The lift and changing rooms in the White Stuff.
H/t Hannah Robinson’s excellent @secret_unusual guide to Edinburgh
“The lodge is designated No. 1 in Scotland & it may well be the oldest Freemason lodge in the world. References are made to it in 1504 & it holds minutes of the oldest Masonic meeting on 31 July 1599, making it the world’s oldest Masonic document.” #Edinburgh
The birthplace of James Clerk Maxwell, without whom I would have been unable to post this tweet
Statue of a man on a horse grabbing an eagle, plonked in the middle of a recently built housing scheme, & apparently honouring the alchemical laboratories of James IV, which once stood on the very spot (hence Silvermills, the name of the area).
The pump house of St Bernard’s Well, modelled on the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, & built in 1789 over a mineral spring discovered by 3 boys 30 years earlier. It was commissioned by Lord Gareenstone, who - so I learn from Hannah Robinson - had “an extreme fondness for pigs.”
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