgh got its unusual name threadinburgh.scot/2024/08/02/the…
The thread about the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the unlikely home of the King of France threadinburgh.scot/2024/05/26/the…
The thread about Craigroyston, a wandering placename on the map of north Edinburgh threadinburgh.scot/2024/05/25/the…
The thread about the 1926 St. Margaret's railway crash; inevitable fatalities during the confusion of the General Strike threadinburgh.scot/2024/05/14/the…
The thread about Ramage & Ferguson, the Leith shipyard that built luxury steam yachts for the rich and famous threadinburgh.scot/2024/05/02/the…
The thread about the history of Leith's parliamentary representation and why it resulted in a "Dirty Trick" threadinburgh.scot/2024/04/21/the…
The thread about the Causewayside Lads Institute and the wandering life of Victor de Spiganovicz, self-described "Mystery Man" threadinburgh.scot/2024/04/13/the…
The thread about the Rule of the Strap; the origins and demise of the peculiar corporal punishment in Scottish education threadinburgh.scot/2024/04/09/the…
The thread about 122 years of local political change in Edinburgh; from Moderates and Progressives to Communists and Protestants threadinburgh.scot/2024/03/07/the…
The thread about the Jawbone Arch; 127 years on the Meadows but missing over a decade threadinburgh.scot/2024/03/01/the…
The thread about the real story of the Penny Tenement; slums and landlordism in 1950s Edinburgh threadinburgh.scot/2024/02/22/the…
The thread about the travails of Edinburgh's first Zoo and an Elephant called Murdoch that called the city home threadinburgh.scot/2024/02/16/the…
The thread about how Leith opened itself up by bridging its river and why that changed forever in 1955 threadinburgh.scot/2024/02/14/the…
The thread about Thomas Chalmers and the West Port Territorial Free Church; an experiment in local self-improvement threadinburgh.scot/2024/02/13/the…
This is an old thread, but one of my favourite, and seeing as I have just been updating and amending it I wanted to take the opportunity to share it again. threadinburgh.scot/2024/02/06/the…
The thread about The Palace at the Foot of the Walk; the many lives of an early cinema threadinburgh.scot/2024/01/30/the…
The thread about Edinburgh's roadhouses; when the glamour of art deco hostelries took on the Temperance Movement (and won!) threadinburgh.scot/2024/01/25/the…
The thread about Jean Fletcher Watson, the woman who gave the city its art collection and its Art Centre threadinburgh.scot/2024/01/07/the…
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