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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵

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Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 20d

🗓️ Seeing as we're into the local history societies' talks season, I blew the dust off the Threadinburgh dot Scot events calendar to put my various offerings there.
🤦‍♂️Somehow I've managed a complete diary car crash of 3 talks in 10 days at the end of this month! threadinburgh.scot/events-calen...

Threadinburgh Talks Calendar

Writing about local history inevitably leads to one being invited to talk about local history and I’m fortunate (and always more than a little honour) that local interest and heritage groups …

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 7h

Just wait until it rains for the first time. Fortunately it rarely does round these parts at this time of year

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CSbungo @csbungo.bsky.social · 8h

Helpfully I explained to some pointing tourists that Glaswegians had much longer legs back in the day

Mackintosh house up at Glasgow Uni. The front door is several feet off the ground with access being via the adjoining Hunterian

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 7h

Call me old-fashioned if you will, but I think I preferred Queensferry before it was made out of paper.

The City of Edinburgh Council @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social · 1d

We've began work on our £3.5m transformation project of Queensferry High Street and the town centre.

These improvements will create a safer, more accessible, and vibrant environment for residents, visitors, and businesses alike.

Digital visualisation of the project improvements.

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Edinburgh Journal of Botany @ejbotany.bsky.social · 8h

Marking 125 years of #EJBotany #OpenAccess and its forerunner, Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, we are delighted to announce that ALL content is now freely available at journals.rbge.org.uk/notes and journals.rbge.org.uk/ejb

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 8h

I'm sure there's parts of Glasgow where it would go down equally similar to Stockbridge. Should try some central belt town like Harthill or Stoneybridge for a real litmus test!

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 18h

a close up of a cartoon character with a very angry face and a tie .

ALT: a close up of a cartoon character with a very angry face and a tie .

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 18h

I realise there will be a queue of dweebs 3 hours deep at this joint come opening day who don't realise - or don't want to know - that you can get a better roll at Bayne's for a quarter of the price

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 19h

Can honestly say I've never wished a business more ill will than I have than with a "viral London morning roll pop-up" seeking to introduce morning rolls to Scotland via the medium of Stockbridge.
Fuck off all the way back to Angel and don't stop until you find yourselves in the sea.

Edinburgh Evening News headline "Auld Hag: Viral London shop selling Scottish produce announces first Edinburgh pop-up in Stockbridge"

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 2d

Today is #worldarchitectureday. Scotland's ecclesiastical architecture continues to inspire and evolve over time.

Celebrate with us as an organisation whose aim is to sustain Scotland's rich heritage of places of worship.

Become a Friend of SCT👇

www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/become-a-fri...

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 1d

Probable money pit

Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 1d

The attic/upstairs is original I think given the feature maid of the stairway ceiling and stained glass. My understanding is a bungalow can have an upper floor so long as it's within the roof space like this - and still be a bungalow - it doesn't all need to be on one floor.

Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 1d

Think how many period dramas and Agatha Christie whodunnits we could film here!

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 1d

Good morning, please enjoy this beautiful Arts & Crafts style cottage interior. search.savills.com/property-det...

Estate agent's photo. Interior of an Arts & Crafts style bungalow, parlour in a largely original condition

Estate agent's photo. Interior of an Arts & Crafts style bungalow, dining room in a largely original condition

Estate agent's photo. Interior of an Arts & Crafts style bungalow, drawing room in a largely original condition

Estate agent's photo. Interior of an Arts & Crafts style bungalow, stairwell in a largely original condition

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 1d

Cockburn a perfectly normal Scottish street name. Never understood the (mainly American )sniggering around this one either.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 1d

If, Fly ➡️ Flew.
Then, Flow ➡️ Floew.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 1d

I sneak it into daily life to see if anyone notices

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Edinburgh O'Clock @edinburghclock.bsky.social · 1d

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.

A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin

@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.

Please repost with your own caption.

Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 1d

Hi you ➡️ Hiya
Bye you ➡️ Biya

Why also isn't the second one right?

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 2d

That's in no way terrifying.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 2d

Actually web headline says "with Queen paying tribute"

a man is singing into a microphone while wearing a shirt that says queen

ALT: a man is singing into a microphone while wearing a shirt that says queen

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 3d

I'm aware of such a thing but in my case only extends to exchange of Edinburgh and Scottish history books. I'm more than sure it exists for other niche and regional interests though!

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Cllr Jack Caldwell 🇺🇦 @jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social · 4d

Genuinely UNBELIEVABLE...

Delivering a letter launching my pedestrian safety petition on the junction of Easter Road & Dalmeny Street / St Clair Street, & emerge out a stairwell to another crash.

Spoke to Police & everyone ok but shaken up.

This can't keep happening.

An out of focus letter and a collision on a street corner.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 3d

My dad has turned up this photo from a visit "many years ago" to the Forth Bridge. I think it's taken from what he calls the howff, just below track level, used by the maintenance workers.

I guess when you're engaged in a proverbially endless task, you need a wee cup of tea once in a while.

Black and white photo showing a kettle on the sill of a very dirty window. Immediately outside the window is the very recognisable steelwork of the Forth Bridge.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 4d

Paging @ncdominie.bsky.social

Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 4d

Yikes! Is that a yacht blown ashore?

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