A very enjoyable chat with panyagua on the commute this morning.
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a very nice ding dong bell going under Harrison Rd Bridge this morning at 8.41 heading out of town. anyone here?
MiniSRD and I both commented on it. we were 'jogging'. her favourite part is going 'ding, ding, ding' as we approach bridges ;)
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@SRD that sounds a little too early to have been me today.
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@Roibeard shepherding his clan at a good clip in gloriously assertive primary on Craigmillar Park.
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@jdanielP i was wondering if it was you. maybe I meant 9.41? we are so off-schedule these days.
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Real hipster - with fixed bike and beard.
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Two thin riders heading west along Gilmore Place on fat bikes. Maybe going Colinton Dell via canal.
Floating over the potholes. First time I've seen two together since Strathyre (and those were rented).Posted 7 years ago # -
Chap on bike towing a trailer down Cutlins Road yesterday evening - the driver of the car who was overtaking me as I cycled up got a bit too close to him, I thought... I wasn't sure if there was a child in the trailer or not.
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@SRD I definitely wasn't running that late, maybe 8:50-9?
@chdot I like the idea of a 'fixed beard' to distinguish from somebody who might have been wearing a false beard.
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There is a mystery tunnel that has been revealed in the gap site next to city art centre heading west.
The tunnel looks to go under Cockburn street? The road appears to be Being held up by rusty iron pipes?
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You mean Market St?
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I was standing on market street looking up the gap site which I think links to the back of Cockburn street e.g down the back of viva Mexico. So the tunnel emerges half way up a cliff face then a gap site, then market street. If that has cleared anything up?
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What's that saying, what's Edinburgh built on? Edinburgh.
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Ah, thought you meant under road, which wouldn't surprise me - deliveries from station (like Fruitmarket).
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Gembo, I investigated this a few days ago. It's probably the original section of Anchor Close, before the area was redeveloped.
Anchor Close ran north from the High Street to the back of what was once the Argyle Tavern on Market Street, where the gap site is. Prior to the tavern the whole area was, literally, markets (poultry, fish, meat), and slaughterhouses.
At the back of the tavern was a stairway that led steeply up the side of the hill. When Cockburn Street was built, a great swathe of old buildings was demolished (including a school, and Old Greenmarket Close which is where Cockburn Street meets the High Street) and the ground level was built up. Our mysterious archway is, I believe, a covered-over remnant of the close. The rusty iron pipes are piles, and they show how much the ground level was raised. Cockburn Street cut Anchor Close in two. What is now the northern stub is actually a replacement, because the Cockburn Street tenements are on a different alignment at that point.
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Thanks arellcat.
Seems to me that west of The bridges there was a big amount of building on top of existing stuff on the north side of the hill. E.g. City chambers on top of Mary kings close. Etc. But east of the bridges there are many original ginnels or closes including the one Boswall sneaked down to blow up Darnley at kirk o field which is where old college is now. Though some say they just strangled him and his servant then set off a bomb.
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Concrete was invented in the early to mid-1800s, and they were building bridges out of it by 1900. Could the big slab be that old? I suspect it's more recent, which would suggest the piles are also more recent. Anyone know?
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Close encounters of the third kind?
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Think they're https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrow_prop so post 1939.
Bit odd to use so many - would be better to have put a beam in as well.
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@Arellcat: that slab looks brand new. Could one interpretation be that the things chdot reckons are Acrow props are also modern (brand new) and that the people redeveloping the site have pile driven a line of them into the ground, then poured a concrete slab on top and then dug away the ground between them and the camera. Essentially the piles are holding up the hill at that point before they build something in front of them.
I'm sure I've seen a similar technique being used on Grand Designs (the source of all my construction knowledge)...
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Concrete was invented in the early to mid-1800s
What have the Romans ever done for us? Opus caementicium. Yeah, but apart from that....
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@greenroofer you may be right. This site was previously a vacant lot with a two storey concrete wall of a dark grey colour IIRC where you can now see the pipes and the archway behind. The building next door is being knocked down slowly.
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If you know anyone who might have 'forgotten' a bike at Waverley...
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Spotted that Tarzan Heseltine fined £5000 for knocking cyclist down with his jag
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Second last line
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Customer experience director, loving it
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Of course that's just the normal ScotRail number but there is a real person -
"
I am a dynamic, charismatic and passionate leader who delivers the customer experience through people.
"
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jacqui-taggart-696a97
But I don't imagine she wants phoned up everytime anyone smokes on a railway platform!
https://twitter.com/alastairdalton/status/646414840106516481
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Was that @gembo in fetching pink coming down the hill from Beecraigs to Linlithgow this morning? I was a passenger in a car going the other way.
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@greenfoofer, yes it is was me. We had reversed a bathgate's Alps route to allow some of the peloton who were pushed for time to bail at oat ridge. I hAve been plagued recently by a mechanical which culminated in a chain link fail on the return just before wilkieston at side entrance to Jupiter art land. That chain now has three temporary links in it and is still making a noise. I came back up ravelrig hill with one foot unclipped just in case. Curiously one kind member of the peloton who helped with the repair found a pair of plastic cherries when he was wiping his hands in the wispy grass on the verge. He then tied them to my brake cable reminding me to get a new chaIn.
Reversing the route made it much hillier but also facilitated a stop at mannerstons coffe place outside Linlithgow (at aTime when it was open and about two thirds round)
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Must have been the day for Beecraigs as we visited there too, albeit after I had done my January long ride.
They now have a small MTB skills park which is very good (it's not Glentress but enough to be going on with).
It was a bit too much for the wee one who pushed her bike up the hill and promptly pushed it down again. I did try a run with her attached via the Trailgator - she didn't ask for it to be repeated...
The bigger one took on board my coaching and by the end of it had mastered descending (& climbing) without putting his foot down :-) #prouddad
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