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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,city centre,Scotland,luxury hotel,Edinburgh,EH2 2EQ,Edinburgh city centre,United Kingdom,landmark hotel,clock tower,Victorian architecture,historic building,sandstone facade,tourism,winter,winter sunlight,blue sky,Edinburgh tourism,Scotland travel,luxury travel,iconic hotels,heritage architecture,city centre hotels,wedding and events venue,business travel,destination marketing,architectural photography,editorial background,historic landmarks,winter city photography,Princes Street Edinburgh,Old Town meets New Town,Waverley area,cityscape,architectural detail,grand facade,West Register Place,urban travel city break heritage tourism high end hospitality Scottish
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3DM994Y - A wide, documentary street-level view of The Balmoral Hotel on Princes Street in Edinburgh, photographed from the West Register Place area to frame the full façade and the famous clock tower. The building's grand sandstone frontage, ornate roofline and central tower create an unmistakable city landmark, with the clock face clearly visible high above the main elevation. The perspective between surrounding city-centre buildings helps emphasise the Balmoral's scale and its position at one of Edinburgh's most recognisable gateways between the New Town and the Old Town.
The light suggests a cold-season day with clear winter brightness: pale blue sky, crisp edges on the stonework, and cool shadows that bring out carved details across the façade. The overall mood is calm and architectural rather than crowd-focused, making the image highly versatile for editorial use where a clean, identifiable Edinburgh location is needed.
This photograph suits themes including Edinburgh tourism, luxury and heritage hospitality, iconic Scottish architecture, and city-break travel. It also works as a strong general illustration for Princes Street and central Edinburgh, with the clock tower acting as an instantly readable visual cue for the Balmoral and the wider city centre.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,city centre,Scotland,Calton Hill,Edinburgh,EH7 5AA,United Kingdom,landmark,heritage site,stone building,tourist attraction,winter,winter sunshine,blue sky,travel,EH7,Edinburgh tourism,Scotland travel,heritage tourism,historic architecture,neoclassical landmark,Enlightenment Edinburgh,science history,visitor attraction,destination marketing,editorial background,European city break,winter city photography,iconic Edinburgh landmarks,William Henry Playfair,Edinburgh city skyline viewpoint,hilltop monument,astronomy,science heritage,historic Edinburgh,New Town Edinburgh,city break,history
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3DM9966 - A crisp winter view of the Playfair Monument and the observatory dome at the City Observatory complex on Calton Hill in Edinburgh. The building is presented as a bold neoclassical composition: heavy stone blocks, a temple-like form, and rows of classical columns supporting a pediment on each end. Behind and between the two porticoes, the pale observatory dome rises above the roofline, giving a clear visual link to astronomy and scientific heritage. The sky is a deep, clean blue with bright cold-season light that sharpens the edges of the stonework and makes the architecture feel monumental and timeless.
The foreground includes rough winter vegetation and low grasses, which helps communicate the hilltop setting and the feel of an open public park rather than a busy street location. The overall atmosphere suggests a dry, cold day with excellent visibility, the kind of weather that draws visitors up Calton Hill for panoramic views and landmark photography. The image has strong editorial value because it captures an instantly recognisable Edinburgh heritage site, while remaining uncluttered by crowds.
This photograph suits themes such as Edinburgh tourism, Scotland travel, neoclassical architecture, historic observatories, and the city's long association with science and the Enlightenment. It also works well as a general location illustration for Calton Hill, conservation, and heritage-led destination marketing, particularly for winter city-break coverage where clear skies and crisp light are part of the story.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,EH1,Scottish treat,novelty food,tourist food,Edinburgh,Edinburgh Scotland,Cafe Piccante,Broughton Street,takeaway,carry out,chip shop,fast food,street food,dessert,sweet treat,batter,fried dessert,window sign,shop window,evening,night,nightlife,New Town,EH1 3JU,chocolate,bar,bars,unhealthy,diet,Edinburgh city centre,Scottish cuisine,tourist attraction food,food culture,street photography,night photography,neon typography,late evening economy
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3DYWT2B - A brightly lit window display at Café Piccante on Broughton Street in Edinburgh, photographed in the evening, promotes the famously indulgent Scottish takeaway treat Deep Fried Mars Bar. The purple and white poster sits behind glass beneath a glowing neon sign reading Pizza & Kebabs, with illuminated menu boards and a stainless steel counter visible inside the shop. The scene captures the classic look of a late night chip shop and carry out in Scotland, where fast food, comfort food and after hours snacks are part of the city's street life.
Deep fried confectionery has become a widely recognised curiosity for visitors, and the Mars bar version is often treated as a humorous must try by tourists exploring Edinburgh's New Town, the city centre and the pub and club circuit. In practical terms it is a simple idea executed with showmanship: a chocolate bar is battered, deep fried until the outside is crisp, then served hot so the filling becomes soft and gooey. That contrast of crunchy batter and molten sweet centre is exactly what the sign is selling, along with the wider promise of quick, filling food for people on the move.
Editorially, the photograph works as a visual shorthand for Scottish food culture, travel and tourism, British fast food, and the late evening economy. It also speaks to how takeaway shops use bold typography, saturated colours, and bright lighting to cut through the dark and attract passing trade, especially when street footfall is driven by nightlife and late trains. The reflections on the glass and the warm interior lighting add atmosphere and a documentary feel, showing a real working premises rather than a staged studio shot. The image can illustrate stories about Edinburgh city breaks, independent local businesses, menu culture, neon signage, snack foods, guilty pleasure desserts, and the marketing of regional specialities and novelty food to visitors. It is also a strong night street photography detail for editorial use.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E6T4DT - Close view of an illuminated Deep Fried Mars Bar sign in the window of Cafe Piccante in Edinburgh, Scotland, presenting one of the most widely recognised and often stereotyped novelty foods associated with Scottish takeaway culture. The bright purple display, bold white lettering and visible Mars bar wrapper create an eye-catching editorial image that works strongly for themes of unhealthy eating, junk food, fried food culture, sugar and fat consumption, takeaway habits and wider public health debate. Photographed in an urban takeaway setting on Broughton Street, the picture is useful for features about diet, obesity, cardiovascular risk, food marketing, culinary stereotypes, tourism curiosity and the way particular foods become symbolic of a place, fairly or unfairly. It also lends itself to commentary on Scotland's long-running health inequalities, though the image should be read as an illustration of food culture and debate rather than proof of any direct causal link between one novelty item and population-level outcomes. That distinction matters, because lazy stereotypes about Scotland and poor diet can drift into caricature. Even so, the sign remains a strong visual shorthand for conversations about indulgence, processed food, late-night takeaway habits, cheap calories and the public tension between humour, local identity and serious health concerns. The composition has clear value for newspapers, magazines, blogs and current affairs coverage exploring nutrition, class, urban food retail, fast food environments, public policy, prevention campaigns and the commercial use of novelty products to attract custom. It is also commercially useful as a documentary image of a real Edinburgh takeaway display, with branding and place-specific context intact. Suitable subjects include deep fried food, Scottish takeaway culture, unhealthy eating concepts, food and health policy, street-level retail, neon signage, Edinburgh city life and the politics of how national food iden
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2X9BP8N - A modern Lothian single-decker bus operating on route 30 to Clovenstone is pictured travelling through Edinburgh city centre along Princes Street, Scotland. The maroon-and-cream bus displays the destination Clovenstone on its electronic front sign and carries the vehicle registration SJ70 HPC.
Lothian Buses is the main public transport operator in Edinburgh and is widely regarded for its high service frequency and modern fleet. Route 30 connects residential areas such as Clovenstone with key destinations across the city, including the central shopping and business districts.
Princes Street forms the backbone of Edinburgh's city-centre transport network, running parallel to the historic Old Town and offering views towards Edinburgh Castle. The image captures everyday urban life in Scotland's capital, with public transport playing a central role in sustainable city mobility.
This photograph is suitable for editorial use illustrating public transport in Edinburgh, Scottish urban life, city bus networks, sustainable travel, commuter services, and modern transport infrastructure in UK capital cities.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RE0XA8 -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Scotland,Edinburgh,EH6,EH6 6AW,St Marys Star Of The Sea,churches,sign,historic,gothic,style,architects,EW,E.W.,Pugin,and,Joseph Hansom,the,Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate,Missionary Oblates,of,Mary,Immaculate,patron saint,front,mass,masses,religion,RC,Roman Catholic,Roman Catholics,outside,exterior,building,architecture
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RE0XAD - St Mary Star of the Sea (Leith) Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is situated on Constitution Street in the Leith district and staffed by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
The church was designed in 1854 by the architects E.W. Pugin and Joseph Hansom in the Gothic style. It is a Category B listed building. The Church has over 20 stained glass windows, and one of the side altars is dedicated to Mary Star of the Sea, the patron saint of Leith since the 12th Century
Archaeology and History
Archaeological work carried out in advance of the construction of a new church hall in 2004 found the remains of the front of Balmerino House. That house was built in 1631 by John Stewart, Earl of Carrick, and sold to Lord Balmerino in 1643. It remained in the Balmerio family until 1746 when the fifth Lord Balmerino died and then the Sixth Lord was executed for his part in the failed Jacobite rebellion. The house then changed hands several time until the Church purchased it in 1848. St Mary's Star of the Sea was built in 1853 and Balmerino House was finally demolished in the 1970s. There is some conflict over the date it was built - the church website says it was designed in 1854 but the historical records in Canmore state that it was opened in 1854
From 2017 the many parishes in Edinburgh have been organised into clusters to better coordinate their resources. St. Mary's is one of four parishes in Cluster 5 along with Holy Cross, St. Margaret Mary's and St. Margaret (DM).
The parish is part of the Oblate Centre of Mission Edinburgh which also includes St John Olgilvie's Church in Wester Hailes and the priests of both parishes.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RE0XAK - St Mary Star of the Sea (Leith) Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is situated on Constitution Street in the Leith district and staffed by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
The church was designed in 1854 by the architects E.W. Pugin and Joseph Hansom in the Gothic style. It is a Category B listed building. The Church has over 20 stained glass windows, and one of the side altars is dedicated to Mary Star of the Sea, the patron saint of Leith since the 12th Century
Archaeology and History
Archaeological work carried out in advance of the construction of a new church hall in 2004 found the remains of the front of Balmerino House. That house was built in 1631 by John Stewart, Earl of Carrick, and sold to Lord Balmerino in 1643. It remained in the Balmerio family until 1746 when the fifth Lord Balmerino died and then the Sixth Lord was executed for his part in the failed Jacobite rebellion. The house then changed hands several time until the Church purchased it in 1848. St Mary's Star of the Sea was built in 1853 and Balmerino House was finally demolished in the 1970s. There is some conflict over the date it was built - the church website says it was designed in 1854 but the historical records in Canmore state that it was opened in 1854
From 2017 the many parishes in Edinburgh have been organised into clusters to better coordinate their resources. St. Mary's is one of four parishes in Cluster 5 along with Holy Cross, St. Margaret Mary's and St. Margaret (DM).
The parish is part of the Oblate Centre of Mission Edinburgh which also includes St John Olgilvie's Church in Wester Hailes and the priests of both parishes.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Scotland,Edinburgh,Scot,Scots,Islam,religion,EH6,36,UK,EH6 5LA,along,religious,Muslim,the,parade,walking,walk,prophet,Muhammad,Islamic,Peace Processions,community,communities,of,exalted,Holy,Prophet,his,martyrdom,teaching,teachings,mission,peace,processions,believers,Muslims,men
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RE0XAT - The Annual Peace Processions of Edinburgh and Glasgow
The Shi'a Muslim communities of Scotland unite at these to walk in remembrance of the exalted sacrifice of Imam Hussain, grandson of the Holy Prophet, who was brutally killed in battle, along with his family and friends, for upholding the purest human values and for standing out against corruption and evil. His stance was a stance of divine love and of justice and mercy
a stance of the truth against falsehood
a stance of human awakening
and a stance of freedom against oppression. At this time, millions of Muslims across the world commemorate his martyrdom and remember the teachings he lived and died by. He is the inspiration of our mission. Our thanks extend to the Shi'a communities of Scotland for organising these processions.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RE0XAY - The Annual Peace Processions of Edinburgh and Glasgow
The Shi'a Muslim communities of Scotland unite at these to walk in remembrance of the exalted sacrifice of Imam Hussain, grandson of the Holy Prophet, who was brutally killed in battle, along with his family and friends, for upholding the purest human values and for standing out against corruption and evil. His stance was a stance of divine love and of justice and mercy
a stance of the truth against falsehood
a stance of human awakening
and a stance of freedom against oppression. At this time, millions of Muslims across the world commemorate his martyrdom and remember the teachings he lived and died by. He is the inspiration of our mission. Our thanks extend to the Shi'a communities of Scotland for organising these processions.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RHP1AE - John Hunter 1737 - 1821 - read more at https://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst344.html
Statue of John Hunter, Tower Place, Leith
Governor of New South Wales (Australia) between 1795 and 1800. He was born in Leith (City of Edinburgh) the son of a ship-master. He was second-in-command on HMS Sirius to Arthur Phillip who founded the colony of New South Wales in 1788. Hunter is said to have governed the colony with sense, duty and humanity, but he was not liked by the Duke of Portland, who was Secretary of State, and issued an order recalling him to England in 1799. His conduct was later vindicated and he was awarded a generous pension. He was briefly given command of the warship Venerable, but after this ship was wrecked he finished his career at a desk. In 1807, he was promoted to Rear Admiral and, three years later, to Vice-Admiral.
He died in London, where he lies buried in Hackney Old Cemetery.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RE0X81 - read more at https://heartofnewhaven.co.uk/whats-it-all-about.php
It all started when it was realised that Victoria Primary School in Newhaven on the northern outskirts of Edinburgh needed to expand and the decision was taken to build a new school.
Now we're almost three years down the line and the dream of converting the site containing the Victorian building into a brand new intergenerational centre for the whole community to enjoy, is nearing completion.
We've consulted with the community to find out what they want.
We've set up a SCIO, The Heart of Newhaven Community SCIO SCO49919 a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Constitution is here.
We have a board of trustees. We have members who will take the decisions moving into the future. See your board and consultants here.
We've passed the Community Asset Transfer test with Edinburgh City Council and been given permission to purchase the site. The Scottish Land fund have given us the Funds to buy the building.
NEWHAVEN IS A COMMUNITY WITH A HEART
Pulsating with energy is Victoria Primary School, full of children who in 2022 moved across Lindsay Road to a new site to pursue dreams for the future.
This iconic building and its annexe deserve be an asset for the whole community of Newhaven young and old, long-time residents and those newly moved here: everybody who wants to have a place to enjoy activities that can't yet find a space in Newhaven.
Newhaven has a distinct identity.
Its rapidly increasing population and range of activities is crying out for a focal point to express our sense of community life, especially to help those in greatest need of care and well-being.
The Heart of Newhaven was chosen as a name for the proposed centre, and the campaign to keep this building for the community, because:
it is in the centre of 'Greater Newhaven' (old and new combined)
because a community space for everyone is what keeps the community heart in Newhaven for the future.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Scotland,Edinburgh,tram stops,trams,Ltd,City of Edinburgh Council,city,transport,integrated,new,extension,tramstop,Urbos 3,tram,CAF,low-floor access,low floor access,Urbos3,wrapped advertisement,wrapped advertisements,centre,ticket,machine,machines,ticketing,electric,cables,overhead,live,passenger,Airport,route,rails,tracks,EH6 4UD,EH6,Leithers
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RE0X89 -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Scotland,Edinburgh,port,office,building,100 Ocean Drive,Leith,UK,EH6 6JJ,EH6,Ocean Drive,ports,terminal,cruise liner,Forth Ports,London,offices,boarding,sail,sailing,capital,line,liner,lines,passenger,tourists,visitors,landing,signage,signs,operating,company,operator,operators,estuary,river Forth,passengers,Leithers
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RE0X9H - Scotland's Capital Port - Leith, Edinburgh
Forth Ports Leith is Scotland's largest enclosed deep-water port with the capability of handling vessels up to 50,000 deadweight tonnes. Located to the north east of Edinburgh, less than 3 miles from the city centre, the port has access to Scotland's road and rail networks and is well positioned for all North Sea shipping activities.
