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Hope you enjoyed your trip to the Athens of the North and a Happy New Year to you
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DG. If instead of walking straight across the junction onto Waterloo Place (A1), you turned down Leith St (B900)then right along London Rd (B91350) you could have dropped into my flat for a cup of tea! This was the original main road to London before the bridge you described was built in 1819 and called the Regent Bridge after George IV.
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These Edinburgh blogs remind me of four years I spent in Edinburgh as a child (1963 - 67). Hated my school - only English boy in the class and persecuted for it by the form master. It was a supposedly posh school up near the castle. George Herriotts if I remember correctly. The pictures bring back better memories. Even as a 9 - 13 year old I was impressed by the architecture and views. I really must go back having not returned since moving away. Also remember getting the bus in to school & upstairs had a lowered walkway and you stepped up to the seat. I think they were like that so the roof was lower in order to get under some of the bridges. It was the route in from Balerno if there are any bus experts interested in this sort of thing. |
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Apparently, according to Wikipedia, the signs at the Edinburgh end of the A1 once read 'London and the South', as opposed to Berwick-upon-Tweed as they do now. |
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Leith - isn't that the place where the police are getting rid of somebody? |
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The first mile ? Surely you mean the last mile ? I mean us Londoners are supposed to see London as the centre of the universe and relate everything else to London. |
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great pics. new camera? I like to think that my holiday in Edinburgh in September last year inspired your trip but knowing you it was probably planned at least 2 years ago. |
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Can't find much more info online but the glorious Lucinda Lambton did a programme on the Great North Road as well;
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The "ornate bridge" just after the start of the A1 famously appeared just after the start of the film "Trainspotting": Ewan McGregor's character runs underneath it and then almost gets hit by a car.
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