Secret Leith

Jack Gillon

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781445686103
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Leith has played a long and prominent role in Scottish history. As the major port serving Edinburgh, it has been the stage on which many significant events in the nation's past have taken place, from housing the Scottish court to witnessing civil war, acting as the port of call for royal arrivals and becoming its own burgh until the amalgamation with Edinburgh in 1920. The 1950s brought the final days of the old and ancient thoroughfares in the heart of Leith: the Kirkgate, St Andrew Street, Tolbooth Wynd, Bridge Street and many more would disappear in the coming decade. However, the town retains a passionate sense of individuality and its people a proud sense of identity. Leith has seen it all. In Secret Leith, local author and historian Jack Gillon delves into the town's past and offers an insight into some of the lesser-known aspects of its long and distinguished history.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Leith Walk and the Pilrig Muddles
• 2 Leith Central Station and the Prince of Wales in the Central Bar
• 3 Julian the Tank Bank in Leith
• 4 The Kirkgate
• 5 The People’s History of Leith Mural
• 6 Around the Shore
• 7 Royal Landings at the Shore
• 8 Mutiny at Leith
• 9 Leith Races
• 10 Golf at Leith Links
• 11 Leith Citadel
• 12 The Porters Stone
• 13 John Sakeouse: Leith’s Inuit (Eskimo)
• 14 John Home
• 15 The Martello Tower
• 16 The Corn Exchange, Constitution Street
• 17 The First Christmas Season Card
• 18 The Robert Burns Statue and the Gladstone Family
• 19 The Leith Ragged Industrial School
• 20 The Leith Provident Co-operative
• 21 The German Kultur Panel
• 22 The Zeppelin Raid on Leith
• 23 Gibson’s Aeroplanes
• 24 Leith Airport
• 25 Leith for Business
• 26 The Buttercup Dairy
• 27 Jackie Dennis, Leith’s Own Rock and Roll Hero