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"Major fire breaks out at empty Edinburgh church"
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Posted 12 years ago #
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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!
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From the photos in the news, it looks pretty terminal for the church.
"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."
(Bertie, D, 'Scottish Episcopal Clergy 1689-2000')and a view from Sixties Edinburgh on Flickr.
Posted 12 years ago # -
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Tom Mac (@maccery)
11/02/2013 18:45
@STVEdinburgh here's another one from Arthur's seathttp://pic.twitter.com/qakRD24C
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Posted 12 years ago # -
Was cycling through the smoke in George Street earlier!
Posted 12 years ago # -
must have been a lot of damp wood in there or something. Stone doesn't normally burn with that much smoke.
Posted 12 years ago # -
You could smell the fire in the stairwell of my office in George St. Impressive stuff.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Could smell it in the St James centre as well.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Sorry - mis-post
Posted 12 years ago # -
Church of the Holy Spirit by the Magnificent Octopus, on FlickrPhoto 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.
Posted 10 years ago # -
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.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Caramba - another former church now nursery and pizza express n morningside busted as cannabis farm (in the nursery, nursery for kids)
Posted 10 years ago # -
Yes but Braid church was the United Presbyterians, so it's more than just something in the holy water.
Posted 10 years ago # -
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.
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).
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.
Watch out, big brother is detecting your heat
Posted 10 years ago #
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