
Leith Walk
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Sep 30, 2026
185: Bob Murphy | Scottish Power
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22:02Paul KirbyHOST
It is, but it's funny because I make no matter to anybody else, but I'm now like down the wormhole.
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22:10Paul KirbyHOST
So I lived at the bottom of Leith Walk on the crossroads there.
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22:14Paul KirbyHOST
I was in the third floor flat and I looked out over the, you know, the people in the lower flats.
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22:20Paul KirbyHOST
Anyway, but...
EP5 the Scottish morning roll
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16:30Ruth GrayHOST
They're kind of sought after.
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16:32Ruth GrayHOST
You've got Stories, which I think is on Leith Walk.
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16:36Ruth GrayHOST
And then there's one, I think it's Mason's down in New Haven.
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16:38Ruth GrayHOST
Yeah.
EARLY RECOLLECTIONS by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (FROM MEMORIES & ADVENTURES)
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4:51John HagedornHOST
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.
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5:00John HagedornHOST
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.
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5:09John HagedornHOST
When last I had visited it, it seems to have degenerated, but at that time the flats were of good repute.
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5:15John HagedornHOST
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.
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George IV’s Kilted Coronation of Scottish Identity
Sep 13 · 1 Mention
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2:32speaker_1UNKNOWN
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.
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2:42speaker_1UNKNOWN
The procession went along Leith Walk, the gateway into the city from the harbor.
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2:48speaker_1UNKNOWN
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.
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3:06speaker_1UNKNOWN
The choice of the Royal Stuart tartan is interesting.