http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Major fire breaks out at empty Edinburgh church" en Fri, 22 May 2026 05:58:46 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-185303 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:03:57 +0000 gembo 185303@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A lot of these congregations were presumably left money by rich members and then built new churches which seemed to operate for maybe only 50 years and then become warehouses and latterly cannabis farms.</p> <p>Was having some banter with the community Bobby in the library today. He told me the following (in relation to my quip about cannabis farms being increasingly detected).</p> <p>The police SCOTLAND helicopter in the sky over livingston at 4 a.m. Heat detecting camera detects a body on the move and pings the co-ordinates to the community Bobby. He gets to the scene. No suspect, unless invisible, he can see no one. Then behind him and up in the top floor of a house he spots a woman washing the dishes. The camera has detected the hot water going down the drain. A body of water no less.</p> <p>Watch out, big brother is detecting your heat </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-185301 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:13:40 +0000 kaputnik 185301@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes but Braid church was the United Presbyterians, so it's more than just something in the holy water. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-185300 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 18:59:43 +0000 gembo 185300@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Caramba - another former church now nursery and pizza express n morningside busted as cannabis farm (in the nursery, nursery for kids) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-185299 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 17:51:47 +0000 gembo 185299@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Another episcopalian mission church from turn of the 20th century also closed as church in 1941 (piskies up to something?) St Kentigerms at the canal basin also in the news as has just been busted as a cannabis farm. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-185278 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 12:49:56 +0000 kaputnik 185278@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/rGFVm8"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8746/16869367867_d3f1005d9f.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/rGFVm8">Church of the Holy Spirit</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/52706710@N03/">the Magnificent Octopus</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>Photo I took at the end of last year. There's currently an application with the planning committee to demolish the church and build (wait for it) a block of student flats here. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-100425 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:15:06 +0000 Coxy 100425@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sorry - mis-post </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-100417 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:56:24 +0000 chdot 100417@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/latest-news/two-children-charged-over-church-fire-1-2790877" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/latest-news/two-children-charged-over-church-fire-1-2790877</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-100057 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:24:15 +0000 chdot 100057@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/latest-news/probe-into-edinburgh-church-fire-cause-1-2785387" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/latest-news/probe-into-edinburgh-church-fire-cause-1-2785387</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-99995 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:17:41 +0000 Zenfrozt 99995@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Could smell it in the St James centre as well. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-99992 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:21:20 +0000 PS 99992@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You could smell the fire in the stairwell of my office in George St. Impressive stuff. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-99991 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:21:17 +0000 kaputnik 99991@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>must have been a lot of damp wood in there or something. Stone doesn't normally burn with that much smoke. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-99988 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:57:37 +0000 Coxy 99988@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was cycling through the smoke in George Street earlier! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-99987 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:51:51 +0000 chdot 99987@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> Tom Mac (@maccery)<br /> 11/02/2013 18:45<br /> @STVEdinburgh here's another one from Arthur's seat </p> <p><a href="http://pic.twitter.com/qakRD24C" rel="nofollow">http://pic.twitter.com/qakRD24C</a></p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-99982 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:27:07 +0000 Arellcat 99982@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From the photos in the news, it looks pretty terminal for the church.</p> <p><em>"The congregation first gathered in 1886 when the Church of the Holy Spirit (Abbeyhill Mission) in Sunnybank Terrace, Abbeyhill, was built and dedicated. The charge was renamed St Matthew's Mission when a new iron church was erected in 1896; the church was dedicated in 1902. St Matthew's was closed in 1944."</em><br /> (Bertie, D, 'Scottish Episcopal Clergy 1689-2000')</p> <p>and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixtiesedinburgh/6971715808/">a view from Sixties Edinburgh</a> on Flickr. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-99975 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:34:35 +0000 crowriver 99975@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aye, my son saw the smoke as he was visiting a friend very near to the fire this afternoon. 11 fire engines were tallied, apparently! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9473#post-99952 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:34:26 +0000 chdot 99952@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/latest-news/major-fire-breaks-out-at-empty-edinburgh-church-1-2785387" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/latest-news/major-fire-breaks-out-at-empty-edinburgh-church-1-2785387</a> </p>