http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Can you tel where it is yet?? ;O) en Fri, 22 May 2026 03:21:18 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15399#post-197899 Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:31:19 +0000 acsimpson 197899@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ahh, the penny just dropped. It used to be the border to West Lothian and the inscription is shires not ships. So the two "ships" presumably are Edinburgh and West Lothian or their 17th century predecessors.</p> <p>I guess a lot of people haven't seen the lettering, the parapets are low and the views in both directions draw your eyes over them.</p> <p>The week hasn't been entirely without wind, Wednesday's North Easterly helped me shave a minute off my previous fastest commute home. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15399#post-197895 Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:07:50 +0000 DaveC 197895@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dunno</p> <p><a href="http://s126.photobucket.com/user/Dave_Crampton/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150903_082243_zpsqnpesgpw.jpg.html"><img src="http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p86/Dave_Crampton/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150903_082243_zpsqnpesgpw.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="http://s126.photobucket.com/user/Dave_Crampton/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150903_082246_zpshsgm5svu.jpg.html"><img src="http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p86/Dave_Crampton/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150903_082246_zpshsgm5svu.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="http://s126.photobucket.com/user/Dave_Crampton/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150903_082250_zpsfdomxhet.jpg.html"><img src="http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p86/Dave_Crampton/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150903_082250_zpsfdomxhet.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="http://s126.photobucket.com/user/Dave_Crampton/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150903_082253_zpsxlnvvarh.jpg.html"><img src="http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p86/Dave_Crampton/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150903_082253_zpsxlnvvarh.jpg"></a></p> <p>It was a nice day, and has been a nice week, with little wind. I have never seen that lettering before which is why I took their photographs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15399#post-197881 Fri, 04 Sep 2015 11:39:33 +0000 acsimpson 197881@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You really have to know the inscriptions are there to spot them as they are easy to miss at a quick glance.</p> <p>Does anyone know what the two ships which are referred to are?</p> <p>P.S. The bee I was referring to was the one on top of the wall. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15399#post-197838 Thu, 03 Sep 2015 16:37:20 +0000 acsimpson 197838@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Would I be considered a cheat if I suggested it was the trees rather than the inscription which I recognised? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15399#post-197836 Thu, 03 Sep 2015 16:29:06 +0000 DaveC 197836@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>:O)</p> <p>click on the picture, It actually says</p> <p>"Repaired Be Both Sheires 1687"</p> <p>As I wrote above the picture ;O)</p> <p>Well Done A!! :O) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15399#post-197835 Thu, 03 Sep 2015 16:13:41 +0000 acsimpson 197835@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The original Brig?</p> <p>Although I don't recognise the bee in the second picture. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15399#post-197833 Thu, 03 Sep 2015 15:37:02 +0000 DaveC 197833@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Which bit? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15399#post-197831 Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:58:41 +0000 acsimpson 197831@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Can we send a postcard from Cramond instead? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15399#post-197828 Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:18:36 +0000 DaveC 197828@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Repaired Be Both Sheires 1687</p> <p><a href="http://s126.photobucket.com/user/Dave_Crampton/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150903_082227_zpsqxdpfzxs.jpg.html"><img src="http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p86/Dave_Crampton/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150903_082227_zpsqxdpfzxs.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15399#post-197827 Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:14:51 +0000 DaveC 197827@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Repaired by Both Ships 1761, And again in 1771 (presumabley shoddy workmanship (no pun intended) the first time round).</p> <p><a href="http://s126.photobucket.com/user/Dave_Crampton/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150903_082212_zpstrkqzjez.jpg.html"><img src="http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p86/Dave_Crampton/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150903_082212_zpstrkqzjez.jpg"></a></p> <p>Click on the photo to see the full picture!</p> <p>Answers on a SAE sent to me c.o. chdot! ;O) </p>