Focussing on a range of cargo types, Leith has forged long-term relationships with customers ensuring that their needs are met for the reception and onward delivery of cargoes such as grain, animal feed, steel pipes and recycled products, ensuring that industries such as food production, oil and gas, and agriculture continue to operate and thrive.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Scotland,Edinburgh,EH6,port,of,Leith,Lothian,UK,EH6 6JJ,OT,at,moor,moored,up,HM,docks,craft,marine,travel,voyage,ship,harbour,harbourside,dockyard,shopping,centre,prow,ships,Great Britain,British,royals,flags,in,boat,family,Leithers
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RE0X9N - Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia, also known as the Royal Yacht Britannia, is the former royal yacht of the British monarchy. She was in service from 1954 until 1997. She was the 83rd such vessel since King Charles II acceded to the throne in 1660, and is the second royal yacht to bear the name, the first being the racing cutter built for the Prince of Wales in 1893. During her 43-year career, the yacht travelled more than a million nautical miles around the world to more than 600 ports in 135 countries. Now retired from royal service, Britannia is permanently berthed at Ocean Terminal, Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland, where it is a visitor attraction with over 300,000 visits each year.
Construction
HMY Britannia was built at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire. She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II on 16 April 1953, and commissioned on 11 January 1954. The ship was designed with three masts: a 133-foot (41 m) foremast, a 139-foot (42 m) mainmast, and a 118-foot (36 m) mizzenmast. The top aerial on the foremast and the top 20 feet (6.1 m) of the mainmast were hinged to allow the ship to pass under bridges.
Britannia was designed to be converted into a hospital ship in time of war, although this capability was never used. In the event of nuclear war, it was intended for the Queen and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to take refuge aboard Britannia off the north-west coast of Scotland
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RE0X9W - Scotland's Capital Port - Leith, Edinburgh
Forth Ports Leith is Scotland's largest enclosed deep-water port with the capability of handling vessels up to 50,000 deadweight tonnes. Located to the north east of Edinburgh, less than 3 miles from the city centre, the port has access to Scotland's road and rail networks and is well positioned for all North Sea shipping activities.
Focussing on a range of cargo types, Leith has forged long-term relationships with customers ensuring that their needs are met for the reception and onward delivery of cargoes such as grain, animal feed, steel pipes and recycled products, ensuring that industries such as food production, oil and gas, and agriculture continue to operate and thrive.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RE0XA2 - Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia, also known as the Royal Yacht Britannia, is the former royal yacht of the British monarchy. She was in service from 1954 until 1997. She was the 83rd such vessel since King Charles II acceded to the throne in 1660, and is the second royal yacht to bear the name, the first being the racing cutter built for the Prince of Wales in 1893. During her 43-year career, the yacht travelled more than a million nautical miles around the world to more than 600 ports in 135 countries. Now retired from royal service, Britannia is permanently berthed at Ocean Terminal, Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland, where it is a visitor attraction with over 300,000 visits each year.
Construction
HMY Britannia was built at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire. She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II on 16 April 1953, and commissioned on 11 January 1954. The ship was designed with three masts: a 133-foot (41 m) foremast, a 139-foot (42 m) mainmast, and a 118-foot (36 m) mizzenmast. The top aerial on the foremast and the top 20 feet (6.1 m) of the mainmast were hinged to allow the ship to pass under bridges.
Britannia was designed to be converted into a hospital ship in time of war, although this capability was never used. In the event of nuclear war, it was intended for the Queen and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to take refuge aboard Britannia off the north-west coast of Scotland
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RECE2C - Edinburgh distilleries: Historic moment for £12m Port of Leith Distillery as attraction prepares to open
New Edinburgh distillery promises to be the biggest tourist attraction built in Leith in decades'
An innovative new Edinburgh distillery is marking an historic moment as it prepares to open. Stills have been installed at Port of Leith Distillery the UK's first vertical distillery which has been described as the biggest tourist attraction to be built in Leith for decades. With a projected 25,000 visitors expected in its first year, the distillery is due to open in summer 2023 at the site of an old biscuit factory.
The installation of the two hand-crafted copper stills (a 7,000 litre wash still and a 5,000 litre spirit still) from The Speyside Copper Works in Elgin is the latest milestone for the £12m nine-storey distillery, which will offer tours and tastings, as well as a top floor mezzanine bar with panoramic views of Leith and wider Edinburgh. Owners say the attraction is creating up to 50 long term local jobs, with the capacity to produce one million bottles of whisky a year, through its energy-saving gravitational distilling system.
Ian Stirling, co-founder of Port of Leith Distillery, said: For much of the 19th and 20th century, Leith was the unofficial capital of Scotch Whisky - making it the perfect place to build a new industrial landmark like the Port of Leith Distillery
an honest and modern piece of architecture that reflects our new and innovative approach to production. Installing our stills brings us one step closer to our summer distillery opening and welcoming tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world to come and experience a UK first.
Port of Leith Distillery is the latest long term investment in Leith by co-owners and lifelong friends Ian Stirling and Paddy Fletcher, following the opening of the new Lind & Lime Gin Distillery in May 2022, a brand they launched in 2018 from an industrial unit.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RECE2H - Meadowbank Stadium (officially the Meadowbank Sports Centre) is a multi-purpose sports facility located in the Meadowbank area of Edinburgh, Scotland. Built on the site of the earlier New Meadowbank and Old Meadowbank sports venues, it was originally built to host the 1970 Commonwealth Games. It also hosted the Games in 1986, becoming the first venue to host the Games twice. It is the current home of Scottish League One side Edinburgh City.
The stadium has also regularly hosted football. It was the home ground of Scottish Football League team Meadowbank Thistle between 1974 and 1995, becoming the first all-seated football ground in the UK in the process, it hosted senior non-league football as the home ground of Edinburgh City. League football returned to Meadowbank in 2016 following City's promotion to the Scottish Professional Football League. The Meadowbank complex also hosted Leith Athletic, which played on the Meadowbank 3G artificial pitch adjacent to the main stadium since 2013.
In the early months of 2019 the stadium was demolished and work begun on construction of its replacement. In 2022, following the completion of construction, Edinburgh City returned to Meadowbank.
Meadowbank Stadium was also used for rugby union as the home venue of Edinburgh Rugby between 2002 and 2004.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RECE42 - A pig roast or hog roast is an event or gathering which involves the barbecuing of a whole pig.
Pig roasts, under a variety of names, are a common traditional celebration event in many places including the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Cuba. It is also popular in the United States, especially in the state of Hawaii (a luau) and in the Southern United States (pig pickin'). In Southeast Asia, a pig roast is a staple among the Buddhist, and Christian communities, notably among Catholic Filipinos and Hindu Balinese people, or Buddhist Chinese people.
In the UK, the tradition of pig roasting, more commonly known in the UK as a hog roast, is popular on many occasions, particularly parties and celebrations. It is usually an outdoor event, and a staple meal at many show events. The tradition is to roast either on a spit, turning the pig under a flame, or in a large oven in a roasting pan
roasting pigs around 130 lbs (60 kg) in weight are common in the UK. The pig is normally roasted in a propane gas machine. The pig's skin is scored with a sharp blade and covered in water and salt to make the crackling. In ancient times, going all the way back to the Saxons, roasting a wild boar was often the centerpiece of a meal at Yuletide, with Yule being Freya's feast. The head was often the greatest delicacy, as evidenced by the survival of the Boar's Head Carol.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2REGJ8M - An Edinburgh Tram stopped at the Newhaven terminus on Newhaven Place, Edinburgh, postcode EH6 4DF. The image shows a modern articulated tram operating on street-level tracks with overhead power lines, part of the city's expanding light rail network serving the north of Edinburgh.
The Newhaven extension connects Leith and the waterfront districts with Edinburgh city centre, improving access to employment, housing, and visitor destinations. The tram system plays a key role in the city's sustainable transport strategy, offering a reliable alternative to private car use and supporting reductions in congestion and emissions.
Newhaven forms part of the historic port area of Leith, which has seen significant residential and mixed-use redevelopment in recent years. The introduction of tram services reflects wider investment in public transport and urban regeneration along Edinburgh's northern corridor.
Photographed in daylight under overcast skies, the image documents everyday public transport in operation and is suitable for editorial use covering urban mobility, transport infrastructure investment, sustainable cities, and contemporary life in Edinburgh.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2REGJB0 - An Edinburgh Tram stopped at the Newhaven terminus on Newhaven Place, Edinburgh, postcode EH6 4DF. The image shows a modern articulated tram operating on street-level tracks with overhead power lines, part of the city's expanding light rail network serving the north of Edinburgh.
The Newhaven extension connects Leith and the waterfront districts with Edinburgh city centre, improving access to employment, housing, and visitor destinations. The tram system plays a key role in the city's sustainable transport strategy, offering a reliable alternative to private car use and supporting reductions in congestion and emissions.
Newhaven forms part of the historic port area of Leith, which has seen significant residential and mixed-use redevelopment in recent years. The introduction of tram services reflects wider investment in public transport and urban regeneration along Edinburgh's northern corridor.
Photographed in daylight under overcast skies, the image documents everyday public transport in operation and is suitable for editorial use covering urban mobility, transport infrastructure investment, sustainable cities, and contemporary life in Edinburgh.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2REGJBA - Edinburgh Tram stopped at the Newhaven terminus on Newhaven Place, Edinburgh, postcode EH6 4DF. The image shows a modern low-floor tram at the platform with overhead power lines and passenger facilities, illustrating contemporary urban public transport infrastructure in the north of the city.
The Newhaven extension forms part of the Edinburgh Trams network linking the city centre with Leith and the waterfront areas, significantly improving public transport connectivity between residential districts, employment areas, and key visitor destinations. The tram system is designed to support sustainable travel by providing a reliable alternative to private car use.
Newhaven has a long maritime and industrial history as part of the wider Leith area, and the arrival of the tram represents a major investment in regeneration and urban mobility. The integration of modern light rail vehicles into existing streetscapes highlights the balance between historic urban environments and contemporary transport needs.
Photographed in daylight under overcast skies, the image documents everyday tram operations and is suitable for editorial use relating to public transport policy, sustainable cities, urban infrastructure investment, and life in modern Edinburgh.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2REGJD7 - An Edinburgh Trams service passes through the Ocean Terminal stop in Leith, showing a modern low-floor tram manufactured by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF). The image captures the tram operating along the Newhaven extension, which reconnects the waterfront districts of north Edinburgh to the city's light-rail network.
The background of newly built apartment blocks highlights the close relationship between transport investment and urban regeneration in Leith, where former docklands and retail areas have been redeveloped for residential and mixed-use purposes. The tram line provides a fixed, electric public-transport link between the waterfront, the city centre and Edinburgh Airport, supporting lower-carbon travel and higher-density urban living.
Photographed in daylight during normal service, the image documents contemporary public transport operating within a changing urban environment. It is suitable for editorial use relating to sustainable transport, housing development, regeneration policy, and modern city infrastructure in Scotland.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M366T7 - Traditional festive-themed gift store stocking decorations, carved German figures and nutcrackers.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M36741 - We neither condemn nor condone drug use: we exist to reduce harm, challenge perceptions and help people make positive choices about their use of cannabis, stimulant and other social drugs and sexual health by providing non-judgemental, credible and up to date information and support.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M368KB - The annual Edinburgh Hogmanay celebration was originally an informal street party focused on the Tron Kirk in the Old Town's High Street. Since 1993, it has been officially organised with the focus moved to Princes Street. In 1996, over 300,000 people attended, leading to ticketing of the main street party in later years up to a limit of 100,000 tickets. Hogmanay now covers four days of processions, concerts and fireworks, with the street party beginning on Hogmanay. Alternative tickets are available for entrance into the Princes Street Gardens concert and Cèilidh, where well-known artists perform and ticket holders can participate in traditional Scottish cèilidh dancing. The event attracts thousands of people from all over the world
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M3692R - Louis Vuitton Malletier, commonly known as Louis Vuitton , is a French high-end luxury fashion house and company founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton. The label's LV monogram appears on most of its products, ranging from luxury bags and leather goods to ready-to-wear, shoes, watches, jewelry, accessories, sunglasses and books. Louis Vuitton is one of the world's leading international fashion houses. It sells its products through standalone boutiques, lease departments in high-end departmental stores, and through the e-commerce section of its website.
For six consecutive years (20062012), Louis Vuitton was named the world's most valuable luxury brand. Its 2012 valuation was US$25.9 billion. In 2013, the valuation of the brand was US$28.4 billion with revenue of US$9.4 billion. The company operates in 50 countries with more than 460 stores worldwide
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Edinburgh,city,centre,Scotland,EH1,shops,retail,EH1 3DQ,upmarket,complex big-name,fashion,exercise equipment,bike,bikes,physical,store,stores,service,services,costly,expensive,online,community,brand,sporting,equipment,sign,uncertainty,losses,losing,users,lockdown,shop,window,job losses,rise and fall,night
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M36969 - Peloton Interactive, Inc. is an American exercise equipment and media company based in New York City. The company's products are stationary bicycles, treadmills, indoor rowers equipped with Internet-connected touch screens that steam live and on-demand fitness classes through a subscription service. The equipment includes built-in sensors that track metrics such power output, providing users with real-time feedback on their performance and leaderboard rankings to compete with other users.
Peloton charges a US$44 monthly membership fee to access classes and additional features on their exercise equipment, or $12.99 for users only accessing the content via app or website
In 2011, John Foley, an executive at Barnes & Noble in New York City, pitched his colleague, Tom Cortese, on the idea that technology could make it possible for people with little time to get the full experience of working out in a high-end studio cycling class in their homes. Peloton Interactive was founded in January 2012
The company raised $400,000 in seed money in February 2012 and another $3.5 million in December 2012. Peloton sold its first bike on Kickstarter in 2013 with an early bird price tag of $1,500. Their first Internet-connected stationary bicycle with a tablet was released in 2014. The company also opened showrooms in shopping centers around the US, for people to test out the machines, and sales quickly soared, behind the entertaining classes and cycling instructors, and the online community of riders
Sales increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic as home gyms became more popular during the COVID-19 lockdowns. However, the rapid increase in demand caused shipping delays, with customers receiving their products months late, leading some to cancel orders
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M36995 - Edinburgh Playhouse is a theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. With 3,059 seats it is the second largest theatre in the United Kingdom after the Hammersmith Apollo. The theatre is owned by Ambassador Theatre Group.
The theatre opened on 12 August 1929 as a super-cinema, and was modelled on the Roxy Cinema in New York. It was designed by the specialist cinema architect John Fairweather, most famous for his Green's Playhouse cinema in Glasgow. The original colour scheme was described on opening as follows:
Tones of ivory and stone predominate on the walls, and the roof is decorated with bands of pale green leaves intersected with gold at intervals. The seats in the different parts of the house have been upholstered to harmonise with the general scheme of the decoration. The organ fronts are in Venetian style, and the clock settings, which are square, are neat and attractive.
The building was originally listed Category B in 1974, and this was upgraded by Historic Scotland to Category A in 2008
In recent years, The Playhouse has played host to a wide variety of artists and shows.
It also caters to the youth of the surrounding area who are involved in stage experience projects and youth musicals projects in which children as young as 10, and young adults as old as 21, can take part in shows on the world-famous stage.
It is used as a venue for both the Edinburgh International Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe each August
The building is said to be haunted by a ghost called Albert, a man in a grey coat who appears on level six accompanied by a chill in the air. He is variously said to have been either a stagehand who was killed in an accident or a night-watchman who committed suicide
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M369CW -
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,EH99,Edinburgh,Scotland,UK,EH99 1SP,exterior,flag,saltire,flags,of,the,Scottish,building,Scottish Parliament Building,Alba,members,MSP,Pàrlamaid na h-Alba,parliamentary,complex,SNP,independence,Scots,security,concrete,democracy,democratic,visitor,&,and,public,entrance,autonomy
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NM5N33 - From the outset, the building and its construction have been controversial. The choices of location, architect, design, and construction company were all criticised by politicians, the media and the Scottish public. Scheduled to open in 2001, it did so in 2004, more than three years late with an estimated final cost of £414 million, many times higher than initial estimates of between £10m and £40m. A major public inquiry into the handling of the construction, chaired by the former Lord Advocate, Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, was established in 2003. The inquiry concluded in September 2004 and criticised the management of the whole project from the realisation of cost increases down to the way in which major design changes were implemented. Despite these criticisms and a mixed public reaction, the building was welcomed by architectural academics and critics. The building aimed to achieve a poetic union between the Scottish landscape, its people, its culture, and the city of Edinburgh. The Parliament Building won numerous awards including the 2005 Stirling Prize and has been described by landscape architect Charles Jencks as a tour de force of arts and crafts and quality without parallel in the last 100 years of British architecture
Comprising an area of 1.6 ha (4 acres), with a perimeter of 480 m (1570 ft), the Scottish Parliament Building is located 1 km (0.6 mi) east of Edinburgh city centre on the edge of the Old Town. The large site previously housed the headquarters of the Scottish and Newcastle brewery which were demolished to make way for the building. The boundary of the site is marked by the Canongate stretch of the Royal Mile on its northern side, Horse Wynd on its eastern side, where the public entrance to the building is, and Reid's Close on its western side. Reid's Close connects the Canongate and Holyrood Road on the southwestern side of the complex. The south eastern side of the complex is bounded by the Our Dynamic Earth visitor attraction
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KRXPPM - The British Rail Class 800 Intercity Express Train or Azuma is a type of bi-mode multiple unit train built by Hitachi for Great Western Railway and London North Eastern Railway. The type uses electric motors powered from overhead electric wires for traction, but also has diesel generators to enable trains to operate on unelectrified track. It is a part of the Hitachi AT300 product family.
