š¢The time has come to create a chronological thread of all my other threads to help keep track of everything.
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March 2018. The tread about Restalrig, Lochend, the Logans and their place in Early Modern Scottish History. threadreaderapp.com/thread/9779977ā¦
March 2018. The thread about the Lost Streets of Leith. threadreaderapp.com/thread/9780619ā¦
April 2018. The thread about the 4 Edinburgh to Leith canals that were never built. threadreaderapp.com/thread/9825684ā¦
May 2018. The thread about the toponymy of Scottish railway stations; what their place names mean and where from they came. threadreaderapp.com/thread/9982852ā¦
August 2018. The thread of #NowAndThen image overlays showing demolished parts of Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1030015ā¦
Aug 2018. The thread of #NowAndThen images of the railways around Granton and a bit of the history of Bruce Peebles & Co. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1035464ā¦
Jan 2019. A thread for the anniversary of the closure of the "Waverley Route" railway from Edinburgh to Carlisle via Hawick. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1082210ā¦
Feb 2019. The tread about the Chancelot Roller Flour Mill, its railways and some other SCWS factories and brands threadreaderapp.com/thread/1097431ā¦
March 2019. The thread about Powderhall, its railway, its destructor, its old house of that name and its stadium. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1103230ā¦
May 2019. The thread about Mr Morton's Patent Slip and Thomas Morton of Leith. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1127946ā¦
May 2019. The thread about the final days of Henry Robb Shipbuilders of Leith, the occupation of the winter of 1983-4 and what's left of it. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1131300ā¦
June 2019. The thread about the vanished 16th century walls and fortifications of Leith, the 17th century citadel and what they might have looked like. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1138754ā¦
July 2019. The thread about the Denny Hoverbus; when 1960s Scotland tasted the air-cushioned future of public transport. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1145813ā¦
July 2019. The thread about the first ever town plan of Leith and what it tells us. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1152237ā¦ ==
July 2019. The thread about King David I of Scotland, the foundation of Leith and what some of early Leith might have been like.threadreaderapp.com/thread/1153796ā¦
July 2019. The thread about the de Lestarics and the early history of the Barony of Restalrig and its burgh port of Leith. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1153994ā¦
July 2019. The thread about Brigadier Mackintosh of Borlum, the Jacobite uprising of 1715 in Edinburgh and Leith and the wacky tale of its military incompetence. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1156666ā¦
August 2019. The thread about the sad story of the Highlander mutiny in Leith of 1779 threadreaderapp.com/thread/1157536ā¦
August 2019. The thread about the East Foul Burn and Edinburgh's forgotten, stinking and profitable "irrigated meadows" at Restalrig, Meadowbank and Craigentinny. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1160862ā¦
August 2019. The thread about Leith's first public water supply at Lochend, the "Big Pipes" and why it didn't work. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1166333ā¦
August 2019. The thread about the coming of electricity to Edinburgh and Leith and all the details about it you never knew you needed to know. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1171842ā¦
September 2019. The thread about the islands of the Firth of Forth and how they got their names. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1176464ā¦
October 2019. The thread about the strange, the unusual and the downright weird things advertised for sale in Victortian Edinburgh. Sang's Patent Throstle?! threadreaderapp.com/thread/1188937ā¦
November 2019. The thread about the beautiful, regular, Georgian symmetry of Edinburgh's New Town and why its grid is not quite as regular or as intentionally planned as you might first think. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1192779ā¦
November 2019. The thread about Comiston Springs and Edinburgh's first public water supply. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1192946ā¦
November 2019. The thread about the long lost Edinburgh neighbourhood of Society and the Rectorial War of 1908. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1193830ā¦
November 2019. The thread about Marionville, its place in Georgian Edinburgh and the strange tale of its most eccentric resident. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1194969ā¦
November 2019. The thread about Ann Cunningham, the military strong woman of Covenanting Scotland. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1196531ā¦
