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Leith Walk

Leith Walk

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Sep 30, 2026

Paul KirbyHOST
22:02
It is, but it's funny because I make no matter to anybody else, but I'm now like down the wormhole.
Paul KirbyHOST
22:10
So I lived at the bottom of Leith Walk on the crossroads there.
Paul KirbyHOST
22:14
I was in the third floor flat and I looked out over the, you know, the people in the lower flats.
Paul KirbyHOST
22:20
Anyway, but...
Ruth GrayHOST
16:30
They're kind of sought after.
Ruth GrayHOST
16:32
You've got Stories, which I think is on Leith Walk.
Ruth GrayHOST
16:36
And then there's one, I think it's Mason's down in New Haven.
Ruth GrayHOST
16:38
Yeah.
John HagedornHOST
4:51
I was born on May 22nd, 1859, at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, so named because in old days a colony of French Huguenots had settled there.
John HagedornHOST
5:00
At the time of their coming, it was a village outside the city walls, but now it is at the end of Queen Street, abutting upon Leith Walk.
John HagedornHOST
5:09
When last I had visited it, it seems to have degenerated, but at that time the flats were of good repute.
John HagedornHOST
5:15
My father was the youngest son of John Doyle, who under the nom de crayon of HB made a great reputation in London from about 1825 to 1850.

Unknown podcast

George IV’s Kilted Coronation of Scottish Identity

Sep 13 · 1 Mention

speaker_1UNKNOWN
2:32
On the morning of the King's arrival, the streets of Edinburgh were lined with banners and flags, each bearing a tartan that matched the clans represented there.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
2:42
The procession went along Leith Walk, the gateway into the city from the harbor.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
2:48
When the royal barge turned to land at Calton Hill, the King stepped onto shore wearing the Royal Stuart tartan, an exclusive design of satin and velvet made by a local manufacturer to signify that even royalty now had accepted Highland dress as respectable attire.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
3:06
The choice of the Royal Stuart tartan is interesting.

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