The Class 800 was produced under the Intercity Express Programme (IEP) as a replacement for the Intercity 125 and Intercity 225 fleets of high speed trains. The trains were manufactured by Hitachi between 2014 and 2018, assembly being performed at the Hitachi Newton Aycliffe facility, alongside the related Class 801, from bodyshells shipped from the Kasado plant in Japan
no body construction takes place in the UK. As well as resembling the Class 801, the units are also very similar to the Class 802 units, which have uprated diesel engines and larger fuel tanks.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KRXR47 - The British Rail Class 800 Intercity Express Train or Azuma is a type of bi-mode multiple unit train built by Hitachi for Great Western Railway and London North Eastern Railway. The type uses electric motors powered from overhead electric wires for traction, but also has diesel generators to enable trains to operate on unelectrified track. It is a part of the Hitachi AT300 product family.
The Class 800 was produced under the Intercity Express Programme (IEP) as a replacement for the Intercity 125 and Intercity 225 fleets of high speed trains. The trains were manufactured by Hitachi between 2014 and 2018, assembly being performed at the Hitachi Newton Aycliffe facility, alongside the related Class 801, from bodyshells shipped from the Kasado plant in Japan
no body construction takes place in the UK. As well as resembling the Class 801, the units are also very similar to the Class 802 units, which have uprated diesel engines and larger fuel tanks.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Scotland,UK,Edinburgh,EH1,banks,finance,sterling,The,Pound,currency,independence,money,referendum,cash,Scottish,city,centre,sign,old,history,historic,Banca na h-Alba,HBOS,Lloyds,TSB,established,merger,financial,sector,market,North Bank Street,issue,banknotes,notes,app,online,banking
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KRXR73 - The Bank of Scotland plc (Scottish Gaelic: Banca na h-Alba) is a commercial and clearing bank based in Scotland and is part of the Lloyds Banking Group, following the Bank of Scotland's implosion in 2008. The bank was established by the Parliament of Scotland in 1695 to develop Scotland's trade with other countries, and aimed to create a stable banking system in the Kingdom of Scotland.
With a history dating to the end of the 17th century, it is the fifth-oldest extant bank in the United Kingdom (the Bank of England having been established one year earlier), and is the only commercial institution created by the Parliament of Scotland to remain in existence. It was one of the first banks in Europe to print its own banknotes, and it continues to print its own sterling banknotes under legal arrangements that allow Scottish banks to issue currency.
In June 2006, the HBOS Group Reorganisation Act 2006 was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, allowing the bank's structure to be simplified. As a result, The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland became Bank of Scotland plc on 17 September 2007. Bank of Scotland has been a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group since 19 January 2009, when HBOS was acquired by Lloyds TSB
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland was established by an Act of the Parliament of Scotland on 17 July 1695, the Act for erecting a Bank in Scotland, opening for business in February 1696. Although established soon after the Bank of England (1694), the Bank of Scotland was a very different institution. Whereas the Bank of England was established specifically to finance defence spending by the English government, the Bank of Scotland was established by the Scottish government to support Scottish business, and was prohibited from lending to the government without parliamentary approval
Lloyds Banking Group
Following the implosion of the Bank of Scotland in 2008, HBOS Group agreed to be taken over by Lloyds TSB Group
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ANMBD6 - The CAF Civity is a platform of regional passenger trains which is manufactured by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF. Available as both a diesel and electric multiple unit, the Civity was first launched in 2010 and received its first order two years later.
Train length: 43140.2 m (141 ft 1 in460 ft 0 in)
Weight: c. 100 t (98.4 long tons
110.2 short tons)
Built at: Irun
Zaragoza
Newport
The British Rail Class 397 Civity is built by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF for lease to TransPennine Express by Eversholt Rail Group
Announcement of new trains was made by FirstGroup when it was confirmed that they would become the next operator of the TransPennine Express franchise from 1 April 2016. In May 2016 it was announced by TransPennine Express that they had ordered twelve five-car electric multiple units from CAF to replace the fleet of ten four-car Class 350/4 Desiro units which presently operate TransPennine Express services between Liverpool, Manchester and Scotland.
Testing of the first set began at the Velim railway test circuit in July 2018.
An option for up to 22 extra units was available to TransPennine Express, but it was not exercised.
Mainline testing of the Class 397 was carried out from Manchester International Depot, operating between the depot and Carlisle via Crewe, the test runs being operated by Rail Operations Group.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ANMBD7 - The CAF Civity is a platform of regional passenger trains which is manufactured by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF. Available as both a diesel and electric multiple unit, the Civity was first launched in 2010 and received its first order two years later.
Train length: 43140.2 m (141 ft 1 in460 ft 0 in)
Weight: c. 100 t (98.4 long tons
110.2 short tons)
Built at: Irun
Zaragoza
Newport
The British Rail Class 397 Civity is built by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF for lease to TransPennine Express by Eversholt Rail Group
Announcement of new trains was made by FirstGroup when it was confirmed that they would become the next operator of the TransPennine Express franchise from 1 April 2016. In May 2016 it was announced by TransPennine Express that they had ordered twelve five-car electric multiple units from CAF to replace the fleet of ten four-car Class 350/4 Desiro units which presently operate TransPennine Express services between Liverpool, Manchester and Scotland.
Testing of the first set began at the Velim railway test circuit in July 2018.
An option for up to 22 extra units was available to TransPennine Express, but it was not exercised.
Mainline testing of the Class 397 was carried out from Manchester International Depot, operating between the depot and Carlisle via Crewe, the test runs being operated by Rail Operations Group.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ANMBD8 - The CAF Civity is a platform of regional passenger trains which is manufactured by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF. Available as both a diesel and electric multiple unit, the Civity was first launched in 2010 and received its first order two years later.
Train length: 43140.2 m (141 ft 1 in460 ft 0 in)
Weight: c. 100 t (98.4 long tons
110.2 short tons)
Built at: Irun
Zaragoza
Newport
The British Rail Class 397 Civity is built by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF for lease to TransPennine Express by Eversholt Rail Group
Announcement of new trains was made by FirstGroup when it was confirmed that they would become the next operator of the TransPennine Express franchise from 1 April 2016. In May 2016 it was announced by TransPennine Express that they had ordered twelve five-car electric multiple units from CAF to replace the fleet of ten four-car Class 350/4 Desiro units which presently operate TransPennine Express services between Liverpool, Manchester and Scotland.
Testing of the first set began at the Velim railway test circuit in July 2018.
An option for up to 22 extra units was available to TransPennine Express, but it was not exercised.
Mainline testing of the Class 397 was carried out from Manchester International Depot, operating between the depot and Carlisle via Crewe, the test runs being operated by Rail Operations Group.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ANMBE0 - Abellio ScotRail contract to end three years early
Abellio ScotRail's contract to run train services in Scotland will end early, Transport Secretary Michael Matheson has announced.
The Dutch firm has been running the franchise since 2015 but had faced criticism over cancellations and performance levels.
The contract, worth more than £7bn over 10 years, was due to last until 2025.
But Mr Matheson said a so-called break clause would be used to end the franchise three years early, in 2022.
He told MSPs he was looking at other options for the future, including the franchise being run by the public sector.
What is the ScotRail franchise?
ScotRail operates about 2,400 train services a day, and covers all services in Scotland except those run by other operators which cross the border.
It is not responsible for the maintenance of the track, which falls under Network Rail nor the operation of the main rail routes from Glasgow and Edinburgh to London.
There had been political pressure on ministers over the service with complaints over a high number of cancellations, overcrowding and the cost of tickets.
In a statement to the Scottish Parliament, Mr Matheson said a proposed increase in government subsidy for the service would not deliver sufficient benefits to passengers or the economy.
Image caption Mr Matheson told the Scottish parliament a break clause will be used to end the franchise early
Mr Matheson said Abellio had successes and challenges over the first five years of the ScotRail franchise, but that his decision was the right one for passengers, communities, the economy and taxpayers.
He confirmed the contract would now run until 31 March, 2022.
It is of course necessary to plan for the future provision of ScotRail services and I can confirm that work is already under way to examine the options open to the Scottish ministers after the current contract comes to an end, he said.
The franchise system for Britain's railways is grinding to a halt.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ANMBE2 - Abellio ScotRail contract to end three years early
Abellio ScotRail's contract to run train services in Scotland will end early, Transport Secretary Michael Matheson has announced.
The Dutch firm has been running the franchise since 2015 but had faced criticism over cancellations and performance levels.
The contract, worth more than £7bn over 10 years, was due to last until 2025.
But Mr Matheson said a so-called break clause would be used to end the franchise three years early, in 2022.
He told MSPs he was looking at other options for the future, including the franchise being run by the public sector.
What is the ScotRail franchise?
ScotRail operates about 2,400 train services a day, and covers all services in Scotland except those run by other operators which cross the border.
It is not responsible for the maintenance of the track, which falls under Network Rail nor the operation of the main rail routes from Glasgow and Edinburgh to London.
There had been political pressure on ministers over the service with complaints over a high number of cancellations, overcrowding and the cost of tickets.
In a statement to the Scottish Parliament, Mr Matheson said a proposed increase in government subsidy for the service would not deliver sufficient benefits to passengers or the economy.
Image caption Mr Matheson told the Scottish parliament a break clause will be used to end the franchise early
Mr Matheson said Abellio had successes and challenges over the first five years of the ScotRail franchise, but that his decision was the right one for passengers, communities, the economy and taxpayers.
He confirmed the contract would now run until 31 March, 2022.
It is of course necessary to plan for the future provision of ScotRail services and I can confirm that work is already under way to examine the options open to the Scottish ministers after the current contract comes to an end, he said.
The franchise system for Britain's railways is grinding to a halt.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K43P10 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XN31 - Royal Mail's talking postboxes are back for Christmas. Four postboxes have been spruced up in Christmas trim, with elves ready to respond once a letter or card is posted.
The elves say things like Call your mother, Eat more vegetables, If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back at you, The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains, and Send help.
The four postboxes are located in Greenwich, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast, and will be in place for the entire festive season.
(According to Royal Mail, the postboxes respond to letters being posted with the sounds of elves hard at work, not fomenting a workers' revolution.)
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XN37 - Greyfriars Kirkyard is the graveyard surrounding Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located at the southern edge of the Old Town, adjacent to George Heriot's School. Burials have been taking place since the late 16th century, and a number of notable Edinburgh residents are interred at Greyfriars. The Kirkyard is operated by City of Edinburgh Council in liaison with a charitable trust, which is linked to but separate from the church. The Kirkyard and its monuments are protected as a category A listed building.
History
Greyfriars takes its name from the Franciscan friary on the site (the friars of which wear grey habits), which was dissolved in 1560. The churchyard was founded in August 1562 after Royal sanction was granted to replace the churchyard at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh. The latter burial ground was not used after around 1600.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4687656256 - 'At this time of year, you can have quite enough of your family and friends. Nice to take stock and have some 'Me Time'.
Not surprising that we see a peak in suicides at this time of year. It does peak in January apparently in the UK, maybe because after Christmas, there is a massive anti-climax. We realise we are actually no closer to our family or friends, than our mantelpiece of Xmas cards suggest. Our promises to 'meet up soon' are just words. We may all die alone, friendless with no legacy.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4615167474 - 'Blimey, those tardis's are hard to track down.....
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4682347412 - 'Well with all this gin-mania, its perhaps rude to not have a go.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTK0 - Edinburgh College is opening what is claimed to be Scotland's first solar meadow.
The five-acre site, at the Midlothian campus in Dalkeith, features more than 2,500 photo-voltaic panels.
Its designed and installed by energy company SSE - would cut its fuel bills.
It will also help to train engineering students and to research the impact on electrical output of environmental factors such as the weather.
Professor Steve Tinsley oversaw the solar meadow project
But we have produced a fantastic project here, he said.
Up to this point, Scotland produces 500 kW of solar PV energy. With this project we have now trebled that.
Richard Chandler, SSE's head of Green Deal and Energy Solutions, said: The Solar Meadow will generate enough energy to power 170 homes.
It's also a fine example of how industry and education can work well together.
This project will bring benefits to the college, its students and the wider community as well as further strengthening Scotland's renewable energy resources.
Alana Beaton, from Inverness, who is studying electrical engineering at the college, said she was hoping the college would be able to use the project as an outdoor classroom to help her get a job in the industry.
Having the solar meadow available means that we're going to have hands-on experience with green energy, she said.
We know fossil fuels are slowly running out, so green energy is the way forward.
Myth busting
The site, at what used to be the former Jewel and Esk college until the merger which created Edinburgh College six months ago, is one of the most northerly solar power installations in Europe.
Research there will focus on the interplay between biodiversity and solar technology. To help that the entire site will be planted with wild grasses and flowers.
