Suggestions are sought for historic buildings and neighbourhoods needing regeneration in the World Heritage Site and adjacent Conservation Areas (in blue below).
Selected properties will benefit under Edinburgh World Heritage’s three-year Conservation Funding Programme (2022–25), which is backed by Historic Environment Scotland.
Police Scotland today issued a press release which we reproduce below in full.
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Road Policing Officers at Edinburgh are appealing for information following a road crash involving two vehicles on Bonnington Road, Edinburgh on Tuesday, 23 February, 2021.
A new phase in the drinking club question as regards Edinburgh has been entered upon.[1] As has been stated, the decisions on the subject in the High Court of Justiciary led to a great revival of those institutions in the city, but the assumption held by those who are running them that the decisions guard them effectively against any further attack is apparently not shared by the police, who, with almost startling suddenness, have aga
Before Bailie Waterston, Edinburgh City Police Court, to-day, a young, smart-looking fellow named Percy Roberts, and Vera Watson or Roberts, both residing in Northumberland Place, and Jeanie Morrison, residing in Cumberland Street, Edinburgh, were charged with having, on 2d inst., in the house in Northumberland Place occupied by Roberts, stolen a gold watch from an ironfounder residing in Bathgate.
Hello Spurtle Readers,
We are a group of university students pursuing an MSc in Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh.
Since last semester we have been taking a course on Urban Conservation, and as a part of our Urban Conservation coursework we are analysing the area of Bellevue Crescent, for which we require your help.
Dear Spurtle,
I am writing to vent my frustration at the loud arbiters of taste amongst us who carp on about ugly modern architecture and overgrown sick and dying trees. In short: the beige reactionary mass who seem to drag Edinburgh down to a lacklustre same-old, same-old banality.
We are blessed in Edinburgh with mesmeric views and vistas, all too often obscured by absurdly overgrown huge trees. This cult fetish for trees gets my goat. King George V Park is so much improved by the recent judicious cutting back and pruning of shrubs and trees: space and distance opened up.
The space in the valley of the park offers a perfect location and opportunity to create a well-constructed and landscaped homogenous modern quarter. Modernity benefits from a cluster of buildings and not being isolated next to an old sandstone facade.
I strongly believe that the proposed development will create a vision and a delight at last in our capital's centre that will convince these welly-booted dog-haired-ridden hippies that the shining light of modernity can be beautiful, not just endless pastiche classical masonry and columns. Yawn.
We need to inject theatre and taste into our capital city as it is crumbly and rundown in many areas.
Take a look at the brown-furnished rancid interiors of these objectors, and their anger at progress, and ask yourself: Why do they get to shout so loud when their aesthetic is so poor?
Your recent edition of the Spurtle moans on about sandstone and trees. Go travel and see beautiful modern urban design all over Europe, and please try to be less provincial and dull.
Michael Worobec
EH7 4HX
Lord Pearson heard evidence to-day in an action of divorce by Robert Ewing, labourer, 10 Rossie Place, Edinburgh, against his wife, Elizabeth Culbard or Ewing, 32 Greenside Row, Edinburgh. The pursuer (34), stated that the defender’s father was his cousin, and he was married on 2d May 1900 by declaration.
City of Edinburgh Council has now submitted more detailed plans for the former Powderhall bowling greens on Broughton Road (21/00381/FUL).