Edinburgh Curiosities Thomson James U.Paperback / softback
Edinburgh Curiosities Thomson James U.Paperback / softback When did thousands of people last crowd into Edinburgh's High Street to witness an execution? As a fire engine roars along the road sirens…
Specifikacia Edinburgh Curiosities Thomson James U.Paperback / softback
Edinburgh Curiosities Thomson James U.Paperback / softback
When did thousands of people last crowd into Edinburgh's High Street to witness an execution? As a fire engine roars along the road sirens blaring and lights flashing, what has that got to do with a fire of 1824? Three brass bricks on the pavement mark the spot, but how many people notice them or know what they mean?
Thomson and Coghill have trawled through the city's characters to bring together a collection of the men and women who scandalised and inspired the city over the years. Why was Leith in mourning one bleak day in 1915 and where can you find a monument which commemorates the tragic event?The answers are all in an expanded and revised edition of Edinburgh Curiosities. But in addition to the notorious, like the Porteous Riot, Deacon William Brodie - the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde - or Madeleine Smith, they look at other lesser known, but