Professor Tinsley said: This is a significant research facility, and we've had conversations with various universities on how we use it, and attract funding for future projects.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F89PM1 - Arthur Frederic Edward Pitman grave monument in St John interior interior church memorials, Edinburgh, Scotland,UK
Capt Arthur Frederic Edward Pitman of the 5th Seaforth Highlanders and Royal Flying Corps. Killed in action in the air
Flanders 3rd January 1918.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EYAX38 - Edinburgh Castle is a historic fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland from its position on the Castle Rock. Archaeologists have established human occupation of the rock since at least the Iron Age (2nd century AD), although the nature of the early settlement is unclear. There has been a royal castle on the rock since at least the reign of David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
From the 15th century the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as military barracks with a large garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out over the past century and a half. As one of the most important strongholds in the Kingdom of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle was involved in many historical conflicts from the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century to the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Research undertaken in 2014 identified 26 sieges in its 1100 year-old history, giving it a claim to having been the most besieged place in Great Britain and one of the most attacked in the world
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EYAX3C - Edinburgh Castle is a historic fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland from its position on the Castle Rock. Archaeologists have established human occupation of the rock since at least the Iron Age (2nd century AD), although the nature of the early settlement is unclear. There has been a royal castle on the rock since at least the reign of David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
From the 15th century the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as military barracks with a large garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out over the past century and a half. As one of the most important strongholds in the Kingdom of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle was involved in many historical conflicts from the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century to the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Research undertaken in 2014 identified 26 sieges in its 1100 year-old history, giving it a claim to having been the most besieged place in Great Britain and one of the most attacked in the world
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EYAX3F - Edinburgh Castle is a historic fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland from its position on the Castle Rock. Archaeologists have established human occupation of the rock since at least the Iron Age (2nd century AD), although the nature of the early settlement is unclear. There has been a royal castle on the rock since at least the reign of David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
From the 15th century the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as military barracks with a large garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out over the past century and a half. As one of the most important strongholds in the Kingdom of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle was involved in many historical conflicts from the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century to the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Research undertaken in 2014 identified 26 sieges in its 1100 year-old history, giving it a claim to having been the most besieged place in Great Britain and one of the most attacked in the world
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EYAX3H - Edinburgh Castle is a historic fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland from its position on the Castle Rock. Archaeologists have established human occupation of the rock since at least the Iron Age (2nd century AD), although the nature of the early settlement is unclear. There has been a royal castle on the rock since at least the reign of David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
From the 15th century the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as military barracks with a large garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out over the past century and a half. As one of the most important strongholds in the Kingdom of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle was involved in many historical conflicts from the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century to the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Research undertaken in 2014 identified 26 sieges in its 1100 year-old history, giving it a claim to having been the most besieged place in Great Britain and one of the most attacked in the world
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EYAX3K - Edinburgh Castle is a historic fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland from its position on the Castle Rock. Archaeologists have established human occupation of the rock since at least the Iron Age (2nd century AD), although the nature of the early settlement is unclear. There has been a royal castle on the rock since at least the reign of David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
From the 15th century the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as military barracks with a large garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out over the past century and a half. As one of the most important strongholds in the Kingdom of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle was involved in many historical conflicts from the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century to the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Research undertaken in 2014 identified 26 sieges in its 1100 year-old history, giving it a claim to having been the most besieged place in Great Britain and one of the most attacked in the world
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EYAX3W - Edinburgh Castle is a historic fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland from its position on the Castle Rock. Archaeologists have established human occupation of the rock since at least the Iron Age (2nd century AD), although the nature of the early settlement is unclear. There has been a royal castle on the rock since at least the reign of David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
From the 15th century the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as military barracks with a large garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out over the past century and a half. As one of the most important strongholds in the Kingdom of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle was involved in many historical conflicts from the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century to the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Research undertaken in 2014 identified 26 sieges in its 1100 year-old history, giving it a claim to having been the most besieged place in Great Britain and one of the most attacked in the world
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EYAX4B - Edinburgh Castle is a historic fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland from its position on the Castle Rock. Archaeologists have established human occupation of the rock since at least the Iron Age (2nd century AD), although the nature of the early settlement is unclear. There has been a royal castle on the rock since at least the reign of David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
From the 15th century the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as military barracks with a large garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out over the past century and a half. As one of the most important strongholds in the Kingdom of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle was involved in many historical conflicts from the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century to the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Research undertaken in 2014 identified 26 sieges in its 1100 year-old history, giving it a claim to having been the most besieged place in Great Britain and one of the most attacked in the world
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EYAX4H - Edinburgh Castle is a historic fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland from its position on the Castle Rock. Archaeologists have established human occupation of the rock since at least the Iron Age (2nd century AD), although the nature of the early settlement is unclear. There has been a royal castle on the rock since at least the reign of David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
From the 15th century the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as military barracks with a large garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out over the past century and a half. As one of the most important strongholds in the Kingdom of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle was involved in many historical conflicts from the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century to the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Research undertaken in 2014 identified 26 sieges in its 1100 year-old history, giving it a claim to having been the most besieged place in Great Britain and one of the most attacked in the world
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ETRXNC - Jenners Department Store, now known simply as Jenners, is a department store located in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was the oldest independent department store in Scotland until its acquisition by House of Fraser in 2005
Jenners has maintained its position on Edinburgh's Princes Street since 1838 when it was founded by Charles Jenner and Charles Kennington and known as Kennington & Jenner. The store was run for many years by the Douglas-Miller family, who were descendants of James Kennedy, who took charge of Jenners in 1881.
The original buildings that formed the department store were destroyed by fire in 1892, and in 1893 the Scottish architect William Hamilton Beattie was appointed to design the new store which subsequently opened in 1895.[2] This new building is designated as a category A listed building,[3] and it is noted by the statutory listing that, at Charles Jenner's insistence, the building's caryatids were intended 'to show symbolically that women are the support of the house'. The new store included many technical innovations such as electric lighting and hydraulic lifts.
Known as the Harrods of the North, it has held a Royal Warrant since 1911, and was visited by Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of its 150th anniversary in 1988.
In 2004 it changed its vision statement from its goal to be the most exciting department store outside of London to Confidently Independent. The store made national news in 2007 when it publicised that it would stop selling pate de foie gras, following a boycott by the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED9DKY - Lothian Buses is the only municipal bus company in Scotland and the largest municipal bus company in the United Kingdom. It is the dominant provider of bus services in Lothian. Transport for Edinburgh, a company wholly owned by the City of Edinburgh Council, owns 91% of the company, with the remainder being owned by the East Lothian and Midlothian councils.
Lothian Buses operates the majority of bus services in Edinburgh, extending to outlying suburbs, towns and villages. The company also operates several limited stop express routes, an Edinburgh Airport service, park and ride services and a night bus network as well as several tourist services.
The company operates four travel shops (three in the city centre and one in Dalkeith), and operates buses from three depot locations
Longstone, Annandale Street and Marine at Seafield. The company also maintains a driver training school and an engineering depot at Seafield
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED9DM0 - Lothian Buses is the only municipal bus company in Scotland and the largest municipal bus company in the United Kingdom. It is the dominant provider of bus services in Lothian. Transport for Edinburgh, a company wholly owned by the City of Edinburgh Council, owns 91% of the company, with the remainder being owned by the East Lothian and Midlothian councils.
Lothian Buses operates the majority of bus services in Edinburgh, extending to outlying suburbs, towns and villages. The company also operates several limited stop express routes, an Edinburgh Airport service, park and ride services and a night bus network as well as several tourist services.
The company operates four travel shops (three in the city centre and one in Dalkeith), and operates buses from three depot locations
Longstone, Annandale Street and Marine at Seafield. The company also maintains a driver training school and an engineering depot at Seafield
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED4M0B - INSCRIPTION:
ON THIS SITE STOOD THE LODGING OF SIR SIMON PRESTON
OF CRAIGMILLAR PROVOST OF THE CITY OF EDINBURGH
1566-7 IN WHICH LODGING MARY QUEEN OF SCOTLAND
AFTER HER SURRENDER TO THE CONFEDERATE LORDS
AT CARBERRY HILL SPENT HER LAST NIGHT IN EDIN-
BURGH 15TH JUNE 1567. ON THE FOLLOWING EVENING
SHE WAS CONVEYED TO HOLYROOD AND THEREAFTER
TO LOCHLEVEN CASTLE AS A STATE PRISONER.
THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THE LORD PROVOST
MAGISTRATES AND COUNCIL OF EDINBURGH
MAR 1894
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED4M16 - This is Fleshmarket Close made famous by Ian Rankin's novel of the same name.
Halfway down the close is the Halfway House, a famous Edinburgh pub, cosy & tight for space inside it nevertheless offers a good selection of real ales and good food. An oasis between the High Street and Market Street.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED4M17 - This is Fleshmarket Close made famous by Ian Rankin's novel of the same name.
Halfway down the close is the Halfway House, a famous Edinburgh pub, cosy & tight for space inside it nevertheless offers a good selection of real ales and good food. An oasis between the High Street and Market Street.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED4M18 - This is Fleshmarket Close made famous by Ian Rankin's novel of the same name.
Halfway down the close is the Halfway House, a famous Edinburgh pub, cosy & tight for space inside it nevertheless offers a good selection of real ales and good food. An oasis between the High Street and Market Street.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED4M2E - Edinburgh Trams is a tramway in Edinburgh, Scotland, operated by Transport for Edinburgh. It is a 14-kilometre (8.7 mi) line between York Place in New Town and Edinburgh Airport, with 15 stops.
Construction began in June 2008, but the opening was delayed. The scheme was costed at £375 million in 2003, but by May 2008, when contracts were signed, the cost had risen to £521 million. After extra interest payments are factored in, the final cost is expected to top £1 billion. The line opened on 31 May 2014.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED4M2N - Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls and bridges throughout the world. Banksy's work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist and founding member of the musical group Massive Attack.
Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. Banksy no longer sells photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but his public installations are regularly resold, often even by removing the wall they were painted on. Much of his work can be classified as temporary art. A small number of Banksy's works are officially, non-publicly, sold through an agency created by Banksy named Pest Control. Banksy's documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film. In 2014, he was awarded Person of the Year at the 2014 Webby Awards.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED4MPJ - Victoria Street with its historic architecture, elegant curve and colourful shop fronts is one of the city's most picturesque locations. It links Grassmarket to Castlehill
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED4MPR - Victoria Street with its historic architecture, elegant curve and colourful shop fronts is one of the city's most picturesque locations. It links Grassmarket to Castlehill
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED4MPT - Victoria Street with its historic architecture, elegant curve and colourful shop fronts is one of the city's most picturesque locations. It links Grassmarket to Castlehill
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXKFR - The Edinburgh Festival Theatre is a performing arts venue located on Nicolson Street in Edinburgh, Scotland used primarily for performances of opera and ballet, large-scale musical events, and touring groups. After its most recent renovation in 1994, it seats 1,915. It is one of the major venues of the annual summer Edinburgh International Festival and is the Edinburgh venue for the Scottish Opera and the Scottish Ballet.
The present theatre's location is Edinburgh's longest continuous theatre site, for there has been a theatre in that location since 1830. From being Dunedin Hall, the Royal Amphitheatre, Alhambra Music Hall, the Queen's Theatre, Pablo Fanque's Amphitheatre, and Newsome's Circus, the site became the Empire Palace Theatre, the first of the famous Moss Empires' chain, opening on 7 November 1892.
Designed by the great British theatre architect, Frank Matcham, (who built the London Coliseum, among others) its décor was lavish, with elephants with Nubian riders, nymphs and cherubs in abundance on the plasterwork, and it seated 3000 people on four levels.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXKG1 - The Edinburgh Festival Theatre is a performing arts venue located on Nicolson Street in Edinburgh, Scotland used primarily for performances of opera and ballet, large-scale musical events, and touring groups. After its most recent renovation in 1994, it seats 1,915. It is one of the major venues of the annual summer Edinburgh International Festival and is the Edinburgh venue for the Scottish Opera and the Scottish Ballet.
The present theatre's location is Edinburgh's longest continuous theatre site, for there has been a theatre in that location since 1830. From being Dunedin Hall, the Royal Amphitheatre, Alhambra Music Hall, the Queen's Theatre, Pablo Fanque's Amphitheatre, and Newsome's Circus, the site became the Empire Palace Theatre, the first of the famous Moss Empires' chain, opening on 7 November 1892.
Designed by the great British theatre architect, Frank Matcham, (who built the London Coliseum, among others) its décor was lavish, with elephants with Nubian riders, nymphs and cherubs in abundance on the plasterwork, and it seated 3000 people on four levels.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXKP5 - The Days and Fascia - Kenny Watson
Watson presents two works for the festival that combine techniques and materials from street art and fine art, creating overwhelming visual effects from found texts.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXKPD - The Days and Fascia - Kenny Watson
Watson presents two works for the festival that combine techniques and materials from street art and fine art, creating overwhelming visual effects from found texts.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXKPG - The Days and Fascia - Kenny Watson
Watson presents two works for the festival that combine techniques and materials from street art and fine art, creating overwhelming visual effects from found texts.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDXW9T - A wide view of the Old College buildings at the University of Edinburgh, photographed within the formal courtyard on South College Street in the heart of Edinburgh's Old Town. The neoclassical sandstone architecture, arranged around a rectangular lawn, is dominated by the central domed structure and symmetrical wings that frame the space. Stone balustrades, paved walkways and a traditional lamppost add depth and perspective, reinforcing the ordered and ceremonial nature of the historic university setting.
Old College is one of the most recognisable academic buildings in Scotland and has been central to the University of Edinburgh's identity since the eighteenth century. The architecture reflects Enlightenment ideals of reason, balance and civic purpose, qualities closely associated with Edinburgh's historical reputation as a centre of learning and intellectual life. The courtyard layout creates a sense of calm and enclosure, separating scholarly activity from the surrounding streets of the Old Town.
The image captures the continuity between past and present within a working university environment. While the buildings are steeped in history, they remain an active part of modern academic life, housing teaching spaces, offices and cultural venues. The absence of crowds allows the architectural form and materials to take visual precedence, emphasising the scale, craftsmanship and permanence of the institution.
This photograph is well suited for editorial use covering higher education, university life, historic architecture, Scottish culture and heritage, as well as commercial applications relating to education marketing, cultural tourism, academic publications and representations of European universities within historic urban settings.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDY2XK - The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.
It was the fourth university to be established in Scotland and the 6th in the United Kingdom, and is one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Edinburgh receives approximately 47,000 applications every year, making it the third most popular university in the UK by volume of applicants.
Entrance is intensely competitive, with offer chances of 27% in the 2010-2011 admissions cycle. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DG3884 - Former Scotsman Newspaper offices now a luxury hotel in the heart of Edinburgh
In the 1900's the North Bridge running between the New and Old Town's of Edinburgh was widened and as part of this expansion a 190 foot high tower was built, into which the Scotsman Newspaper moved their offices.
The building cost around £500,000 and after the rest of the North Bridge extension was completed teamed with the Carlton directly opposite, it formed a imposing entrance to the Old Town.
The direct access from Market Street to the building was an ideal distribution outlet for the papers to be packed directly onto the trains at Waverley Station straight from the printing house that took up the entire basement. Across the middle floors of the building which is now home to some of the Scotsman's most luxurious rooms and suites were originally used for the editorial offices. What is today a stunning 2 floor Penthouse suite complete with its own Sauna used to be the Pigeon lofts where the news was sent far and wide across Scotland.
The Scotsman Newspaper was regarded as radical when it was first published but over the years it became Scotland's National Newspaper. It first opened its doors to the locals of Edinburgh for advertising in 1831 and what is today the North Bridge Brasserie was the original reception and trading rooms. With its stunning marble pillars and ornate balcony this room has witnessed much bartering and haggling over advertising costs. Today this stunningly majestic room is home to the Scotsman's Brasserie and bar offering a truly Scottish menu, imaginative cocktails and one of Edinburgh's largest collections of rare whiskeys.
In 2001 the Newspaper moved to their own purpose built offices in Holyrood whilst the stunning building was renovated into The Scotsman Hotel. Now with 56 rooms and 12 suites the hotel retained its originality and quirky features and this, along with the 5 star service we endeavor to deliver offers visitors a unique experience.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DG389P - Former Scotsman Newspaper offices now a luxury hotel in the heart of Edinburgh
In the 1900's the North Bridge running between the New and Old Town's of Edinburgh was widened and as part of this expansion a 190 foot high tower was built, into which the Scotsman Newspaper moved their offices.
The building cost around £500,000 and after the rest of the North Bridge extension was completed teamed with the Carlton directly opposite, it formed a imposing entrance to the Old Town.
The direct access from Market Street to the building was an ideal distribution outlet for the papers to be packed directly onto the trains at Waverley Station straight from the printing house that took up the entire basement. Across the middle floors of the building which is now home to some of the Scotsman's most luxurious rooms and suites were originally used for the editorial offices. What is today a stunning 2 floor Penthouse suite complete with its own Sauna used to be the Pigeon lofts where the news was sent far and wide across Scotland.
The Scotsman Newspaper was regarded as radical when it was first published but over the years it became Scotland's National Newspaper. It first opened its doors to the locals of Edinburgh for advertising in 1831 and what is today the North Bridge Brasserie was the original reception and trading rooms. With its stunning marble pillars and ornate balcony this room has witnessed much bartering and haggling over advertising costs. Today this stunningly majestic room is home to the Scotsman's Brasserie and bar offering a truly Scottish menu, imaginative cocktails and one of Edinburgh's largest collections of rare whiskeys.