November 2019. The thread about the peculiarities and quirks of how Edinburgh used to name its streets, and how its pioneering first postal system gave us our street numbers. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1200028ā¦
November 2019. The tread about hunting for pictures of Cromwell's long lost citadel in Leith. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1200801ā¦
December 2019. The thread about the tragic and farcical "Battle" of May Island, or the night the Royal Navy went to war with itself and lost. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1201817ā¦
December 2019. The thread about John Paul Jones, the Scottish sailor who joined the American War of Independence and came back again intent on sacking Edinburgh and Leith. (And how he gave Leith its Fort) threadreaderapp.com/thread/1204372ā¦
December 2019. The thread about historic breweries in Edinburgh (the city of Beer, Books and Bakeries). threadreaderapp.com/thread/1206984ā¦
December 2019. The thread about a festive A to Z of Edinburgh and Leith placenames. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1209196ā¦
December 2019. The thread about the Edinburgh and Leith themed Twelve Days of Christmas. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1210556ā¦
January 2020. The thread about CERT. Edinburgh's 1990 guided busway network that never was (but actually kind of was) threadreaderapp.com/thread/1221930ā¦
February 2020. The thread about Sciennes, how you pronounce it, how it got its name and everything you never needed to know about it until now. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1224730ā¦
February 2020. The thread about the network of cables and pulleys hidden in your tenement walls, why they were there and how they worked. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1225734ā¦
March 2020. The thread about London Road and why it isn't where it first was and why it's the fault of the North British Railway. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1244920ā¦
August 2020. The thread about Scottish politicians as WW2 British Aircraft. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1297583ā¦
August 2020. The thread about the Canadian Home for Friendless Girls and Margaret Blaikie. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1298294ā¦
August 2020. The thread about AIROHs, ORLITS and BISFs or some of Edinburgh's post-WW2 prefab houses and where you can still find them. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1299347ā¦
August 2020. The thread about the Leith-built ships by Henry Robb in WW2. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1300016ā¦
August 2020. The thread about the back door to Piershill Cavalry Baracks that's been hiding in plain sight for over 100 years. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1300104ā¦
September 2020. The thread about the post-war Royal Navy in Leith and Granton. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1303272ā¦
September 2020. The thread about Leith shipowners and its connection to industrial whaling and "homes for heroes". threadreaderapp.com/thread/1303643ā¦
September 2020. The thread about Leith Fort, how many guns it had and how big they were. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1304338ā¦
September 2020. The thread about one of photo of the Shore at Leith and all the amazing historic details we can scrape from it. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1305625ā¦
September 2020. The thread about the University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area, or how 1960s Edinburgh planned to destroy itself. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1306179ā¦
September 2020. The thread about the Air Ministry's attempt to build a sheep-killing death ray and how it led a Scottish scientist to pioneer radar and radio direction finding. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1307625ā¦
September 2020. The thread about 1980s suburban sprawl in East Edinburgh and how mining history is hiding in plain sight within. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1308134ā¦
September 2020. The thread about the Edinburgh Roperie and Sailcloth Company of Leith. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1308358ā¦
September 2020. The thread about Leith's "Eagle Buildings" and how they got their name and their eagles. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1308679ā¦
September 2020. The thread about the launch of the mail steamer RMS Forth in Leith and how she was wrecked in Mexico only 8 years later. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1308719ā¦
September 2020. The thread about Asa Wass, the enigmatic rags-to-riches rag and bone empire of Edinburgh. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1309947ā¦
September 2020. The thread about the Great Leith Pigeon War of 1958-1961. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1310895ā¦
October 2020. The thread about the history of the German-speaking Laudate church in Edinburgh. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1313772ā¦
October 2020. The thread about old Leith bank notes and the rise and fall and rise again of early banks in Scotland. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1313926ā¦
