by admin | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Many buildings in Edinburgh bear the name ‘toll.’ In 1713 the main trunk roads into the city were turnpiked. This essentially means that a tollhouse was erected to collect a passageway toll, which in turn was used to pay for the upkeep of the road. A Turnpike Trust...
by admin | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Sir Walter Scott was a popular poet and writer in his own time. He passed on 21 September 1832 and in the same year, the great and the good of the city agreed that they wished to commemorate his life with memorial. The city held a competition to design a monument to...
by admin | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Edinburgh is famed for its spooky past, accounted for by its rich and tumultuous history. Here is a selection of the more famous ghost tales. The Ghostly Piper of Edinburgh Castle, Castle RockIn the late eighteenth century during the French Revolutionary Wars, work...
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Holyroodhouse PalaceQueen Mary resided at Holyroodhouse Palace between 1561 and 1567. Her private chambers comprised a bedchamber, a supper room, and an outer chamber; all accessible to visitors in the north-west tower. She married her second husband, Henry Stuart,...
by admin | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
The author Joanne Rowling wrote the Harry Potter series of seven books while living in Edinburgh. It is possible to visit some of the cafés where she would sit and write. Although none of the films were filmed in Edinburgh, Rowling has confirmed that the inspiration...