In 2001 the Newspaper moved to their own purpose built offices in Holyrood whilst the stunning building was renovated into The Scotsman Hotel. Now with 56 rooms and 12 suites the hotel retained its originality and quirky features and this, along with the 5 star service we endeavor to deliver offers visitors a unique experience.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DECX5W - 1914-1918
ADDISON , A , Lance Corporal , 1917
ADDISON , J , Private , 1917
AFFLECK , R B , Private , 1915
ALLAN , T , Private , 1917
ALLAN , W , Private , 1917
BAIGRIE , W , Sergeant , 1918
BAIRD , G A , Private , 1918
BALGARNIE , W , Gunner , 1917
BALLANTYNE , E O , Commander , 1915
BALLANTYNE , D , Private , 1918
BARCLAY , A , Private , 1917
BARRIE , A , Private , 1918
BELL , A H , Captain , 1915
BISSET , D , Private , 1916
BLAKE , A , Private , 1916
BRODIE , W , Private , 1916
BROWN , W B , Private , 1916
BROWN , W , Corporal , 1918
BROWN , J , Lieutenant , 1919
BURNETT , A H , Company Sergeant Major , 1915
CATHIE , J G , Lance Corporal , 1917
CATHIE , T , Private , 1918
CAVANAGH , J S , Sergeant , 1916
COMBE , T , Corporal , 1916
CORNWALL , J , Gunner , 1917
CRAIG , W T , Captain , 1918
CRAWFORD , G , Private , 1916
CRAWFORD , W W , Private , 1917
CRAWFORD , A S , Trooper , 1918
CRICHTON , J , Sergeant , 1916
CUMMING , A W , Corporal , 1915
CUNNINGHAM , J P , Private , 1916
CURRAN , T , Corporal , 1916
DALZIEL , F , Private , 1916
DALZIEL , D , Private , 1917
DARLING , J , Lance Sergeant , 1918
DAVIDSON , J , Private , 1915
DAVIDSON , R A , Able Seaman , 1917
DAVIDSON , T C , Private , 1918
DINGWALL , T B , Private , 1917
DIXON , D R , Private , 1915
DODDS , W , Private , 1917
DOUGLAS , J C , Private , 1916
DUNCAN , J , Private , 1916
DUNCAN , W B , Private , 1917
EWING , J , Private , 1916
EWING , W , Private , 1917
FAIRBAIRN , R , Lance Corporal , 1918
FALCONER , T , Private , 1916
FARRELL , M , Private , 1915
FORSYTH , W , Private , 1917
FORSYTH , A A , 2nd Lieutenant , 1918
FOSTER , L , Private , 1915
FRASER , H H , 2nd Lieutenant , 1917
FREELAND , G D , Gunner , 1918
GIRVAN , J , Private , 1916
GOODALL , D B , Private , 1915
GOUGH , W , Private , 1918
GRAHAM , A , Private , 1917
GRAY , E C M , Private , 1915
GRAY , J , Private , 1915
GRAY , T , Private , 1915
GRAY , G , Gunner , 1918
GRAY , G , Private , 1918
HAGGARTY , W , Gunner , 1917
HAIG , T , Private
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DG375F -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DECXB8 - Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day or Armistice Day) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty. This day, or alternative dates, are also recognised as special days for war remembrances in many non-Commonwealth countries. Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to recall the end of hostilities of World War I on that date in 1918. Hostilities formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, in accordance with the Armistice, signed by representatives of Germany and the Entente between 5:12 and 5:20 that morning. (At the 11th hour refers to the passing of the 11th hour, or 11:00 am) World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919.
The day was specifically dedicated by King George V on 7 November 1919 as a day of remembrance for members of the armed forces who were killed during World War I. This was possibly done upon the suggestion of Edward George Honey to Wellesley Tudor Pole, who established two ceremonial periods of remembrance based on events in 1917.
The Initial or Very First Armistice Day was held at Buckingham Palace commencing with King George V hosting a Banquet in Honour of The President of the French Republic during the evening hours of November 10 1919. The First Official Armistice Day was subsequently held on the Grounds of Buckingham Palace on the Morning of November 11th 1919. This would set the trend for a day of Remembrance for decades to come.
The red remembrance poppy has become a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem In Flanders Fields. These poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their brilliant red colour an appropriate symbol for the blood spilled in the war.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DECYB3 - The Kirk of the Canongate, or Canongate Kirk, serves the Parish of Canongate in Edinburgh's Old Town, in Scotland.
It is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The parish includes the Palace of Holyroodhouse and the Scottish Parliament.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED05H - Edinburgh-born poet Robert Fergusson achieved so much poetical success in his short life of twenty-four years that Robert Burns called him 'my elder brother in the muse'.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED0AD - Commissioned by
1st Battalion, The Royal Scots
(The Royal Regiment)
originally installed in the kirk at
Albuhera Barracks, Werl, Germany
Transferred to the Regimental Kirk, Canongate
(The Kirk of Holyrood House)
27th March 1994
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED0AY - MUSITONIK ENSEMBLE WANDERING VOICES II Hauntingly beautiful' (Herald). Fringe 2009's four-star concert Wandering Voices returns to Edinburgh. Led by two prize-winning Taiwanese musicians, Cheng-Ying Chuang (countertenor/Chinese lutenist) and Ya-Ting Wang (percussionist), Musitonik Ensemble is devoted to exploring musical genres and building their contemporary dialogues. Together with acclaimed sitarist (Indian plucked-string) Ryohei Kanemitsu and erhu (Chinese fiddle) player Tanghsuan Lo, Wandering Voices II soars from ancient Chinese melodies, Indian ragas, European baroque/classical music into the contemporary. Four adventurous soloists immerse themselves with each other's traditions to share a mesmerising journey through time and space. www.cchuang.net Tickets £15 /£12.50
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED0D8 - The Saltire Society was established in 1936 to encourage everything that might improve the quality of life in Scotland and restore the country to its proper place as a creative force in European civilisation.
It seeks to preserve all that is best in Scottish tradition and to encourage new developments which can strengthen and enrich the country's cultural life. It has wide ranging interests including history, literature, music, drama, architecture and planning and promotes excellence in many fields through a series of national awards.
The Society also seeks to revive the memory of famous Scots and to make the nation conscious of its heritage. It seeks to influence decision makers in Scotland through its committees. As well as working at national level the Society has members in Branches throughout Scotland, working to promote the Society's aims within their own communities.
Membership to the Society, is available for an annual fee,[1] to all individuals and organisations who support the aims of the Society.
The name is taken from the flag of Scotland, which has the form of a saltire.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED0TX - Edinburgh-born poet Robert Fergusson achieved so much poetical success in his short life of twenty-four years that Robert Burns called him 'my elder brother in the muse'.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED1B1 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED1G7 - A popular story in Edinburgh is that of Margaret (or Maggie) Dickson, a fishwife from Musselburgh, whose husband left, possibly press-ganged, to join the Royal Navy. Maggie had gone to work in an inn in the Borders, and was hanged in the Grassmarket in August 1724, at the age of 22 or 23, by hangman John Dalgliesh for murdering her illegitimate baby there by drowning it or placing it in the river Tweed at Kelso, shortly after the birth. After the hanging, a doctor declared Dickson dead, and her family argued with the medical students, who then were only allowed to dissect criminal corpses, so her body was taken back to Musselburgh on a cart. However, on the way there, the story was that her family went for a wake at an inn (possibly Sheep's Heid Inn, Duddingston) when they heard noises from the coffin as she awoke. Under Scots Law, her punishment had been carried out, so she could not be executed for a second time for the same crime (only later were the words until dead added to the sentence of hanging). Her resurrection was also to some extent seen as divine intervention, and so she was allowed to go free. In later life (and legend), she was referred to as hauf-hingit Maggie and attracted curiosity as she was seen back in the Grass-market in October 1724, with an item about a crowd forming to see her in the Scots Magazine. She remarried her husband (as death' had parted them) and lived another 40 years.
A poem in Scots appears in a book Quines by actress Gerda Stevenson
Hauf-hingit Maggie
Deith is wappin when it comes like birth, I ken I hae warstled throu, an focht wi baith. She wis blue, ma bairn, blue as the breast o a brid I seen oan the banks o the Tweed thon day
then grey, aa wrang, the naelstring windit ticht aroon her neck
I ettled tae lowse it, aince, twice, but it aye slippit ma hauns couldnae grup, ma mind skailt frae the jizzen fecht, ma mooth steekit: no tae scraich, no tae scraich, let nane hear
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED1GA - Since 2007 Mac Tours has operated a bus for Forth Tours providing departues from Waverley Bridge for their various tours and cruises of the Firth of Forth.[60] The bus used is a dedicated Plaxton President bodied Dennis Trident painted in a special yellow, blue and green Forth Tours livery.(XIL 1484).
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED1RF - There have been several town walls around Edinburgh, Scotland, since the 12th century. Some form of wall probably existed from the foundation of the royal burgh in around 1125, though the first building is recorded in the mid-15th century, when the King's Wall was constructed. In the 16th century the more extensive Flodden Wall was erected, following the Scots' defeat at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513. This was extended by the Telfer Wall in the early 17th century. The walls had a number of gates, known as ports, the most important being the Netherbow Port, which stood halfway down the Royal Mile. This gave access from the Canongate which was, at that time, a separate burgh.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DED3NW - Canongate Tolbooth is a historic landmark of the Old Town section of Edinburgh, Scotland (U.K.) built in 1591 as a tolbooth, that is, a courthouse, burgh jail and meeting place, for the, then, separate burgh of the Canongate. The building is now occupied by The People's Story Museum and is protected as a category A listed building
In 1875 the City Architect, Robert Morham completely restored and remodeled the exterior giving it back its medieval look (based on Gordon of Rothiemay's map of 1647). This work included remodeling the interior to create museum spaces.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DANJMG - An example of no on station ticketting at Slateford, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK EH14 1BX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DANJMR - Help point train information at Slateford Scotrail railway station near Edinburgh an un-manned station
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DANJNB - Help point train information at Slateford Scotrail railway station near Edinburgh an un-manned station
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DANJNT - Help point train information at Slateford Scotrail railway station near Edinburgh an un-manned station
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DANJRA - Multi-lingual sign in Slateford Railway Station in Edinburgh Scotland UK
In preparation for Scottish Independence, signs in Gaelic
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HRDJ - Autumn forest scene at Humbie Woods , East Lothian, Scotland UK showing bright red fall leaves and the natural forest, a short drive from Edinburgh
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 7843708318 - 'View a whole set of Fringe 2012 madness from Edinburgh Scotland here. If you do Twitter add me here.
August, always a mad busy crazy time in Edinburgh, during the festival and fringe, which seems to have grown even bigger than the tattoo and festival.
Jud Charlton pictured here is a London actor, comedian and ventiliquist, with his alta-ego Philis. A sort of Camden Chucky on sulphate.
Jud has featured in films like Chemical Wedding and has played Ian Dury in 'ABFCAP - The Life and Rhymes of Ian Dury' , playing one of my teen favourites. I still have a gold vinyl 'New Boots and Panties' up in the loft. Jud Charlton, walked out over alterations made to the script by the comedian Chris Langham after a dissagreement.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 event spanning 25 days totalling over 2,695 shows from 47 countries in 279 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August. The Fringe is a showcase for the performing arts, particularly theatre and comedy (which has seen substantial growth in recent years), although dance and music are also represented. In 2012, 36% of shows were comedy and 28% theatrical productions. Theatrical productions range from the classics of ancient Greece to William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and contemporary works. In 2012, 1,418 shows were having their world premiere.
The Fringe is an unjuried festival \u2013 with no selection committee, and therefore any type of performance may participate. The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival. In addition to ticketed, programmed events, the Festival has included a street fair, located primarily on the Royal Mile. The Festival is organized by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets, and offers advice to performers. Their offices are on the Royal Mile.
File under: street fringe fring2012 fringe2012 comedy show 2012fringe shows actors performers entertainers in Edinburgh dance free artists grainy gritty mono pictures
Enjoy this bit of brilliance here. 'Treat yourself to a small slice of liberty....'
These are my 2008-2015 images, view my most recent images at @HotpixUK-2019 - www.flickr.com/people/167831053@N02/ including my second 365 one a day project
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 7890217202 - 'View a whole set of Fringe 2012 madness from Edinburgh Scotland here. If you do Twitter add me here.
August, always a mad busy crazy time in Edinburgh, during the festival and fringe, which seems to have grown even bigger than the tattoo and festival.
What more do you need, a friend with a big puppet head to share your secrets with. I overheard the conversation 'Choose life, choose a job, choose a career driving trams....'
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 event spanning 25 days totalling over 2,695 shows from 47 countries in 279 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August. The Fringe is a showcase for the performing arts, particularly theatre and comedy (which has seen substantial growth in recent years), although dance and music are also represented. In 2012, 36% of shows were comedy and 28% theatrical productions. Theatrical productions range from the classics of ancient Greece to William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and contemporary works. In 2012, 1,418 shows were having their world premiere.
The Fringe is an unjuried festival \u2013 with no selection committee, and therefore any type of performance may participate. The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival. In addition to ticketed, programmed events, the Festival has included a street fair, located primarily on the Royal Mile. The Festival is organized by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets, and offers advice to performers. Their offices are on the Royal Mile.
File under: street fringe fring2012 fringe2012 comedy show 2012fringe shows actors performers entertainers in Edinburgh dance free artists grainy gritty mono pictures
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 7912932162 - 'View a whole set of Fringe 2012 madness from Edinburgh Scotland here. If you do Twitter add me here.
August, always a mad busy crazy time in Edinburgh, during the festival and fringe, which seems to have grown even bigger than the tattoo and festival.
No, not a typical Saturday night on any British high st, but ladies from the Threesome Theatre looking sexy to attract punters like flies to their flyers advertising 'Berlin Cabaret'. It was on 20-25th August 2012 at The Space On The Mile V39 (venue 39, you are due a Deuchars now arent you??).
As the blurb says 'as our emcee takes you on a journey of decadence and ignorance, let the cabaret girls and boys entertain you in our own slice of 1930's Berlin. Threesome theatre spotlights Berlins cabaret from the day the curtain went up in 1901 to the Nazi regime tore it down. Featuring throbbing music, enticing dancing and naughty original songs.
'Shocking, lewd satire wrapped up in a great performance....'
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 event spanning 25 days totalling over 2,695 shows from 47 countries in 279 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August. The Fringe is a showcase for the performing arts, particularly theatre and comedy (which has seen substantial growth in recent years), although dance and music are also represented. In 2012, 36% of shows were comedy and 28% theatrical productions. Theatrical productions range from the classics of ancient Greece to William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and contemporary works. In 2012, 1,418 shows were having their world premiere.
The Fringe is an unjuried festival \u2013 with no selection committee, and therefore any type of performance may participate. The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival. In addition to ticketed, programmed events, the Festival has included a street fair, located primarily on the Royal Mile. The Festival is organized by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets, and offers advice to performers. Their offices are on the Royal Mile.
File under: street fringe fring2012 fringe2012 comedy show 2012fringe shows actors performers entertainers in Edinburgh dance free artists grainy gritty mono pictures
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Picky with your food? Alegies, Vegetarian? August, always a mad busy crazy time in Edinburgh, during the festival and fringe, which seems to have grown even bigger than the tattoo and festival. There's plenty of vegetable based humour here, its a broad church!.
At venue 203, The Princes Mall, just next to Waverley bridge and railway station, this show was on throughout the festival 4-25th August, as part of the free fringe.
The question raised is 'Wheres the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?' and more importantly 'Why did he pick it'?
As the blurb says:
This highly intriguing work exposes the truth. A truth in which The Mafia, Ms Muffet, David Cameron, Cabbage Beards, a talking pea,The Man from Del Monte, Assasination attempts and sports vouchers for schools are all involved.
Surrealist, Realist, Thoughtful, Funny, Free.
A reall nice bloke too!
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 event spanning 25 days totalling over 2,695 shows from 47 countries in 279 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August. The Fringe is a showcase for the performing arts, particularly theatre and comedy (which has seen substantial growth in recent years), although dance and music are also represented. In 2012, 36% of shows were comedy and 28% theatrical productions. Theatrical productions range from the classics of ancient Greece to William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and contemporary works. In 2012, 1,418 shows were having their world premiere.
The Fringe is an unjuried festival \u2013 with no selection committee, and therefore any type of performance may participate. The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival. In addition to ticketed, programmed events, the Festival has included a street fair, located primarily on the Royal Mile. The Festival is organized by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets, and offers advice to performers. Their offices are on the Royal Mile.
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How do you take your horror? August, always a mad busy crazy time in Edinburgh, during the festival and fringe, which seems to have grown even bigger than the tattoo and festival. There's no shortage of victorian scaryness here!.
At Paradise in the Vault (venue 29) between the 21st &
27th August 2012 at 22:00 each day, Jack: A Rippers Tale walks you through a London autumn of terror.
As the blurb says:
Every new turn of this bewildering labyrinth reveals some fresh depth of social blackness, some strange and repulsive curiosity of human nature. What are we to do? Where are we to turn? These are the nightmares that haunt every citizen of Whitechapel and chill the spine of all London. With the police no closer to catching the culprit and no sign of the deparavity ceasing, the question is, who can we trust?
