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This is the reflection of light from two angles on to a choppy river after dark.
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Pigeons on the wing.
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Buildings off The Shore, Leith, painted on the river.
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Douglas the baker’s has been at 105 Leith Walk for decades: a small survivor of the old independent Scottish bakers’ tradition. I used to live just off Leith Walk, and it was my boast that within ten minutes walk I could buy bread of six different nationalities: Italian, Sicilian, Polish, Bangladeshi, and Chinese, and Scottish, of course, from Douglas. For other photos of the Douglas bakery
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To exit Waverley Station you usually have to climb to the bridge that runs across it from north to south, and from there up the steps to Market Street or Princes Street. This couple just came up the stairs from where I took Self-portrait For other photos of Waverley station
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Crocuses from my garden in close-up.
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This is one of the branches that got closed down when Halifax ate Bank of Scotland and became HBOS. Oddly enough, the selling agency doesn’t admit it used to be a bank: the place is described as “The premises comprise a multi windowed retail unit arranged over the ground and basement floors of a three storey and attic stone built building under a pitched and slated roof. There is also a return frontage on to Coburg Street.” It’s been closed down and for sale for some time: the paint on the outer walls is battered. Who would buy a bank?
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In 1127, King David I granted a Charter that gave “all the land below the Castle” to the church of St Cuthbert’s. This church was built 1892-94, but there has been a church on this site since at least 1077. The parish of St Cuthberts is now in the centre of the city, just below Lothian Road. But through much of its history it was outside Edinburgh: the parish was countryside, marsh and wilderness. For other pictures of St Cuthberts
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In 1505, the Barber Surgeons of Edinburgh were formally incorporated as a Craft Guild of the city, as a body concerned with the maintenance and promotion of the highest standards of surgical practice. By the 1700s, the Barber Surgeons had become the Barber Apothecaries, and Edinburgh Council, which provided bodies to the surgeons, couldn’t keep up with the demand. (To be fair, they were supposed to supply the corpses of executed criminals, and no one would have wanted them to execute more people just to be able to provide more subjects for anatomy lessons.) From the St Cuthbert parish records, by 1738 the robbing of graves from St Cuthberts graveyard to provide dead bodies to the Surgeon Apothecaries of Edinburgh had become a serious problem. The churchyard wall was raised in height. In 1803, the parish provided funds for a regular watch. In 1827, the parish built this tower. (I think the increasing level of precaution represents the increasing number of well-off people in the parish. The New Town was being built, and the Nor Loch was drained: St Cuthberts wasn’t an isolated country parish any more.) By 1837, the law had changed, allowing a person to donate a cadaver to medical research, and from then on grave-robbing was no longer a profitable profession. For other pictures of St Cuthberts
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The graveyard at St Cuthbert’s stopped being used in 1875, and City of Edinburgh District Council took over the upkeep. For other pictures of St Cuthberts
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This windowless tower is the most visible part of St Cuthbert’s graveyard, to a passer-by on Lothian Road or Kings Stables Road or Castle Terrace. It was built in 1827 to allow a watch to be kept on the graveyard after a body had been buried. For other pictures of St Cuthberts
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St Cuthbert’s graveyard is well below the level of Lothian Road. There are vaults with graves below the pavement of Lothian Road. No internments have been carried out in this graveyard since 1875: passers-by are walking over old graves. For other pictures of St Cuthberts
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Flamingos at Edinburgh Zoo.
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Penguins coming out of the water. Edinburgh Zoo has the world’s oldest captive breeding colony of penguins: the first penguin chick hatched in captivity was born at Edinburgh Zoo in 1915. Taken on 3rd March 2008 at about 3 in the afternoon.
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The coffee shop on the corner of Bernard Street and the Shore.
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The lovely Indian restaurant reflected.
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The small shopping centre at the foot of Leith Walk, Newkirkgate, has a metal tower outside it. You can walk into the tower and look up.
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Artists for the ColloquiArt exhibition talking about the art left by the previous exhbition in the GRV gallery: we’re setting up today (15th March) for the exhibition tomorrow (16th/17th march). That’s the GRV in Hatties Close off Guthrie Street in Edinburgh: five of my photos are being Colloqui’arted.
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On 7th December 2002, a fire began in the Cowgate, below North Bridge, that burned for two days. It destroyed a unique part of Edinburgh’s Old Town. No lives were lost. Five years later, the location is still a gap site: archaeologists have dug there, developers have launched plans to build there, and graffiti artists display their work there. The script on the earth is only visible from the art studio in the GRV where I took this photograph: it reads we were an affair I don’t know what that means.
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At the first sharp bend in Guthrie Street, going downhill from Chambers Street, there’s a tiny street which is mostly a flight of steps, called Hatties Close. The door on the right leads into The GRV, and through the gates at the bottom of the stair you can see the space that was left after the Great Fire of Edinburgh in December 2002.
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