CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 16years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
Those little oddities from around the city (expecting chdot in particular to have LOADS).
Waterloo Well in St Leonards
Waterloo Well by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr
Not quite in it's original location.
Craigentinny Marbles (visited on a CCE ride)
Night Marbles by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr
Don't appear to have the Morningside Wild West Town on Flickr.
"expecting chdot in particular to have LOADS"
Where do I start...
The bridge where two well known film directors filmed from - one as a tribute to the other.
Looks like could have been the bridge used by bill Douglas? But with train line missing. The chap jumping re-enacting the scene. .? My childhood, my way home and my ain folk very powerful films. Comrades also one I like
That nice wee quiet bit down by the river just off Miller Row:
The Stockbridge Obvious steps:
"Looks like could have been the bridge used by bill Douglas?"
Yes and Lindsay Anderson.
"He recalls being told by Lindsay Anderson, an early admirer and encourager of Douglas’s work"
Three graves/memorials
Robert Louis Stevenson memorial stone in Princes Street Gardens
A Man of Letters by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr
Grave of 'Beauty', the Great Lafayette's dog (he was as famous as, and contemporary of, Houdini, and died in a fire at the end of a show where the Festival Theatre now stands. People thought it was part of the show at first. His dog had died a couple of days earlier, and the Piershill cemetery folk agreed ot bury the dog there if he agreed to be buried there as well when he died, little knowing it would be so soon after....
Lafayette 1 by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr
Plaque (in Dean Cemetery), as far as can be read, says:
Col Robert A. Smith
10th Mississippi Regiment
Confederate States Army
A [ ] of Edinburgh
Who fell mortally wounded
At the
Battle of Mumfordsville
Kentucky
September 14th 1862
While gallantly leading
In the
Charge of Fort Craig
Aged 26 years
Confederate War Vet by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr
Also in Dean Cemetery, Sir Thomas Bouch:
and William Henry Playfair:
And that bridge again:
So where is 'That bridge again'?? Taa.
Newcraighall village.
Oh yes I think I know where it is.
Yep, after googling, I have ridden past it. It was spoken about on our guided ride from Annan to S Queensferry.
This Stone, (hope link works http://goo.gl/maps/SjBCp ) shows a stone which used to mark the city of Edinburgh boundry. When approaching monarchs used to visit, soldiers used to ride out to this point to escort the monarch to the city.
38 years and now two ancestor-brigades out of date.
Not a lighthouse
Not a ship
Look up and you'll see the only correct use of a pre-1801 Union Flag, on the NLB ensign
Thrifty
World's first purpose-built motor vehicle factory
"This Stone [...] shows a stone which used to mark the city of Edinburgh boundry"
Some good info on Geograph:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2016573
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2355101
Topically, given the year, a potential link with Flodden, but sounds like it good be just yet another Walter Scott myth.
A search for "Hidden Edinburgh" brings up one or two interesting results.
(Geographs by 'Kim Traynor' are usually worth a read)
Topically, given the year, a potential link with Flodden, but sounds like it good be just yet another Walter Scott myth.
The Scottish Army did camp on the Borough Muir (occupied by present day Bruntsfield, easter Morningside and wester Grange) prior to Flodden. So the location would be correct.
"The "Roman" bath"
THAT is one I don't know!
Dreghorn?
It's in the grounds of the Scout Campsite at Bonaly.
Thanks
No pictures, but I once went out to Cramond, and saw just south of the carpark, some archeologists diggin an old terraced street. After talking to them, they told me that under the carpark (behind the Cramond Inn) was a Roman Villa (I think eith that or a fort) which they didn't have enough funds to uncover properly, so after recording parts of it, they sand bagged it and left it as it is now.
Can anyone confirm this please?
DaveC, it was the bath house that went with the fort (which is in the grounds of the church).
Wow!! Check out those flares!! :O)
Cheers cb.
Thread subvert -
NOT like this anymore (but regularly features on forum) -
I guess the perennial flooding is a new phenomenon
Do you have many other fascinating old photos of Edinburgh cycle paths "before it were tarmacced"?
@ k
Funny you should ask that.
Found a lot when I was looking for something else.
Actually useful reminder of some of the things that HAVE changed (mostly for good) in last 20 years or so.
New thread over w/e.
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