Different Device Theatre re-tell the disturbing ledgend that echos through the streets of Whitechapel history. Be thrown into the horror and misery that ruled the every day lives of London citizens during the Rippers Auumn of Terror.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 event spanning 25 days totalling over 2,695 shows from 47 countries in 279 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August. The Fringe is a showcase for the performing arts, particularly theatre and comedy (which has seen substantial growth in recent years), although dance and music are also represented. In 2012, 36% of shows were comedy and 28% theatrical productions. Theatrical productions range from the classics of ancient Greece to William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and contemporary works. In 2012, 1,418 shows were having their world premiere.
The Fringe is an unjuried festival \u2013 with no selection committee, and therefore any type of performance may participate. The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival. In addition to ticketed, programmed events, the Festival has included a street fair, located primarily on the Royal Mile. The Festival is organized by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets, and offers advice to performers. Their offices are on the Royal Mile.
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Now its political, meet the mask in front of the man. August, always a mad busy crazy time in Edinburgh, during the festival and fringe, which seems to have grown even bigger than the tattoo and festival. There's no shortage of scaryness and satire here!.
Was it a rare trip north to address the Scots nation to plead with Alex Salmond to not leave the union? Maybe a ploy to drum up more Scottish Tories. Famously as they say, there are more pandas at Edinburgh zoo than tory MP's up here.
Do let me know in the comments below what 'message you might leave for Mr Cameron'.
Did I leave a message, well how do you resist? I just wrote 'Keep your hands off the NHS you scoundrel, stop selling Britain by the pound....'
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 event spanning 25 days totalling over 2,695 shows from 47 countries in 279 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August. The Fringe is a showcase for the performing arts, particularly theatre and comedy (which has seen substantial growth in recent years), although dance and music are also represented. In 2012, 36% of shows were comedy and 28% theatrical productions. Theatrical productions range from the classics of ancient Greece to William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and contemporary works. In 2012, 1,418 shows were having their world premiere.
The Fringe is an unjuried festival \u2013 with no selection committee, and therefore any type of performance may participate. The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival. In addition to ticketed, programmed events, the Festival has included a street fair, located primarily on the Royal Mile. The Festival is organized by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets, and offers advice to performers. Their offices are on the Royal Mile.
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Ailments, snakeoil? This might be the one! August, always a mad busy crazy time in Edinburgh, during the festival and fringe, which seems to have grown even bigger than the tattoo and festival. There's no shortage of scaryness and satire here!.
The Mr and Mrs Clark Medicine Show aims to cure your everyday ailments and add a little colour to a bleak looking world. Mr and Mrs Clark intend to diagnose and heal unwell individuals, struggling couples and a despondent community with a creative approach to alternative medicine. They believe they have the power to cure and they aim to convince you. Described as \u2018Unpredictable. Full on. Hilarious\u2019 (South Wales Argus). Medicine Show follows the Clarks\u2019 film noir marriage therapy show, Nine, in engaging and promoting audience interaction. \u2018The Clarks make unique and astonishing performances\u2019 (Volcano Theatre Company). More on this link www.mrandmrsclark.co.uk .
The show was on at Venue 13. You can still catch them if you are quick 1st November - Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Box Office: 02920 636464
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 event spanning 25 days totalling over 2,695 shows from 47 countries in 279 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August. The Fringe is a showcase for the performing arts, particularly theatre and comedy (which has seen substantial growth in recent years), although dance and music are also represented. In 2012, 36% of shows were comedy and 28% theatrical productions. Theatrical productions range from the classics of ancient Greece to William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and contemporary works. In 2012, 1,418 shows were having their world premiere.
The Fringe is an unjuried festival \u2013 with no selection committee, and therefore any type of performance may participate. The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival. In addition to ticketed, programmed events, the Festival has included a street fair, located primarily on the Royal Mile. The Festival is organized by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets, and offers advice to performers. Their offices are on the Royal Mile.
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A politician not keen on Scottish independence , everyone in the UK from whatever country will surely have an opinion for him.
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Are you a fan of Wildian campishness? August, always a mad busy crazy time in Edinburgh, during the festival and fringe, which seems to have grown even bigger than the tattoo and festival. If you can't catch any Oscar Wilde here, then we are in trouble...
As the blurb says:
An impertinent epilogue to 'The Importance Of Being Earnest' by Robin Johnson (the writer of Stitched Up).
'There are certain rules for surviving a drawing-room farce. Look over your plans for the next few days. If they are harebrained, reconsider. If a case of humourous mistaken identity arises, politely correct it before it gets out of hand. Resist the temptation to entrust any crucial task to a comic buffoon. Avoid the company of country vicars, austere aunts, village policemen and crossdressers. Do not pretend that a living person is dead or vice versa.'
They were on at Space on North Bridge venue 36, 13-25th August 2012, more info at www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/in-a-handbag-darkly
What a super cross-dressing chap!
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 event spanning 25 days totalling over 2,695 shows from 47 countries in 279 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August. The Fringe is a showcase for the performing arts, particularly theatre and comedy (which has seen substantial growth in recent years), although dance and music are also represented. In 2012, 36% of shows were comedy and 28% theatrical productions. Theatrical productions range from the classics of ancient Greece to William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and contemporary works. In 2012, 1,418 shows were having their world premiere.
The Fringe is an unjuried festival \u2013 with no selection committee, and therefore any type of performance may participate. The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival. In addition to ticketed, programmed events, the Festival has included a street fair, located primarily on the Royal Mile. The Festival is organized by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets, and offers advice to performers. Their offices are on the Royal Mile.
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How do you like your horror? August, always a mad busy crazy time in Edinburgh, during the festival and fringe, which seems to have grown even bigger than the tattoo and festival. There's plenty of horror and mystery here from Shakespear to Freddie Kruger.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 event spanning 25 days totalling over 2,695 shows from 47 countries in 279 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August. The Fringe is a showcase for the performing arts, particularly theatre and comedy (which has seen substantial growth in recent years), although dance and music are also represented. In 2012, 36% of shows were comedy and 28% theatrical productions. Theatrical productions range from the classics of ancient Greece to William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and contemporary works. In 2012, 1,418 shows were having their world premiere.
The Fringe is an unjuried festival \u2013 with no selection committee, and therefore any type of performance may participate. The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival. In addition to ticketed, programmed events, the Festival has included a street fair, located primarily on the Royal Mile. The Festival is organized by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets, and offers advice to performers. Their offices are on the Royal Mile.
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Losing your religion? August, always a mad busy crazy time in Edinburgh, during the festival and fringe, which seems to have grown even bigger than the tattoo and festival.
With all those actors and buskers everywhere, nobody minds the Hare Krishna's snaking through. They fitted in rather well!
Sri Sri Khoda-Nitai Mayapura-sasha
ISKCON Scotland is based in Karuna Bhavan, Lesmahagow, which is between and slightly south of Edinburgh and Glasgow. The devotees preach throughout Scotland and Northern England, distributing books and running Namma Hatta programs and occasional festivals.
The scottish devotees are famous for their \u2018GOURANGA!\u2019 campaign.
Gouranga (the Golden one) is a name of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, an incarnation of Sri Krishna who preached the glories of the holy name (Hare Krishna) throughout India 500 years ago. The sound of \u2018Gouranga\u2019 is extremely potent spiritually, just like the Hare Krishna mantra, and whoever hears or chants this name becomes liberated.
Apart from the books of Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON Scotland can also supply various \u2018Gouranga!\u2019 branded merchandise such as mugs, toys and CDs.
Note: \u2018Gouranga\u2019 is the Scottish spelling of \u2018Gauranga\u2019.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 event spanning 25 days totalling over 2,695 shows from 47 countries in 279 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August. The Fringe is a showcase for the performing arts, particularly theatre and comedy (which has seen substantial growth in recent years), although dance and music are also represented. In 2012, 36% of shows were comedy and 28% theatrical productions. Theatrical productions range from the classics of ancient Greece to William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and contemporary works. In 2012, 1,418 shows were having their world premiere.
The Fringe is an unjuried festival \u2013 with no selection committee, and therefore any type of performance may participate. The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival. In addition to ticketed, programmed events, the Festival has included a street fair, located primarily on the Royal Mile. The Festival is organized by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets, and offers advice to performers. Their offices are on the Royal Mile.
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Arigato August, always a mad busy crazy time in Edinburgh, during the festival and fringe, which seems to have grown even bigger than the tattoo and festival. There's no shortage of scaryness and satire here!.
Aki is a Japanese street performer from Tokyo, just in Edinburgh to perform in the street. He was a friendly chap and was having a brilliant time.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 event spanning 25 days totalling over 2,695 shows from 47 countries in 279 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August. The Fringe is a showcase for the performing arts, particularly theatre and comedy (which has seen substantial growth in recent years), although dance and music are also represented. In 2012, 36% of shows were comedy and 28% theatrical productions. Theatrical productions range from the classics of ancient Greece to William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and contemporary works. In 2012, 1,418 shows were having their world premiere.
The Fringe is an unjuried festival \u2013 with no selection committee, and therefore any type of performance may participate. The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival. In addition to ticketed, programmed events, the Festival has included a street fair, located primarily on the Royal Mile. The Festival is organized by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets, and offers advice to performers. Their offices are on the Royal Mile.
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August, always a mad busy crazy time in Edinburgh, during the festival and fringe, which seems to have grown even bigger than the tattoo and festival. There's no shortage of scaryness and satire here!.
Echo and Narcissus @ Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012. From Rag and Bone Productions the Venue was theSpace on North Bridge. It was on until 18th August 2012 @ venue 36.
As the review says, 'Sometimes it is hard to tell image from reality until the illusion is shattered at the tap of a finger. Durham University\u2019s Rag &
Bone Productions use an exciting combination of physical theatre, drama and dance to bring you this dark and innovative take on a classic Greek myth. The tragic story of Echo and Narcissus follows the disastrous consequences of a man falling in love with his own reflection. Rag &
Bone successfully fuse visual spectacle with the best of storytelling to explore this tale of hurt, rejection, pride and vanity. Not to be missed!'
Narcissus, is a young man blessed with untold beauty, who spurns all amorous advances, be they from citizens, nymphs, or just about anyone who can appreciate the beauty of the perfect human form. Meanwhile, talkative forest nymph Echo is tasked by Zeus to distract his wife Hera with incredible stories while he has an affair. Hera finds out and curses Echo to be able to repeat only the ends of sentences spoken to her (hence her name, Echo).
She runs into Narcissus in a forest, he rejects her fumbled echoes and she wastes away until she is nothing but a voice. Narcissus rejects one final advance of an older man by the name of Ameinus and mocks him for his futile attempts, daring him to kill himself. Ameinus does so, but curses Narcissus beforehand, resulting in Artemis bewitching Narcissus to fall in love with the next person he sees.
As he is hunting in the woods, he stops to rest by a quiet pool in a grassy clearing and falls in love with his own reflection. At a loss, he plunges in to reach the young man but drowns. A small Narcissus flower is washed up on the shore afterwards, taking its name from him.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 event spanning 25 days totalling over 2,695 shows from 47 countries in 279 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August. The Fringe is a showcase for the performing arts, particularly theatre and comedy (which has seen substantial growth in recent years), although dance and music are also represented. In 2012, 36% of shows were comedy and 28% theatrical productions. Theatrical productions range from the classics of ancient Greece to William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and contemporary works. In 2012, 1,418 shows were having their world premiere.
The Fringe is an unjuried festival \u2013 with no selection committee, and therefore any type of performance may participate. The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival. In addition to ticketed, programmed events, the Festival has included a street fair, located primarily on the Royal Mile. The Festival is organized by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets, and offers advice to performers. Their offices are on the Royal Mile.
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August, always a mad busy crazy time in Edinburgh, during the festival and fringe, which seems to have grown even bigger than the tattoo and festival. There's no shortage of talent and satire here!.
Part of the Free Fringe, the New Zealand company Trick of the Light Theatre has travelled across the world to tell a wonderful story of maps and roads that exist only if you know where to look for them. And if you follow them, the consequences may be more real than you expected.
The starting point of the story is the paper roads of New Zealand \u2013 roads that were built and drawn in on several maps but never materialised as the money was missing. Conjuring up a visual imagery that switches between episodic temporaries in refreshing ways, The Road that Wasn\u2019t There imagines what would happen if one did indeed follow one of these paper roads off the edge of the real world.
The story centres on Maggie, who as a young girl follows one of these paper roads leading off behind the graveyard on her way to work for her family. She finds everything she has always wanted, but is drawn further and further away from the real world and into this wondrous world where time stands still. Performed through acting, puppetry and shadow theatre, the story is woven into a contemporary plot where her grown-up son is moving her to an old people\u2019s home to protect her from her fantasies. As the two stories unfold, we learn something both about reality and about responsibility, love, and the changes that have occurred between generations.
The Road That Wasn\u2019t There played at the Free Sisters venue until the 26 August as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, with the 2012 event spanning 25 days totalling over 2,695 shows from 47 countries in 279 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August. The Fringe is a showcase for the performing arts, particularly theatre and comedy (which has seen substantial growth in recent years), although dance and music are also represented. In 2012, 36% of shows were comedy and 28% theatrical productions. Theatrical productions range from the classics of ancient Greece to William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and contemporary works. In 2012, 1,418 shows were having their world premi\u00e8re.
The Fringe is an unjuried festival \u2013 with no selection committee, and therefore any type of performance may participate. The Fringe has often showcased experimental works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival. In addition to ticketed, programmed events, the Festival has included a street fair, located primarily on the Royal Mile. The Festival is organized by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets, and offers advice to performers. Their offices are on the Royal Mile.
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Two has many properties in mathematics. An integer is called even if it is divisible by 2. For integers written in a numeral system based on an even number, such as decimal and hexadecimal, divisibility by 2 is easily tested by merely looking at the last digit. If it is even, then the whole number is even. In particular, when written in the decimal system, all multiples of 2 will end in 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8.
Two is the smallest and the first prime number, and the only even one (for this reason it is sometimes called 'the oddest prime'). The next prime is three. Two and three are the only two consecutive prime numbers. 2 is the first Sophie Germain prime, the first factorial prime, the first Lucas prime, and the first Smarandache-Wellin prime
Despite being a prime, two is also a highly composite number, because it has more divisors than the number one. Two is the smallest highly composite number. The next highly composite number is four.
Vulgar fractions with 2 or 5 in the denominator do not yield infinite decimal expansions, as is the case with all other primes, because 2 and 5 are factors of ten, the decimal base.
Two is the base of the simplest numeral system in which natural numbers can be written concisely, being the length of the number a logarithm of the value of the number (whereas in base 1 the length of the number is the value of the number itself)
the binary system is used in computers.
The glyph used in the modern Western world to represent the number 2 traces its roots back to the Brahmin Indians, who wrote '2' as two horizontal lines. The modern Chinese and Japanese languages still use this method. The Gupta rotated the two lines 45 degrees, making them diagonal, and sometimes also made the top line shorter and made its bottom end curve towards the center of the bottom line.
Apparently for speed, the Nagari started making the top line more like a curve and connecting to the bottom line. The Ghubar Arabs made the bottom line completely vertical, and now the glyph looks like a dotless closing question mark. Restoring the bottom line to its original horizontal position, but keeping the top line as a curve that connects to the bottom line leads to our modern glyph.
Two is the atomic number of helium. Also the resin identification code used in recycling to identify high-density polyethylene.
Sir Jackie Stewart, who hails from Milton, unveiled this his most successful car, which has been loaned to the National Museum of Scotland for at least three years. It is dark blue with the number two. In the Tyrrell Ford he won eight championships.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6084981757 - 'R.E.M. - Nightswimming - Play this track here.
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'Nightswimming' is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was released in 1993 as the fifth single off the group's eighth album Automatic for the People.
'Nightswimming' is a ballad featuring singer Michael Stipe accompanied only by bassist Mike Mills on piano, a string arrangement by former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, and a prominent oboe by Deborah Workman in the latter part of the piece. Stipe sings about a group of friends who go skinny dipping at night, which draws from similar experiences in the band's early days.
The Cafe Royal is a bit of an institution in Edinburgh. as atmospheric as a bar and a place to eat at night as it is in the daytime.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HDN2 - The Canny Man's pub in Morningside is an Edinburgh institution established in 1871 and passed down through generations of the Kerr family. It is a free house, as free as the wind as Mr Kerr used to say, therefore it has no connection with any brewery and only sells the best of each brewers produce.