October 2020. The thread about a postwar chair made in Glasgow and just what it has to do with the early history of helicopters. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1314887ā¦
October 2020. The thread about the Great Michael, 16th century Scotland's delusionally large warship and some Scottish naval history. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1315735ā¦
December 2020. The thread about the industrial and built history of Bonnington and where you can find it in old prints and maps. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1339326ā¦
December 2020. The thread about a Leith beggar's token and when the Scottish state controlled the begging industry. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1340264ā¦
December 2020. The thread about Patrick Miller of Dalswinton; about Leith; a crackpot tycoon; early steamboats; paddle-powered Georgian warships; the King of Sweden; war in the Baltic and the introduction of the neep to Scotland. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1340960ā¦
March 2021. The thread about the Leith Police and what they looked like. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1368181ā¦
March 2021. The thread about the Leith Police and how there's much more to early law and order in Leith than than just dismisseth-ing us. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1368577ā¦
March 2021. The thread about an A - Z of streets name after women in Edinburgh and Leith and some of the people behind those names. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1369023ā¦
March 2021. The thread about Muschet's cairn and why the tragic story behind it should be much better kenned and commemorated. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1370729ā¦
August 2021. The thread about the Clyde Shipping Company and its important place in Irish history. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1425039ā¦
August 2021. The thread about place names and their meanings around Gorgie and Dalry. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1425442ā¦
August 2021. The thread about the giant pulley found under Leith Walk and how it helped the early trams go round. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428361ā¦
October 2021. The thread about Perdrixknowe and its place in fountain pen history. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1450781ā¦
October 2021. The thread about the threads about the history of Edinburgh's sewer networks and why they are a good thing. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1452257ā¦
October 2021. The thread about Leith communion tokens and the rabbit-hole they lead us down about the relentlessly schism-ridden history of Scottish Presbyterian churches. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1454927ā¦
November 2021. The thread about the illustrated history of Gaelic churches in Edinburgh and how they've been around the whole time. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1455647ā¦
November 2021. The thread about a gravestone in Leith and how it leads us to the improbably bizarre story of the bungled attempt to capture Edinburgh Castle for the Jacobites in 1715. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1456227ā¦
November 2021. The thread about Alexander Bain and why he should be as famous as Alexander Graham Bell and John Logie Baird. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1458708ā¦
November 2021. The thread about the fiery loss of the Leith steamship "Brilliant" and the sad loss of her captain, Cawfield Wade. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1459521ā¦
November 2021. The thread about the Dean Village and why it isn't where you think it is; why you've been calling it the wrong thing all this time; and how it tried to start a revolution in Scotland. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1465456ā¦
December 2021. The thread about the first Royal Navy warship built in Leith, her short history and her captains good and not-so-good. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1466170ā¦
December 2021. The thread about Lepers in 16th century Edinburgh and how Leprosy was a death sentence in more than just the obvious way. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1473667ā¦
December 2021. The thread about the other terrible Scottish railway disaster that shares an anniversary with the fall of the First Tay Bridge (part 1). threadreaderapp.com/thread/1475875ā¦
December 2021. The thread about the other terrible Scottish railway disaster that shares an anniversary with the fall of the First Tay Bridge (part 2). threadreaderapp.com/thread/1475894ā¦
December 2021. The thread about Cammo and the slightly unusual history of this slightly unusual house. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1476141ā¦
January 2022. The thread about the building of Early public schools in Edinburgh and how they were being used as a weapon in the city's pioneering war on infectious diseases. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1486818ā¦
