http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Tour of East Lothian chimney farms en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:16:12 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-53606 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:15:56 +0000 Cyclingmollie 53606@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks. Very pleasing. I've been invited to see the wood burning system at Eastfield by the owner who read the article. A chance to see a chimney in use. I will take photos. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-53599 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:44:39 +0000 amir 53599@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fame at last! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-53597 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:38:30 +0000 DaveC 53597@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Congratulations. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-53529 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:34:37 +0000 Cyclingmollie 53529@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Article which appeared in last week's East Lothian Courier: </p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/44681630@N02/6719433161/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/6719433161_5274691ecd.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/44681630@N02/6719433161/">East Lothian Courier article</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/44681630@N02/">Cycling Mollie</a>, on Flickr</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/44681630@N02/6719435083/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6719435083_eb76fcc995.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/44681630@N02/6719435083/">East Lothian Courier article detail</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/44681630@N02/">Cycling Mollie</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-51328 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:52:27 +0000 kaputnik 51328@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@DAveC Route sort of decided, well at least some of the points on it are (discussed above I think).</p> <p>As for JC chimney it's in Leith, but other side, off top of Leith Walk. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-51326 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:36:47 +0000 amir 51326@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cuando? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-51321 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:07:52 +0000 DaveC 51321@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Have you decided on a route yet nik? </p> <p>As for the JC chimney, is that the one behind Tecos by the Water of Leith in Broughton? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-51312 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:14:07 +0000 kaputnik 51312@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It has been suggested by at least two posters here (on Twitter) that the Tour de Moors should pay a visit to Carlops to sample the Alan Ramsay Inn and also to re-create this photo infront of the Witches' Loup;</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/6576842209/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6576842209_ee4b005c58.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/6576842209/">Carlops Cycle Chic, 1914-style</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kaputniq/">kaputniq</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>(That's Great Grandpa K. on the left)</p> <p>Position pretty much here;</p> <p><a href="http://www.UploadScreenshot.com/image/656425/1143503"><img src="http://img1.UploadScreenshot.com/images/thumb/12/36004165656.jpg"></a></p> <p>Trees a more recent addition. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-48147 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:08:45 +0000 Cyclingmollie 48147@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks, Amir, yes, I do own a copy. That's how I was able to royally bore you with farm facts on the Chimney Sweep. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-48113 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:03:45 +0000 amir 48113@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>See this book Tom?</p> <p><a href="http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/buildings-of-the-land.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/buildings-of-the-land.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-46364 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:11:28 +0000 amir 46364@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sure, Tom. Many eyes and all that ... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-46361 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:41:16 +0000 Cyclingmollie 46361@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's not on my list. Well spotted and thanks. It's called Dirleton New Mains. Google Maps has a link to some photos of it on Panoramio as well. Engine house and chimney, dutch barn by A &amp; J Main, Glasgow and an Atcost cattle shed. Can I put the photo on my Flickr page (atttributed of course)? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-46345 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:56:08 +0000 amir 46345@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tom, is this chimney in your list. It's just north of Dirleton and visible from the road to Yellow Craig. Sorry my zoom isn't very good so the chimney isn't too evident.</p> <p><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6108/6336615329_ba210e6448.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-45535 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:18:05 +0000 chdot 45535@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"an awesome photo"</p> <p>Ta (like yours too).</p> <p>Got lucky.</p> <p>Was up Craiglockhart (Easter) - fab view in various directions. It all looked a bit hazy, then the cloud moved away from the sun and illuminated things strongly from a low angle.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/6315325462/in/photostream">More mundane chimney</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/6314766647/in/photostream">Saughton Prison</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-45534 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:30:01 +0000 Cyclingmollie 45534@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks kaputnik. I used to go into the Shrubhill depot to renew my Council driving permit. It was an open secret that the test instructor always asked the same observation test question which was to name the sign you'd just driven past in Lochend. All you had to say was "beware children crossing". </p> <p>They had an old double-decker playbus in the far corner that I'd helped paint in Fife. I had to learn how to drive it so that we could bring it out the shed which involved a lot of opening little hatches in the outside and turning on switches. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-45530 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:08:53 +0000 kaputnik 45530@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Seeing as we're sharing chimneys, this one is lovely;</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5673470079/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5145/5673470079_a72921eef8.