The public house serves food everyday from 12 - 3 pm and in the evenings from 6.30 - 9 pm (except Friday / Sunday nights). A snack menu is available till 5 pm. The food that is served is seafood and SMØRREBRØD sandwiches. Introduced many years ago, it has been tailor-made to suit customers needs, and freshly prepared each day, it is ideal as a drinker's meal.
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The Lewis Chessmen (or Uig Chessmen, named after the bay where they were found) are a group of 78 12th-century chess pieces, most of which are carved in walrus ivory. Discovered in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, they may constitute some of the few complete, surviving medieval chess sets, although it is not clear if a set as originally made can be assembled from the pieces. They are owned and exhibited by the British Museum in London, which has 67 of the original pieces, and the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, which has the remaining 11 pieces.
A bishop is shown here when the pieces came back to Lewis for a short visit. Alex MacDonald, convener of Western Isles Council, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, welcomed the exhibition, which will ran through summer 2011 until the 12th September.
He said: 'The enigma of the Lewis Chessmen has intrigued and puzzled those who have viewed these inscrutable faces in the last 200 years or so. 'This will give our own community and visitors the opportunity to come face-to-face with faces which are over 800 years old.'
Pieces including a knight, king, queen and bishop were also on display at Uig Museum on 13 September for one day. Curators from National Museums Scotland and the British Museum were present to answer any queries from visitors.
The chessmen are one of the most significant archaeological discoveries ever made in Scotland.
The chessmen were probably made in Norway, perhaps by craftsmen in Trondheim, in the 12th century, although some scholars have suggested other sources in the Nordic countries. During that period the Outer Hebrides, along with other major groups of Scottish islands, were ruled by Norway.
According to Dr. Alex Woolf, director of the Institute for Medieval Studies of the University of St. Andrews, there are a number of reasons for believing the chess pieces probably came from Trondheim: a broken queen piece in a similar style found in an excavation of the archbishop's palace (it appeared the piece was broken as it was being made), the presence of wealthy people in Trondheim able to pay craftsmen for the high-quality pieces, similar carving in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, the excavation in Trondheim of a kite-shaped shield similar to shields on some of the pieces and a king piece of similar design found on Hitra Island, near the mouth of Trondheim Fjord. Woolf has said that the armour worn by the chess figures includes 'perfect' reproductions of armour worn at the time in Norway.
Some historians believe that the Lewis chessmen were hidden (or lost) after some mishap occurred during their carriage from Norway to wealthy Norse towns on the east coast of Ireland, like Dublin. The large number of pieces and their lack of wear may suggest they were the stock of a trader or dealer in such pieces. Along with the chess pieces, there were 14 plain round tablemen for the game of tables and one belt buckle, all made of ivory, making a total of 93 artifacts.
On bishops, The Church of England today has dropped its prohibition on gay clergy in civil partnerships becoming bishops. The announcement, from the Church's House of Bishops, would allow gay clergy to become bishops if they promise to be celibate.
Conservative evangelical Anglicans say they will fight the move in the Church's ruling general synod.
The issue has split the church since 2003 amid a row over gay cleric Jeffrey John becoming Bishop of Reading. Mr John, now Dean of St Albans, was forced to withdraw from the role shortly after having initially accepted it, following protests from traditionalists.
He was also a candidate for Bishop of Southwark in 2010 but was rejected. Evidence emerged that this was because of his sexual orientation. The Church of England has already agreed to allow people in civil partnerships to become clergy, provided they promised they would remain celibate.
I am not so sure that Norsemen had this issue to deal with. It was probably a simpler world back then!
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5506924407 - 'Charlotte Street - 'Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' - Play this track here.
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This is certainly a shop I would expect to find on 'Charlotte Street'.
Rattlesnakes was the debut album released in 1984 by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. The band formed in Glasgow and were a great success in the second half of the 1980's. The band were formed whilst Cole (who was born in Derbyshire, England) was studying at the University of Glasgow. After signing to Polydor Records, the band had a Top 40 UK hit with their debut single 'Perfect Skin' in Spring 1984.
The follow-up album, Easy Pieces, was produced by Clive Langer (ex Deaf School guitarist) &
Alan Winstanley (who had previously produced Madness, The Teardrop Explodes and Elvis Costello and the Attractions). Released in November 1985, the album was a much quicker commercial success than its predecessor (entering the UK album chart at no 5 and certified Gold within a month). The singles 'Brand New Friend' and 'Lost Weekend' were the band's first and only UK Top 20 hits (charting 19 and 17 respectively).
To track down some more Lloyd Cole, checkout 'Live at the BBC', volumes 1 and 2 (2007), which contains BBC broadcasts of live shows between 1984 and 1986.
Some trivia about Charlotte St, nothing to do with Lloyd Cole. Theresa Berkley was an early 19th century dominatrix who ran a brothel in at 28 Charlotte Street in London (now 84-94 Hallam Street), specialising in flagellation. Well I never!
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5565273647 - 'Road - 'The Levellers' - Play this track here..
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The Levellers are an English rock band, founded in 1988 and based in Brighton, England. Their musical style is was influenced by punk and traditional/folk music. It is unclear whether the band got its name from a democratic faction of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army
or according to guitarist, Simon Friend, was chosen from a dictionary.
They are Mark Chadwick, Jeremy Cunningham, Charlie Heather, Simon Friend, Jonathan Sevink and Matt Savage. Originally, all of the band's earnings being put together in a fund from which the members were paid the same amount every day.
1991 saw the release of their second album, Levelling the Land, the source of this track. The LP was a massive success, entering the charts at number 14. The anthemic single 'One Way', despite not reaching the Top 40, became a popular song and live favourite for years to come among the travelling and indie community. Levelling the Land is often cited as an all-time classic amongst people who were students or travellers in the early 1990s.
The band are still active. For a good starting point, track down 'One Way of Life: The Very Best of The Levellers'. Tell 'em I sent you :-)
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During the Jacobite rising of 1745, Edinburgh was briefly occupied by Jacobite forces before their march into England. Following their ultimate defeat at the Battle of Culloden, near Inverness, there was a period of reprisals and pacification, largely directed at the Catholic Highlanders.
In Edinburgh the Hanoverian monarch attempted to gain favour by supporting new developments to the north of the castle, naming streets in honour of the King and his family
George Street, Frederick Street, Hanover Street and Princes Street shown in this image at dusk, named in honour of George III's two sons.
The historic centre of Edinburgh is divided into two by the broad green swath of Princes Street Gardens. To the south the view is dominated by Edinburgh Castle, perched atop the extinct volcanic crag, and the long sweep of the Old Town trailing after it along the ridge. To the north lies Princes Street and the New Town. The gardens were begun in 1816 on bogland which had once been the Nor Loch.
One of the Edinburgh tramlines can be seen on the right. Edinburgh Trams is a forthcoming tramway system which is currently under construction in Edinburgh, Scotland. It will be the first tram system in Edinburgh since the city\u2019s previous network, Edinburgh Corporation Tramways, shut down in 1956.
The new tram system was originally scheduled to come into operation in July 2011, but the estimated completion date is now 2014, and will initially consist of one line running east-west across the city. Further extensions are planned. Originally budgeted at a cost of \u00a3375 million in 2003, the tram system is now anticipated to cost over \u00a3600 million.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4983948371 - 'Common People - 'Pulp' - Play this track here.
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Whatever happened to Pulp?
Pulp were an indy band formed in Sheffield way back in 1978. They split in 2002, they were Jarvis Cocker (vox &
guitar), the lovely Candida Doyle (keyboards), Mark Webber (guitar), Steve Mackey (bass), Nick Banks (drums) and Richard Hawley (guitar, backing vox).
Fame was slow, finally arriving with the 'Different Class' album in 1995, which reached the number one spot in the UK Albums Chart. Different Class spawned four top 10 singles, including 'Common People' and 'Sorted for E's &
Wizz', both of which reached number two in the UK Singles Chart.
Pulp's musical style during this period consisted of disco influenced pop-rock coupled with 'kitchen sink drama'-style lyrics. Jarvis Cocker and the band became major figures in the Britpop movement, and were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 1994 for His 'n' Hers
they won the prize in 1996 for Different Class. They headlined the Pyramid Stage of the Glastonbury Festival. In 1996 I saw them at the V festival with Elastica, Cast &
Gary Numan.
The song is about those who were perceived by the songwriter as wanting to be 'like common people' and who ascribe glamour to poverty. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as slumming or 'class tourism'.
The inspiration for the song came from a Greek fellow student, Ambrosia Sakkadas, Pulp singer/songwriter Jarvis Cocker knew at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Taking this inspiration, the narrator explains that his female acquaintance can 'never be like common people', because even if she gets a flat where 'roaches climb the wall' ultimately, 'if [she] called [her] dad he could stop it all', in contrast to the true common people who can only 'watch [their] lives slide out of view'. In his lyric Cocker embellished the situation for dramatic effect - in real life the woman in question said she 'wanted to move to Hackney and live like 'the common people'', but in the song her character also declares: 'I want to sleep with common people like you.'.
The chorus melody apparently has similarities to the ELP track 'Fanfare for the Common Man'. To totally mash your head up, click here to hear the William Shatner cover version.
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Its often said that in the UK most news stories are fundamentally about class, while in the states they are generally about race. I am certain there is an element of truth in this.
From a sociological point of view the class system in Britain changed substantially during the 'Thatcher Era'. Home ownership (on mortgage) was extended throughout the middle classes and below. With the loss of the majority of traditional working class industrial jobs from the market, a new 'underclass', below working class emerged. The 'underclass', defined as unemployed relying on state benefits, is the new bottom of the British class system.
In Britain people considered of lower social standing can earn high incomes, but an individual's social class is still largely assessed by their parent's mannerisms, education etc. People watching late evening in any Uk city can tell a lot about people.
Perhaps if people could afford it, they would have been collected by their butler or manservent, or boarded a taxi, rather than wait for the 86 First Buses Charlotte Square service to Birkendale.
Its clean and cheap and theres one every half an hour. Unfortunately, I had given my domestics that evening off, so I joined them myself after snapping off this five shot 180 degree joiner.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4673882039 - 'This is a true Morningside monument full of unique character. From the outside it looks very unassuning like any other boozer. Once called 'The Volunteer' the Canny Mans has been in the Watson-Kerr family for getting on for 80 years
Inside, past the 'No trainers, No music, No cameras etc' signs, you enter a world of glorious clutter. Clocks, typewriters, ships, umbrellas and tools screwed to the walls. These have been collected over the years and cover every room, of which there are a few. It does make for a very homely and welcoming place.
There is a menu based on quite a large choice of Scandinavian Smorrebrod sandwiches. On this evening I was in there, the bar had a good selection of real ales and I opted for a Deuchers (when in Rome as they say...). There was no shortage of whiskies and you can buy champagne by the glass at a fiver.
In my book its deservidly up there in my premier league of British pubs, certainley unforgettable!
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4584152142 - 'The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582, is an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland. It was the fourth university to be established in Scotland, making it one of the ancient universities of the United Kingdom...
The university is consistently placed amongst the best in the world, ranking 20th in the 2009 THES - QS World University Rankings, as well as 17th in the current Global University Ranking. THES - QS World University Rankings has consistently ranked University of Edinburgh as the best university in Scotland, and one of the five best universities in UK.
The university played an important role leading the city of Edinburgh to its reputation as a chief intellectual centre during the Age of Enlightenment, and helped give the city the nickname of the Athens of the north.
Alumni of the university include some of the major figures of modern history. The founding of the University is attributed to Bishop Robert Reid of St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney, who left the funds on his death in 1558 that ultimately provided the University's endowment. The University was established by a Royal Charter granted by James VI in 1582, becoming the fourth Scottish university at a time when the neighbour neighbour to the south, England, had only two..
The Guardian University Guide 2008 ranked the University of Edinburgh as follows:..7th in the UK overall.1st in the UK for computer science.1st in the UK for physics.1st in the UK for Nursing.2nd in the UK for medicine..A very outstanding achievment and the uni resides in some outstanding architectural monuments, such as Old College as seen here..
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4524488474 - '12 and 14 Nicolson Square are lovely old buildings in the old town of Edinburgh with distinctive old faded painted sign remnants in red. The square originally contained the properties of Sir James Nicolson, back pre-1800. Older maps reveal this at that time to probably be the extent of the city. Nearby Cabbagehall and Turnip Fields would have once produced food but were built over as the metropolis expanded. Nicholas Martinot looks to have been a prominent manufacturer of baskets and importer of other goods from 1890 or so onwards.
The text on the faded paint advertise 'Fancy Leathergoods' , 'Basket Manufacture', Rugs, Mats, walking Sticks, Hardware and Woodenware.
The Edinburgh Gazette of 1890 and 1892 note two 'bankrupt sequestrations' in which Martinot was elected joint commissioners. In issue 10128 (25th Feb 1890) page 180 they are involved in sequestration of Daniel S Johnston, fancy goods merchant at 103 Kirkgate and 131 Great Junction St Leith. In another issue 10363 the sequestration of a hardware, toy and Smallware merchant from 272 Canongate and 15 St Mary Street is involved ( www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/10128/pages/180 &
www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/10364/pages/670 ).
The building is now used by Edinburgh University, School of Arts, Culture &
Environment and the facilty is named Alison House.
(2010 week 13)
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF7D5W - The interior of the Guildford Arms with drinkers, traditional pub,West Register Place, Edinburgh, Lothians, Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4447528033 - 'The Scottish Parliament Office Building. As important as the St Andrews cross to many people in the far north of the UK and strangely linked by a Hexadecimal number '0065BD'. Although I have heard it said that folk in the far islands of the north and west feel as distant from Holyrood as from Westminster. Living in north west england I can identify a little with that sentiment.
A saltire, Saint Andrew's Cross, or crux decussata is said to be the one on which St Andrew was martyred. The Cross of Burgundy contains a varient too. It is quite common to see it flying from Scottish Government buildings every day from 8am until sunset. Its use appears to date from around 1180. Although it was the Parliament of Scotland that decreed in 1385 that Scottish soldiers wear a white Saint Andrew's Cross on their person. This was both front and back to identify them.
The blues used varied on shades of dyes etc and many variations evolved over the years. There were calls to standardise the shade of blue. In 2003 a committee of the Scottish Parliament met to examine a petition that the Scottish Government adopt the Pantone 300 colour as a standard. How very Photoshop(!) This blue is of a lighter shade than the Pantone 280 of the Union Jack Flag. Having taken advice from a number of sources, including the office of the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the committee recommended that the optimum shade of blue for the Saltire be Pantone 300. Nurds and pub quiz experts may want to know that Pantone 300 is #0065BD expressed as hexadecimal web colours.
(2010 week 10)
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Keywords: Old signwriting on university buildings at 12 Nicholson Square,Edinburgh City,Lothians,Scotland,UK,gotonysmith,sign,writing,writting,street,dramatic,ghost,12,and,14,Nicolson,Square,are,lovely,old,buildings,in,the,old,town,of,Edinburgh,with,distinctive,old,faded,painted,sign,remnants,in,red.,12,and,14,Nicolson,Square,are,lovely,old,buildings,in,the,old,town,of,Edinburgh,with,distinctive,old,faded,painted,sign,remnants,in,red.,The,square,originally,contained,the,properties,of,Sir,James,Nicolson,back,pre-1800.,Older,maps,reveal,this,at,that,time,to,probably,be,the,extent,of,the,city.,Nearby,Cabbagehall,and,Turnip,Fields,would,have,once,produced,food,but,were,built,over,as,the,metropolis,expanded.,Nicholas,Martinot,looks,to,have,been,a,prominent,manufacturer,of,baskets,and,importer,of,other,goods,from,1890,or,so,onwards.,The,text,on,the,faded,paint,advertise,Rugs,Mats,walking Sticks,Hardware and Woodenware.,gotonysmith,Edinburg,Fancy Leathergoods,Basket Manufacture,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF1333 - Old signwriting on university buildings at 12 Nicholson Square, Edinburgh City, Lothians, Scotland , UK
12 and 14 Nicolson Square are lovely old buildings in the old town of Edinburgh with distinctive old faded painted sign remnants in red.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4259536947 - 'A nice spot coming up from the bottom of the Grassmarket with a view of Lothians Edinburgh castle, close to the place of the Flodden wall. Some call it school steps I think. The street lamps have recently been changed to something more in keeping with a 'Sherlock Holmes in Edinburgh' period type feel.