February 2022. The thread about an old house in Edinburgh and some of its history and occupants. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1489232ā¦
February 2022. The thread about how school design was mobilised in the Scottish state's war on left-handedness and Victorian NIMBYism in Morningside. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1490312ā¦
February 2022. The thread about how on of Ireland's most legendary ballads was written by a Scottosh gas-meter collector from Abbeyhill threadreaderapp.com/thread/1490806ā¦
February 2022. The thread about the building of the Regent Road and how the usually infallible Robert Stevenson got it a little bit wrong. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1493000ā¦
February 2022. The thread about the Ukrainian Church in Leith and a little of the history of its congregation. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1497999ā¦
March 2021. The thread about the Austrian Jewish refugee who made Edinburgh his home and came to design modern industrial Scotland (and the best bookcase you will probably never own). threadreaderapp.com/thread/1505494ā¦
April 2022. The thread about Auch-ward placenames in lowland Scotland. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1514169ā¦
April 2022. The thread about the Clydebank aviation industry that ended before it really got going and the ridiculous German planes that it built. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1515081ā¦
April 2022. The thread about how a shipyard and streets in Finland got a Scottish name and what it's got to do with Leith. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1518711ā¦
April 2022. The thread about Redhall House, its place in history and some of its more famous residents. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1519635ā¦
May 2022. The thread about how Edinburgh school planners got it wrong with new Boroughmuir Schools. Twice. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1528710ā¦
May 2022. The thread about the woman who was Scotland's first cookery teacher, wrote its first cook books and who introduced us to haggis. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1528850ā¦
May 2022. The thread about the "Witches Tree" and how it ended up as a mirror in London. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1531573ā¦
June 2022. The thread about the Scottish industrialist, the Spanish aristocrat, the sleepy Ayrshire village and their place in numerous pioneering moments in aviation history. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1534103ā¦
July 2022. The thread about the Sciennes school strike, the women who stood up to the School Board and rampant anti-Catholicism in 1920s Edinburgh. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1542991ā¦
July 2022. The thread about Scapa Flow, the scuttling of the German fleet, its incredible salvage and how it very nearly brought the Forth Bridge down while the cameras were recording. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1550936ā¦
July 2022. The thread about the curious history and politics of Plain Breid. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1553062ā¦
August 2022. The thread about the delicious and crunchy history of the Macaroni Pie and how people have been consuming macaroni in Scotland for much longer than you think. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1554501ā¦
August 2022. The thread about the greasy history of the Lorne Sausage, which doesn't come from Lorne; or the Square Sausage, which isn't square. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1557372ā¦
August 2022. The the thread about the Zeppelin air raid on Edinburgh and Leith of 1916. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1560785ā¦
August 2019. The thread about the Leith steam coaches and the early history in steam-powered road vehicles
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1162129362981924869?s=20&t=VtL1baR0vuB10DqF4rIbwA
March 2022. The thread about the Balfour of Pilrig and Pilrig House.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1508412138079064065
March 2019. The thread about how Leith nearly got its very own High Line 30 years before New York
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1102151615904124930
April 2022. The thread about the WW2 Blitz on Leith
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1512035811167981575
September 2021. The thread about the WW2 air defences of Edinburgh.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1434978252628635648
November 2021. The thread about the 600 year evolution of the boundaries of Edinburgh, Leith, the Canongate and some baronies and burghs you may not be so familiar with.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1461138546660622337
September 2021. The thread about the Bawbie
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1437366801562750979
October 2020. The thread about the Edinburgh Mint and what it's got to do with Adam Smith and Victorian philanthropy
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1319261943295860736
