Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵
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Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets
Happy Birthday Bonnie! 🎉 21 Today 🎊 Keeping it classy at the Red Bridge ♥️
Jeezo, I'd heard the rumours about the Subway sandwiches sign but genuinely thought you had to be joking.
Did the same with The Boy's bike on an even worse example of tehe genre yesterday at the indoor play place. This is the only way to use these crappy racks. (Also, why would anyone cycle to the place that's right next to the cycle path?)
They'll ask me how I got her, I'll say; I saved my money 🌞🚣🏼
Why call it Saskatoon Berry when you can mis-spell Amelanchier alnifolia var semi-integrifolia?
Can you just call it a Monkey Puzzle please if you're trying to get your arboretum in a public park to engage with folk in the public park (footnote the species and variety if you must)🙏🏼
The Conservative Club had sold up at the same time as the Liberals. Debenhams acquired the whole row of property here to combine the two their new 6-storey Edinburgh store, by way of a modern central link building at no 111. This opened on November 12th 1981.
The subsequent history of the building is confusing - the ground floor shop (called 110 Princes St.) was River Island. 109 became Levis. But 109 was also the number of everything above the first floor, with a street door, and was part of the Debenhams store (former Scottish Conservative Club)
The success of the Palace Hotel saw a new, larger premises (architect James Macintyre Henry) built at no. 117 on the corner of Castle Street, which opened in 1888. The Scottish Liberal Club took no. 109 as their new club rooms, next to the Scottish Convervatives who had their rooms at 112.
It is therefore somewhat ironic that the building that has burned down here was rebuilt on an original Princes Street property as... THE PALACE HOTEL!
It is 35 years and 1 month to the day since the vacant building a few doors up, the Palace Hotel, met a similar fate. It was so badly damaged the whole corner block had to be demolished a few days later.
I don't doubt AI enhancement used in good faith here, so I pick on Donald purely as a teaching point of the dangers of the technology - original scene has been "enhanced" by filling in the blanks with anachronistic details or things that were never there, and removing things it doesn't recognise
Saying the quiet part out loud here aren't we Nige?
The problem with picking a typeface that Signal would have been happy to use is that sooner or later you'll end up using it for a piece about Jude Bellingham. 🤦♂️
Thanks. Oddly Wordpress thinks 1891when is a word and didn't highlight it.
Move over guys, make way for our new world champion's champion of flavours in beer where flavours shouldn't be 🍺🍓🥛🤢
Yes I'm sure you were both there for that and not "Ups and Downs of a Superstud" 😆
Forget about getting up early for the football when instead you could get up early and read about the wonderfully nicknamed "Scabby Lala". Once Edinburgh's premier pornographic cinema, despite decades of neglect this largely hidden building retains the city's oldest intact(ish) cinema interior. 🎦🫦🫢
Look I know we don't need any more examples of why AI-ification of everything is shite, but have one anyway. It even gives the maths that any fool can work out means there would be a Friday 6 years later, then confidently asserts that it could not happen for the remainder of the decade.
February 1982 and the Evening News complains about the price of petrol (33.7p per litre) and compares it to the relative value of their 13p newspaper. The Bank of England inflation calculator puts that petrol at £1.24 in 2026 money (it's actually £1.48 today) newspaper at 48p (now actually £1.50)
ClassicCarSky - can anyone identify these two swish-looking motors in this 1951 photograph of Edinburgh please? 🚗🚦🚗🙏