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Taken here between Christmas and New Year on the night of Hogmanay, the snow and ice of December give it a nice lightness, even at dusk. This is the calm before the storm as the party starts in Princes St and the gardens as the stage fires up to welcome in the new years celebrations. 2009 2010 2011 2012. Everyone needs a street party ticket and a wristband to enter the city arena area, unlike many years ago when it was a bit more easy going. Now there is a midnight torchlight procession from Parliament Square via the historic Lothian Edinburgh Royal Mile to the Son et Lumi\u00e9re and fireworks finale on Calton Hill. On Edinburg new years day the the loony dook is the place to take a swim at South Queensferry in the river Forth in the shadow of the Forth Railway Bridge over to Fife.
Edinburgh Castle is a castle fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, from its position atop the volcanic Castle Rock. Human habitation of the site is dated back as far as the 9th century BC, although the nature of early settlement is unclear. There has been a royal castle here since at least the reign of David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
As one of the most important fortresses in the Kingdom of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle has been involved in many historical conflicts, from the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century, up to the Jacobite Rising of 1745, and has been besieged, both successfully and unsuccessfully, on several occasions. From the later 17th century, the castle became a military base, with a large garrison. Its importance as a historic monument was recognised from the 19th century, and various restoration programmes have been carried out since.
Few of the present buildings pre-date the Lang Siege of the 16th century, when the medieval fortifications were largely destroyed by artillery bombardment. The notable exception is St Margaret's Chapel, the oldest surviving building in Edinburgh, which dates from the early 12th century. Among other significant buildings of the castle are the Royal Palace, and the early-16th-century Great Hall. The castle also houses the Scottish National War Memorial, and National War Museum of Scotland.
A panorama from Scotland's Western Isles www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3890901488/
Another dusk shot from close to Edinburgh www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4241055295/
A similar shot, a panorama this time from Liverpool and the river mersey www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4392932861/
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Keywords: Jenners,Xmas,Christmas,tree,Edinburgh,Scotland,Princes,St,Street,shop,shopping,store,department,december,Schotland,l'Ecosse,Ecosse,Schottland,\u03a3\u03ba\u03c9\u03c4\u03af\u03b1,la,Scozia,\u30b9\u30b3\u30c3\u30c8\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9,\uc2a4\ucf54\ud2c0\ub780\ub4dc,\u0428\u043e\u0442\u043b\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0438\u044f,Escocia,winter,Edinburghe,wide,superwide,tonysmith,tony,smith,Panoramique,int\u00e9ressant,join,joiner,stitch,stitcher,autostitch,auto,pano,imagen,panor\u00e1mica,image,panoramisches,Bild,edinbrugh,stitched,panorama,joined,images,widescreen,\u043f\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0430,\u30d1\u30ce\u30e9\u30de,\u5168\u666f,\ud55c\uad6d\uc5b4,hotpix!,Edinburg,#tonysmithhotpix,edimburgh
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4260152762 - 'A joiner of nine or so FujiFinepix S1500 shots, in two layers from the second floor of Jenners.
Another Edinburgh shot here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3811386220/
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4259384265 - 'Very cold cows near Dalkeith palace park grounds.
Another snowy Dalkeith shot here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4241055295/
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Keywords: dusk,night,shot,tripod,edinburgh,scotland,fair,fayre,princes,street,st,gardens,xmas,christmas,jenners,store,department,shop,shopping,tourist,travel,UK,britain,winter,december,hogmanay,scottish,scots,escotia,neon,lights,bright,highway,road,light,stream,lightstream,edinbrugh,hotpix!,Edinburg,#tonysmith,#tonysmithhotpix,edimburgh
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4503392149 - 'The Xmas fayre on Edinburgh's main shopping Street, Princes St. Now becoming quite a regular annual event opposite the Jenners department store and the monument.
Here the fairground attraction is shown at Dusk.
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Keywords: Allan,Ramsey,statue,&,Edinburgh,Castle,at,Dusk,just,before,night,fall,from,Princes,Street,Scotland,UK,gotonysmith,shot,nightshot,scottish,independance,independence,home,rule,devolution,parliament,SNP,national,party@Hotpixuk,GotonySmith,hilltop,historic,history,historical,icon,iconic,kingdom,landmark,landmarks,lowlands,lothian,medieval,monument,old,outcrop,rock,rocky,Royal,family,scotch,scotland,scots,scottish,sight,sights,scenic,sightseeing,skies,sky,skyline,summer,sun,sunny,sunshine,stronghold,tour,tattoo,tourism,tourists,town,towns,towering,uk,united,white,unesco world heritage,Unesco,old town,Edinburgh Castle,dramatic sky,moody,mody sky,dramatic sky,summer,blue,blue sky,lush,green,trees,vegetation,clouds,Edinburg,Castel,Scots,Scottish,scotland,nationalistic,stone,tour,travel,tourist,attraction,Royal Family,buy pictures of Edinburgh,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Edinburgh Castle
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEMWCA - Allan Ramsey statue & Edinburgh Castle at Dusk just before night fall from Princes Street, Scotland, UK
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Keywords: Edinburgh,Graffito,and,old,person,inner,city,scotland,lonely,UK,urban,street,scene,loneliness,cold,icy,ice,frozen,snow,United,Kingdom,shelter,looking,for,warmth,gotonysmith,color,colour,wall,painting,art,gotonysmith,spray art sprayart street streetart tag rags tagging urban decay,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEMWY5 - An elderly lady navigates through the graffiti, along the ice and the snow in winter.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,winter fair,Christmas amusement rides,Scotland capital city,Christmas market Scotland,swing carousel,festive illumination,Christmas,winter,tourism,travel,seasonal events,city break,festive atmosphere,public celebrations,urban leisure,family attractions,nightlife,European capitals,cultural events,holiday season,editorial travel,city life,Edinburgh,Scotland,United Kingdom,UK capital,Princes Street,city centre Edinburgh,winter event,seasonal attraction,Christmas lights,illuminated rides,fairground at night,winter tourism,festive season,people at fair,motion blur
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEMX1N - A festive winter dusk scene at the Edinburgh Christmas fair in Princes Street Gardens, showing brightly illuminated amusement rides glowing against a deep blue evening sky in the heart of Scotland's capital city. The image features a traditional helter skelter tower and a swing carousel decorated with red, white and warm golden lights, creating a strong visual contrast with the surrounding darkness and bare winter trees. The lights spill across the gardens, reflecting the lively atmosphere of Edinburgh's annual winter festival.
In the background, historic city centre buildings along Princes Street rise above the gardens, anchoring the fair firmly within Edinburgh's urban landscape. The location, close to the former Jenners department store, is one of the city's most recognisable public spaces and becomes a focal point each winter for seasonal events, attracting residents and tourists alike. Blurred figures moving through the scene suggest crowds in motion, reinforcing the sense of energy, cold-weather activity and festive excitement typical of the Christmas period.
Princes Street Gardens sits between Edinburgh's Old Town and New Town and regularly hosts major civic celebrations. During the winter months it is transformed into a temporary amusement park and Christmas attraction, symbolising the city's role as a cultural and tourism destination during the festive season. The combination of fairground rides, historic architecture, winter trees and twilight lighting conveys themes of celebration, seasonal leisure, urban life and tourism in a European capital city.
This image is well suited for editorial use relating to Christmas, winter festivals, city tourism, seasonal events, public celebrations and Scottish urban life, as well as commercial applications requiring atmospheric winter imagery from a major UK city.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5004660069 - 'Paint It Black - 'The Rolling Stones' - Play this track here.
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This is one band that crop up at least three times a week on my ipod, generally early stuff like this or from the 'Miss You' 'Some Girls' era.
'Paint It, Black' is a song by The Rolling Stones, released on Friday 13 May 1966 as the first single from their fourth album Aftermath. It was originally titled 'Paint It Black' without a comma. Keith Richards has stated that the comma was added by the record label, Decca. It was a number one hit in the UK and USA.
The song began with Wyman playing organ at a recording session, in parody of the group's former co-manager Eric Easton, who had been an organist. Charlie Watts accompanied the organ by playing a vaguely Middle Eastern drum part
Watts' drum pattern became the basis for the final song. Brian Jones contributed the song's signature sitar riff (having taught himself to play after a visit with George Harrison), and Jagger contributed the lyrics, seemingly about a man mourning his dead girlfriend. Both electric and acoustic guitars and the background vocals are provided by Richards. The piano is played by Jack Nitzsche.
The track has been extensively covered and I must have about five different versions of it, including WASP, U2, The Standells and The Residents (do you remember them?).
To get to know The Stones, you could do worse than start at 'Forty Licks'. Here you get a taster of every era, as usual, tell 'em I sent you :-)
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Here's something you rarely see, but I guess someone needs to have a blank canvas sometimes eh?
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Keywords: Scots,Parliament,Debating,Chamber,Panorama,Interior,Architecture,Holyrood,Scotland,UK,Edinburgh,indoors,pano,Miralles,Enric,scottish,scotch,fisheye,10mm,government,building,wood,wooden,Architect,wide,angle,wideangle,wideshot,20mm,lens,365days,Schotland,l'Ecosse,Ecosse,Schottland,\u03a3\u03ba\u03c9\u03c4\u03af\u03b1,la,Scozia,\u30b9\u30b3\u30c3\u30c8\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9,\uc2a4\ucf54\ud2c0\ub780\ub4dc,\u0428\u043e\u0442\u043b\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0438\u044f,Escocia,Edinburghe,tonysmith,tony,smith,Panoramique,int\u00e9ressant,join,joiner,stitch,stitcher,autostitch,auto,sigma,wide angle lens,buildings,built,imagen,panor\u00e1mica,image,panoramisches,Bild,hotpicks,hotpix,hotpics,hot,pix,pics,edinbrugh,Edinburg,tony smith photography,tdktonysmith,edimburgh
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3811386220 - 'I had another try at this, with a tripod. Two shots with a 10mm lens joined as a panorama, hence some cutoff.
The debating chamber contains a shallow elliptical horseshoe of seating for the MSPs, with the governing party or parties sitting in the middle of the semicircle and opposition parties on either side, similar to other European legislatures. Such a layout is intended to blur political divisions and principally reflects the desire to encourage consensus amongst elected members. This is in contrast to the 'adversarial' layout reminiscent of other Westminster style national legislatures, including the House of Commons, where government and opposition sit apart and facing one another
The most notable feature of the chamber is the roof. The roof is supported by a structure of laminated oak beams joined with a total of 112 stainless steel connectors (each slightly different), which in turn are suspended on steel rods from the walls.
Such a structure enables the debating chamber to span over 30 metres (100 ft) without any supporting columns. In entering the chamber, MSPs pass under a stone lintel\u2014the Arniston Stone\u2014that was once part of the pre-1707 Parliament building, Parliament House. The use of the Arniston Stone in the structure of the debating chamber symbolises the connection between the historical Parliament of Scotland and the present day Scottish Parliament.
Note that photographs cannot be taken while parliament is in session.
On 2 March 2006, a beam in the roof of the debating chamber swung loose from its hinges during a debate, resulting in the evacuation of the debating chamber and the suspension of parliamentary business. Parliament moved to other premises while the whole roof structure was inspected and remedial works were carried out. The structural engineers, Arup, stated that the problem with the collapsed beam was entirely due to the failure of one bolt and the absence of another. There was no design fault. The engineers concluded, in a report to MSPs, that the damage is likely to have been done during construction work on the chamber roof, in the latter phases of the project. The report also indicated that whilst one of the bolts was missing, the other was broken and had damaged threads commensurate with being over tightened or jammed, which twisted the head off, or came close to doing so.
Another Lothians shot here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4241055295/
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Keywords: Young Lovers at Calton Hill,Edinburgh,Lothian,Scotland,UK,sitting,on,the,neo-classical,Greek,style,monuments,gotonysmith,carlton,hill,caltonhill,carltonhill,loving,hug,hugs,hugging,Caltoun,couple,people,boy,girl,partner,partners,Calton Hill is the headquarters of the Scottish Government,which is based at St Andrews House,on the steep southern slope of the hill,with the Scottish Parliament Building,and other key buildings,for,example,Holyrood,Palace,lying,near,the,foot,of,the,hill.,The,hill,also,includes,several,iconic,monuments,and,buildings,the National Monument,Nelsons Monument,the Dugald Stewart Monument,the,New,Parliament,House,(the,Royal,High,School,the,Robert,Burns,Monument,the Political Martyrs' Monument and the City Observatory,gotonysmith,Tour,tourist,tourism,tourist,attraction,Scotland,Capital,City,Scots,Scottish,icon,iconic,@Hotpixuk,HotpixUk,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of,Tourist Attraction,city Centre
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0NPW - Young Lovers at Calton Hill, Edinburgh , Lothian , Scotland , UK sitting on the neo-classical Greek style monuments
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3813000608 - 'Indian theatre and musical group seen in high street, Edinburgh festival scotland.
I had the impression it was father and son. Both had turbans and beards / facial hair.
More festival fun www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3834522123/ and another type of event www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4318167727/
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,capital city,Edinburgh Alexander and bucephalus statue,Royal Mile,Edinburgh,Scotland,UK,and,1832,1883,1884,Edinburgh statue,woke,culture-wars,culture wars,war on woke,Statue dAlexandre et Bucéphale,John Steell,1804""1891,at,City Chambers,High Street,Alexander (356 BC""323 BC),Bucephalus (c.355 BC""326 BC),Equestrian,horse,horse Bucephalus,rearing,unharnessed,EH1 1YJ,EH1,statues,statue,bronze
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BE34DX - Alexander (356 BC323 BC) and Bucephalus (c.355 BC326 BC)
John Steell (18041891)
City Chambers High Street, Edinburgh
A draped standing figure of Alexander holding onto his horse Bucephalus which is unharnessed and rearing. The satue is on a corniced, bow-ended ashlar plinth. It was moved from St Andrew Square to its present site in 1916.
Title
Alexander (356 BC323 BC) and Bucephalus (c.355 BC326 BC)
Date
18321883
Medium
bronze
Measurements
H 300 x W (?) x D (?) cm
Plinth: H 340 x W 240 x D 220 cm
Accession number
EH1_GB_S006
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paid for by public subscription
Work type
Equestrian
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,saltire,UK,pub,bar,drink,green,blue,bars,pubs,St Andrews cross,flag,outside,exterior,icon,iconic,tavern,127 High St,Old Town,Edinburgh,Scotland,EH1 1SG,EH1,sign,front,frontage,architecture,heritage,history,tourist,tourism,attraction,High Street,lantern,ornate,Victorian,clock
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,South Bridge Edinburgh,historic university buildings,Victorian stone buildings,moody cityscape,historic courtyard,education,higher education,heritage,architecture,culture,history,learning,academia,European universities,historic cities,urban atmosphere,editorial travel,cultural tourism,public institutions,civic life,moody photography,atmospheric city,Edinburgh,Scotland,United Kingdom,UK capital,university courtyard,stone architecture,domed building,classical facade,academic institution,cultural venue,gallery exterior,historic education,urban heritage,dramatic sky,overcast weather
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF8BK4 - A moody dusk scene within the historic Old College of the University of Edinburgh, showing the neoclassical stone buildings surrounding the central courtyard at South College Street and South Bridge in Edinburgh's Old Town. The imposing architecture, constructed in pale sandstone and crowned by a domed central structure, is set beneath heavy, textured cloud cover that deepens the sense of atmosphere and academic gravitas. The soft, fading light accentuates the worn surfaces, arches and balustrades, revealing centuries of use and civic presence.
In the foreground, a solitary figure stands within the courtyard, adding scale and a quiet human narrative to the monumental surroundings. Ornate iron street lighting and stone steps frame the approach to the buildings, reinforcing the formal layout typical of major eighteenth and nineteenth-century university architecture. The Talbot Rice Gallery, housed within Old College, forms part of this complex, linking contemporary art and culture with one of Scotland's most significant educational institutions.
Old College has long symbolised Edinburgh's role as a centre of learning, philosophy and intellectual life, closely associated with the Scottish Enlightenment and the city's reputation as the Athens of the North. The restrained colour palette, subdued lighting and dramatic sky combine to create an image that feels contemplative and slightly austere, reflecting the seriousness traditionally associated with academia and civic authority.
This image is well suited for editorial use covering higher education, university life, architecture, Scottish history, culture and urban heritage, as well as commercial applications requiring atmospheric imagery of historic institutions, European universities and moody city environments.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CET0YF - The Falkirk Wheel canal Lift, Scotland, UK