October 2020. The thread about the Ferranti factory in Pilton and its important place in aviation history.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1313038538259169280
September 2020. The thread about Conder Tokens and when Scottish municipalities minted their own unofficial money.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1309083784181153794
March 2021. The thread about Morningside placenames and their biblical and Gypsy roots.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1366810266193850378
November 2020. The thread about Mr Henry Binko and Edinburgh's first (but brief) electric railway.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1327323534801113097
November 2020. The thread about the 1846 scheme for an underground, vacuum-powered railway network from Edinburgh to Leith.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1331936262442389508
January 2018. The tread about Edinburgh's first electric tram and the "Battle of South Clerk Street"
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/955550810187984896
November 2019. The thread about 16th century Scottish weapons, some less terrifying and effective than others.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1190269072614842369?s=20&t=VtL1baR0vuB10DqF4rIbwA
November 2021. The thread about the "Three As" of Scottish motor manufacturing
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1458366356592680963?t=QHqVZxSQUfufXJlVAELQkQ&s=19
November 2020. The thread about Edinburgh's last trams and the politicians who set out to destroy the system.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1328298258352001032?t=uU99qHlWxLlpPoioFUJlBw&s=19
December 2021. The thread about a historical tour of the Leith shoreline in old photos and paintings.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1476897182187986946?t=J5SLv2gk_kNlGp7kIeVDww&s=19
June 2019. The thread about the Leith Martello tower and why it was never really finished
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1138459355639099395?t=LhZNIvNsM4e5-BvPdKKrWw&s=19
October 2020. The thread about what workers looked like in oldentimes Edinburgh
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1317044384999870465?t=fsTBHuDnw6w0iI4UeRgHRA&s=19
December 2020. The thread about Leith's 18th Century naval yard and what it might have looked like
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1335607691109085186?t=FKYaT4ui37GO-xifQ3_31g&s=19
September 2021. The thread about a 17th century map of Leith, what the place looked like then and the time King Charles II's saucy royal yacht came to town
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1437716386118258694?t=OgyhFZMdpEOuwsh6qMYhww&s=19
December 2021. The thread about Old Leith as seen through the eyes of Paul Sandby
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1470703340766089216?t=QDrHBfZByJTe0aURN1hZNw&s=19
October 2020. The thread about a tour of 1750 Edinburgh, as seen by Paul Sandby
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1317756610740211712?t=QDrHBfZByJTe0aURN1hZNw&s=19
November 2019. The thread about the changing face of the Tron Kirk and what a Tron even is
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1196407448439013378?t=oc-nJqeYqQqIa0Ze2RXCtg&s=19
August 2019. The thread about 1750s Edinburgh and Leith as seen and surveyed by William "Great Map" Roy
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1159795570179026944?t=RxRfyUdNXbXoHgZ793XsEw&s=19
January 2021. The thread about the sad end of young Thomas Aikenhead, the last person executed for blasphemy in the British Isles
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1347507655632416769?t=CiQen9EzkNItvU8WhDS-MQ&s=19
November 2020. The thread about when Leith Walk tram works dug up bits of a 130 year old public transport system and how it would have worked
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1331549419817365504?t=WmeCBVdflO_-6cFJWRdvyQ&s=19
February 2021. The thread about a brief history of Portobello, the town that clay built.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1363609246764589059?t=zkFR2JtF9ZYInIi8m9LshA&s=19
May 2022. The thread about early church-going in Newhaven and how the "free fisher folk" defied the Kirk and provided for their own poor
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1525393301981089792?t=vTxExyloCrojFoWODzap-w&s=19
October 2021. The thread about Bread Street, how it did (or didn't) get its name and why it has a legendary status with a certain generation of Edinburgh folk
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1446145203472056323?t=vTxExyloCrojFoWODzap-w&s=19
June 2022. The thread about Rosemount, how it got its name, and its pioneering model workers housing
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1538806738232782848?t=P3nRRpdw5drONJ9ZLk_Eww&s=19
February 2021. The thread about a Portobello bus garage and when it went to war building landing craft
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1448720314213584897?t=THioZMrSVL2jg2PWGwsTRQ&s=19