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5673470079/">JC Was Here</a> (John Cotton tobacco mill) </p> <p>But this one is not long for this world I fear;</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5698578299/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3098/5698578299_2a46cfb834.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5698578299/">Shrubill Power Station</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-45529 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:01:29 +0000 Cyclingmollie 45529@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@chdot Nice one. Actually, that's <strike>not a bad</strike> an awesome photo, all the little chimney pots and the big stack in the middle. I think I like all brick chimneys. There's an especially good one beside the old Infirmary Street baths. Glad to see that's been saved. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-45520 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:16:02 +0000 amir 45520@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah, thanks chdot. Nr Vogrie. Have streetviewed the chimney (saves cycling) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-45518 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:06:53 +0000 chdot 45518@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>By Currie?</p> <p>That's what I thought - think there is a Blinkbonny Mill there.</p> <p>Click the photo and click the map. MidL.</p> <p>UPDATE</p> <p>"The hamlet of Blinkbonny grew up during the late 19th and early 20th century alongside Blinkbonny Farm. Millworkers' houses were erected by the owners of Kinleith Mill"</p> <p><a href="http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/ccc/history/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/ccc/history/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-45517 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:05:15 +0000 chdot 45517@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Subverting the theme - not farm (or East L)</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/6314769437/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6118/6314769437_eec3bd61e0.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/6314769437/">Industrial Edinburgh</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-45516 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:04:01 +0000 amir 45516@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>By Currie? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-45514 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:37:37 +0000 amir 45514@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Where's Blinkbonny? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-45513 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:30:49 +0000 amir 45513@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice photos, Tom </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-45469 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:23:26 +0000 Cyclingmollie 45469@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@amir, I found the chimney in Dalkeith:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/44681630@N02/6314674142/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6019/6314674142_75de9aee97.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/44681630@N02/6314674142/">Kippielaw</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/44681630@N02/">Cycling Mollie</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>It's very ornate for a farm chimney; I've not seen another quite like it. The conservatory looks out towards the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5422783184/">odd vent thing</a> kaputnik found. Over the hill I also visited Blinkbonny where I found this:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/44681630@N02/6314662872/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6039/6314662872_619f1c5f45.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/44681630@N02/6314662872/">Blinkbonny</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/44681630@N02/">Cycling Mollie</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>You can't see it from the photo very well but the brick-work has a spiral pattern. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-45424 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:34:55 +0000 DaveC 45424@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Its not that Anth. There is a blue point on the road next to the actual Chimney but I tried clicking on it and there is no attrubited documentation. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-45421 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:05:50 +0000 kaputnik 45421@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@anth the old breweries at Duddingston / Niddrie are mapped out on the big KML map that I shared previously.</p> <p>As far as the mill lade goes, just upstream on the Figgate Burn (south) there is a small dam, reservoir and sluice system on the map that feeds the lade.</p> <p>This lies to the east of where the Woodlands Grove cul-de-sac is now, the course of the burn follows the old reservoir but looks to just be overgrown now.</p> <p>You can trace the lade running under the road and into a large mill building that is not aligned to either Willowbrae or Duddingston Road. On the 1895 map it is marked as a corn mill. The building is gone and Duddingston Mills street now sits on top of the site. The lade re-entered the burn due west of where Duddingston Primary now is. The mill is marked on 1854 map, giving an indication of age. By the 1908 map the area is still called "mills" and the building and sluice and lade system are still there, but the mill isn't identified, suggesting it may have been out of use. Would be interesting to root about and see if any signs of it remain. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-45417 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:26:20 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 45417@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah, you're right, the brewery site is now under a housing estate I think. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=5#post-45416 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:25:06 +0000 Roibeard 45416@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Google streetview is looking up the Figgate Burn in the area known as Duddingston Mills from at least the late 19th Century. There's a mill lade running essentially under your feet at this point, running roughly parallel to the Burn under the crossroads towards the new housing opposite.</p> <p>I'd assume it was associated with the mill workings.</p> <p>Robert<br /> (procrastinating and enjoying the Uni's online historical mapping resources!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=4#post-45415 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:09:18 +0000 Roibeard 45415@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@anth Those two locations don't appear to match up - the chimney stalk is south of the Duddingston crossroads is SSW of the Google maps location, yet the view there is SSE. I think the distances don't match up either, as I think there is indeed something erected in that waste ground, not simply visible beyond it.</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2899&page=4#post-45409 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:09:39 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 45409@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aha, could be <a href="http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/262423/details/edinburgh+duddingston+road+west+drybrough+s+brewery+chimney+stalk/">this</a>... </p>