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Problèmes à Gogo: the thread about the Bonnington Bridge Bar

1d ago·1 min read·123 words

Educating Newhaven: the thread about the Victoria and other Schools

Apr 15·1 min read·149 words

Dead CERT: the thread about Edinburgh’s disastrous dalliances with guided busways

Apr 1·1 min read·153 words

You Can’t Fight City Hall! The thread about Lothian Road Public School

Mar 24·1 min read·152 words

A multi-storey problem story: the thread about the Castle Terrace Car Park

Mar 19·1 min read·142 words

Jimmy’s: the thread about the school on St Leonard’s Crag

Feb 25·1 min read·114 words

Milliner, Haberdasher, Caricature: the thread about Sibbie Hutton, the “Most Fantastic Lady of Her Day”

Feb 21·1 min read·106 words

The thread about William McGonagall’s elegy to “The Ancient Town of Leith”; “Indifference to Practically Everything But Rhyme”

Feb 19·1 min read·140 words

The thread about St Leonard’s Public School; ninety years of remarkably unremarkable service

Feb 10·1 min read·92 words