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A trapiche is a mill used to extract the juice from certain fruits of the earth, such as olives or sugar cane.
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A trapiche is a mill used to extract the juice from certain fruits of the earth, such as olives or sugar cane.
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A trapiche is a mill used to extract the juice from certain fruits of the earth, such as olives or sugar cane.
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Secondary Coach Mike Mickens Is Leaving For The Baltimore Ravens
Notre Dame has suffered a really tough blow as Irish Breakdown has been able to confirm that secondary…
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Secondary Coach Mike Mickens Is Leaving For The Baltimore Ravens
Notre Dame has suffered a really tough blow as Irish Breakdown has been able to confirm that secondary…
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Secondary Coach Mike Mickens Is Leaving For The Baltimore Ravens https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/705692/ #baltimore #BaltimoreRavens #BaltimoreRavens #BenjaminMorrison #DefensiveStaff #Football #LeonardMoore #mickens #MikeMickens #NFL #NotreDame #PasserRating #Ravens #XavierWatts
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Secondary Coach Mike Mickens Is Leaving For The Baltimore Ravens https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/705692/ #baltimore #BaltimoreRavens #BaltimoreRavens #BenjaminMorrison #DefensiveStaff #Football #LeonardMoore #mickens #MikeMickens #NFL #NotreDame #PasserRating #Ravens #XavierWatts
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Lee Vogt’s SONG OF THE WEEK: “Mary” https://leevogt.bandcamp.com/track/mary
#Mary #singer #songwriter #LeonardCohen #RandyNewman #Harry #Nilsson #JohnStewart #SimonandGarfunkel #Simon #Garfunkel #Gary #Connecticut #Woodvale #Road #Branford #church #empty #countryroad #NewHampshire #GiafuFeng #TaoTeChing #Jane #English #RogerHahn #LeeVogt #JohnnyJBlair #marypoppins #julieandrews #jimhelman
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The government has proposed new legislative amendments that would give ministers far-reaching authority to change online safety rules without the need for full parliamentary approval. With comment from @neil
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Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico the same year that Leonardo Da Vinci died: 1519.
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@Leonardo Giovanni Scur First of all, it isn't about my requirements. Just like, surprise, surprise, Mastodon's alt-text police is not blind.
It's about general accessibility. And it's about Mastodon users acting inclusively towards blind or visually-impaired people and, at the same time, ableistically towards people with other physical disabilities. Just because they cling hard to the extra 1,500 characters that alt-text gives them per image to their meagre character count for posts.
Except for professional Web accessibility experts, literally nobody on Mastodon seems to know what alt-text really is for. Alt-text is meant to be a 1:1 stand-in for an image, in case the image can't be perceived for whichever reason.
Alt-text is not meant to be an additional source of information beyond what information the image conveys.
Mastodon's use of alt-text for extra information beyond the post character limit is just as much alt-text misuse as cramming alt-text with keywords for SEO on websites. Unfortunately, it is so deeply engrained into Mastodon's culture that even the Mastodon devs have played along and added that "ALT" button which most Mastodon users think is the default and the standard Fediverse-wide now.
But let me tell you something:
Mastodon and its forks are most likely the only Fediverse server applications with an alt-text button. And they're far from making up the whole Fediverse.
Misskey and its various forks don't have an alt-text button.
AFAIK, Pleroma-FE and Akkoma-FE don't have an alt-text button, and neither has Mangane.
Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams), Forte, they all don't have an alt-text button.
Lemmy doesn't have an alt-text button. /kbin and Mbin don't have an alt-text button. PieFed doesn't have an alt-text button.
WriteFreely doesn't have an alt-text button. Plume doesn't have an alt-text button. WordPress doesn't have an alt-text button either.
Blogs in general don't have an alt-text button. Forums don't have an alt-text button. Static websites don't have an alt-text button.
Twitter/𝕏 doesn't have an alt-text button. Facebook doesn't have an alt-text button. Instagram doesn't have an alt-text button. Threads doesn't have an alt-text button. Tumblr doesn't have an alt-text button. Flickr doesn't have an alt-text button. Pinterest doesn't have an alt-text button. And so forth.
The W3C doesn't mention alt-text buttons. The WCAG don't mention alt-text buttons.
Why not? Because they're all way behind Mastodon in accessibility?
No, but because their developers know that alt-text is not an additional source of information for sighted people.
Literally the only place anywhere in the Web where alt-text both counts and is actively used as an additional source of information for sighted people is Mastodon. Plus its forks.
How I handle that? I put all needed extra information into the post text. But I'm not on Mastodon. I'm on Hubzilla. My character limit is over 30,000 times higher than on Mastodon.
Seriously, if missing alt-text is sanctioned as ableist, if useless alt-text is sanctioned as ableist, if inaccurate alt-text is sanctioned as ableist, if too lacking alt-text is sanctioned as ableist, then putting exclusive information into alt-text must be sanctioned as ableist just as well.
To those on Mastodon who oh so desperately need more than 500 characters: Move someplace in the Fediverse that has more than 500 characters. There's Fediverse server software from 3,000 characters to over 24,000,000 characters that, nonetheless, is federated with Mastodon.
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Lee Vogt’s SONG OF THE WEEK: “Come Along Side of Me” https://leevogt.bandcamp.com/track/come-along-side-of-me
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The mining of the “Saucy” and the “Firefly”: the thread about the WW2 loss of forty-two lives in the Forth
I was looking for something in Seafield Cemetery last week and couldn’t help but stop by the war graves. Some are for merchant seamen and many of them were from HMS Saucy, lost with all hands on this day (September 4th) in 1940. As yesterday was Merchant Navy Day, this is a doubly appropriate time to relate their story.
