Recent work to restore the exterior basement stonework of 19 Hart Street has revealed traces of an old shop frontage.

On the Broughton Place elevation it reads, ‘CONFECTIONS—M.T. SCOTT—CIGARETTES’. Round the corner on Hart Street, we think we can decipher a palimpsest of ‘GROCERIES’ and ‘CONFECTIONER’.

To discover more about the place’s history, Spurtle embarked on a tumultuous rummage through censuses, statutory registers, valuation rolls, Post Office directories and local newspapers. Here’s what we found.

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

For the last 10 years, Spurtle has been photographing the street-name signs of Spurtleshire.

The aim has been to record their variety of design, aesthetic appeal, interesting history, and the effects of time and human interaction.

Today, we concentrate on the haunting presence of Spurtleshire street names long since passed away.

EDINBURGH DRINKING CLUBS.

POLICE START NEW CAMPAIGN.

A new phase in the drinking club question as regards Edinburgh has been entered upon.[1] As has been stated, the decisions on the subject in the High Court of Justiciary led to a great revival of those institutions in the city, but the assumption held by those who are running them that the decisions guard them effectively against any further attack is apparently not shared by the police, who, with almost startling suddenness, have aga

BATHGATE MAN’S ADVENTURES IN EDINBURGH.

FALLEN AMONG THIEVES.

Before Bailie Waterston, Edinburgh City Police Court, to-day, a young, smart-looking fellow named Percy Roberts, and Vera Watson or Roberts, both residing in Northumberland Place, and Jeanie Morrison, residing in Cumberland Street, Edinburgh, were charged with having, on 2d inst., in the house in Northumberland Place occupied by Roberts, stolen a gold watch from an ironfounder residing in Bathgate.

Edinburgh Labourer’s Divorce Case.

Lord Pearson heard evidence to-day in an action of divorce by Robert Ewing, labourer, 10 Rossie Place, Edinburgh, against his wife, Elizabeth Culbard or Ewing, 32 Greenside Row, Edinburgh. The pursuer (34), stated that the defender’s father was his cousin, and he was married on 2d May 1900 by declaration.

The photograph shown here of a ‘winter angel’, posted on Twitter at the weekend, prompted some interest among readers.

W A V E R L E Y   M A R K E T,

PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH.

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H. E. MOSS

Has much pleasure submitting the following List of

SPECIALITIES AND NOVELTIES

for his

TWENTY-SECOND CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR

C A R N I V A L,

COMMENCING ON