Secret Edinburgh
eBook - ePub

Secret Edinburgh

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eBook - ePub

Secret Edinburgh

About this book

Not all of Edinburgh's history is well known; some of it has remained a secret, lost behind the façades of the familiar and hidden from view … until now. Fascinated by Edinburgh's hidden history, author Jack Gillon has plundered the records in a quest for the lesser-known side of Scotland's capital city.Secret Edinburgh tells the tales of the Arthur's Seat coffins, the Great Lafayette and his dog Beauty, the Six Foot High Club, the first balloon ascent, a Patent Rotary Boat, bizarre performers, Bum the dog, and much more to intrigue and amuse Edinburgh's friends old and new.

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Information

Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781445639819
Edition
0
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Introduction
  3. The Holyrood Abbey Sanctuary
  4. Netherbow Port
  5. The Edinburgh Town Guard
  6. The Luckenbooths
  7. The Heart of Midlothian – Edinburgh Tolbooth
  8. Sedan Chairs
  9. John Dowie’s Tavern
  10. Indian Peter
  11. Witches’ Well
  12. James Graham
  13. Innocent Art of Cocking
  14. The Arthur’s Seat Coffins
  15. St Anthony’s Chapel
  16. John Knox’s Grave
  17. Heave Awa’ Lads
  18. The Six Foot High Club
  19. The Mound
  20. The Grand Edinburgh Fire Balloon
  21. The Wauchope Mausoleum
  22. The Craigentinny Marbles
  23. Dr Knox Escapes the Edinburgh Mob
  24. Scottish Troglodytes – Gilmerton Cove
  25. Leith Races
  26. St Bernard’s Well
  27. Golf at Bruntsfield Links
  28. The Edinburgh Royal Zoological Gardens
  29. Sciennes Hill House
  30. Thomson’s Tower
  31. Portobello Tower
  32. The Royal Patent Gymnasium
  33. The Edinburgh Time Gun
  34. The Edinburgh International Exhibition
  35. The Prince Albert Victor Sundial
  36. The Brassfounders’ Pillar
  37. The Memorial Masons’ Pillars
  38. Jawbone Arch
  39. Nelson Pillars
  40. The Marine Gardens
  41. Rockville – A Scottish Pagoda
  42. Inverleith Daredevil
  43. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Exhibition and Congress of Rough Riders
  44. Calton Curiosities
  45. The Great Lafayette
  46. Patrick Geddes and the Outlook Tower
  47. The Scottish National Exhibition
  48. Cable Trams
  49. A Canine Connection – Bum the Dog
  50. Princes Street Railway Station
  51. The Edinburgh Distance Marker
  52. The Inch Postbox
  53. Castle Boundary Marker
  54. Police Lanterns
  55. Edinburgh’s Wild West Town
  56. Nelson Mandela
  57. The ‘99’ Ice Cream Cone