August 2018. The thread about a tour of long gone Edinburgh, Leith & Portobello cinemas, illustrated with #NowAndThen photos
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1031660149407186944?t=aeIhjnaeS8d-xdfMs6QiHQ&s=19
November 2019. The thread about when 1965 Edinburgh wanted to fill the suburbs with dual carriageways
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1198584355326775296?t=MZbHxDnsaWMjH8CUKnlg8g&s=19
May 2022. The tread about Neil McVicar, the Gaelic-speaking 18th century minister in Edinburgh who suffered no fools and knew no fear
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1529015681366503424?s=20&t=YxzRJnqDEpHBNIpMRr0onw
May 2022. The thread about The Disruption; when much Scotland literally got up, walked out of the established Kirk and formed their own; why they ended up building a great floating church and just why this has anything to do with the history of photography
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1527021007231668224?s=20&t=HQiwpfb3Z36el4_ZUi_Y2w
March 2020. The thread about the time the great Covenanter general Alexander Leslie captured Edinburgh castle and wasn't hoist with his own petard in the process.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1236988807838339073?s=20&t=HQiwpfb3Z36el4_ZUi_Y2w
August 2019. The thread about Edinburgh Corporation Tramways A-to-Z of Zoo animals advertising campaign
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1164818080507158529?s=20&t=hidTETsHAvH8XxMO2eKRUg
June 2019. The thread about the time the French ran Leith and banned speaking ill of Frenchmen and then the time the English ran Leith and had to ban the garrison from marrying Leith lasses.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1140555058037362688
Janurary 2019. The thread about the failed 20 year battle to fill in Lochend loch.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1088126201095471106
June 2021. The thread about the burning of the Granton trawler "Netta Croan" and the heroic rescue of her crew.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1409442030221148163?s=20&t=sTbSYoKGMKsHwPfZpo-lEQ
March 2022. The thread about Junction Road Church in Leith.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1504122219559112711
August 2022. The thread about Creamola foam, a pleasant tasting chemical concoction with an unpleasant tasting beginning. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1562920ā¦
November 2019. The thread about the Leith Turkish baths.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1197811044372140032?s=20&t=DGboUKWlGdmgP4aXcQLUIw
January 2022. The thread about Darling's, Edinburgh's premier outfitter for the discerning lady around town, and it's political proprietor William Young Darling, great uncle to Baron Darling of Roulanish
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1478103373819912195?t=3w7WkA1FbaaOTu_LpzhQnw&s=19
August 2022. The thread about the Canon Mill on Canon Street in Canonmills where the Canongate did its milling. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1563613ā¦
May 2021. The thread about what the "MD" in central belt favourite "MD2020" actually means and its somewhat surprising connection to Judaism.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1396032134758998016?s=20&t=zN2bwknKHGRX-J1vqSmz0w
May 2019. The thread of a tour of long-gone Edinburgh and Leith railway stations in #NowAndThen photo montages / transitions.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1130429082330705920?s=20&t=czyRg95UY0mQLgHpt7KHcQ
June 2020. The thread about Edinburgh's "Victoria station" that you probably never knew was there. (And bits still are).
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1277366598345658368?s=20&t=ir44M34t6O77KXvt9fKIsw
March 2022. The thread about the real school in Edinburgh behind the name of the world's worst school
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1509502635279278080?t=S29eR0kZLSlUzm5sW6NW7g&s=19
May 2022. The thread about a brief history of early vegetarianism in Edinburgh and its links to the women's suffrage movement
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1526502160225157120?t=cAFUujJT3NHHxwSY3E9jMQ&s=19
December 2021. The thread about the Scottish term "Jakey", it's frequently fatal nature and its distant roots in the depression-era US
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1471851814437937164?t=1Qg8kjlKd5_uoglBKzkglg&s=19
September 2022. The thread about the occasionally violent and frequently gruesome history of the Quarryholes threadreaderapp.com/thread/1567637ā¦
September 2022. The thread about why there isn't actually a street called The Royal Mile. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1569081ā¦
June 2022. The thread about the Youngers, the McEwan's and how they came together to utterly dominate Scottish brewing for the best part of 80 years.
https://twitter.com/cocteautriplets/status/1537372992069582848
September 2022. The thread about Jocks Lodge and who "Jock" and "Piers" were (or weren't). threadreaderapp.com/thread/1570721ā¦
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