The Saucy was built for the Royal Navy in Hull in 1918 as a 600-ton, 155ft-long Frisky-class rescue tug. She was sold out of service in 1924 but kept her name and was requisitioned in 1939, returning to the UK from Shanghai. She was crewed by merchant seamen, serving under officers of the Royal Navy Reserve (RNR men were professional merchant naval officers who had joined the reserves to be called up in times of war).
HMS Saucy, pre-1924 postcard imageSaucy was based on the Forth at Rosyth, her duties to assist in any damaged vessels entering the estuary and was at sea on September 3rd (Merchant Navy Day and exactly 1 year into the war) when she brought in a damaged Dutch merchant ship that had been bombed by German aircraft. With this charge safely brought in, she headed back out on patrol in the early morning of the 4th. Contact was soon lost with her when she was in a position about 1.5 miles west of the island of Inchkeith; the unfortunate tug had hit a mine and gone down almost instantly, taking all 281 on board with her. It is not clear whose mine she had struck, it may have been dropped by a German aircraft, but just as likely it may have been a “friendly” mine that had broken free from its moorings and had floated further into the Firth.
“The Sea Mine”, Louis Raemaekers, 1916 © Edinburgh City LibrariesOf the crew the 3 officers were all RNR men and the 25 ratings were all merchant seamen. Eighteen came from the Devonshire fishing town of Brixham, 7 from the same extended family. Eight bodies were recovered, 5 of them of Brixham men and all were buried at Seafield – although one was never formally identified.
Sub. Lt. Francis Douglas Phillips (age 36), Fireman Cyril Harvey (age 20), and Fireman Samuel Piper (age 26)Sailor Charles Launder (age 36)Sailor Harry Nicholls (aged 30) and Sailor Thomas Lovell (aged 53)Sub Lt. David Llewellyn Thomas, age 29 and an unknown sailor from HMS SaucyOn this day in 2004, a memorial plaque was dedicated in Brixham Harbour to the men who were lost – it has 26 individual names, however different sources list 27 names and some say there were 28 on the ship’s roll. See footnote.
HMS Saucy memorial at Brixham, from War Memorials OnlineA new HMS Saucy was named in her honour in 1942, an Assurance-class rescue tug. The wreck of her predecessor was marked with a buoy in 1940, but it was largely lost by 1945. Sonar surveys by the Navy in 1967 and 1871 failed to locate it, but it was found again by the minehunter HMS Sandown in 1992, and her divers explored the wreck in 1993 and found it to be remarkably intact in 15m of water, position 56° 2′ 10″N, 3° 10′ 33″W.
HMS Saucy (the 1942 replacement), on the Humber in February 1943 © IWM FL 8980The men whose bodies were never found are further commemorated on the Liverpool Naval Memorial, which commemorates almost 1,400 merchant sailors who died serving with the Royal Navy during WW2 and have no known resting place.
- Some sources say 26 or 27 were on the ship’s roll. Most also 7 seven men were buried at Seafield, however there is the grave of an 8th and unidentified victim also alongside. ↩︎
Alongside the men from the Saucy at Seafield lie three others who lost their lives to sea mines that year; Lt. D. B. Johnstone RNVR, Chief Petty Officer C. E. Baldwin RN D.S.M. and Sub Lt. C. Dobson RNVR. All three died on HMS Firefly in February 1940. Baldwin had earned the Distinguished Service Medal early in the war for being the first to defuse a German magnetic mine, allowing it to be captured, inspected and countermeasures devised.
Sub Lt. Carl Dobson RNVR, age 29Lt. David Johnstone RNVR, age 37 and CPO Charles Baldwin RN, age 40Firefly was a requisitioned civilian trawler, hired from her owners as a minesweeper. Trawlers were perfect for this sort of work, which required a seaworthy vessel that could handle the towing of “sweeps” that cut mines free from their moorings before the crew destroyed them (usually by shooting it with a rifle until it exploded).
Oil painting of HMS Firefly by H. Trythall, Victoria BC, 1991On February 3rd 1940, Firefly was in the Forth, her crew attempting to defuse a British mine that had gotten loose and was posing a hazard to shipping. These sort of mines look exactly like they do in cartoons; a buoyant, black sphere with spiky “horns” in which the detonators are mounted.
“Deadly Instruments of Modern Naval Fighting”, London Illustrated News, August 1914Firefly was stopped in the water, her crew watching from the railings while a detachment in the row boat carefully manoeuvred alongside the mine to defuse it; dangerous but routine work. Without warning they were hit by the wake of a passing destroyer, which pushed the mine onto the boat. The horn contacted one of the boat’s oars, and 200-250lb of explosives was detonated. Everyone on the boat was killed instantly, as were all except one watching on deck (who would die the next day from his wounds). Only the 3 men in the wheelhouse and 1 in the galley survived from a crew of 18. Sadly one of the four survivors, Lt. Andrew Macgavin Maclean RNVR, would die in the Royal Infirmary two weeks later as a result of infection, he was laid to rest in Strathblane Parish Churchyard (I am indebted to Pat Davy of Strathblane Heritage Society for this information).
Remarkably, the vessel herself was largely intact – apart from damage to her superstructure – and she was towed into Leith by the minesweeping trawler HMS Wardour and repaired. She returned to service, recommissioning in June 1940, and serving out the rest of the war. Returned to her owners and renamed St. Just, she fished out of Harwich until 1961. Wardour herself was sunk by a mine she was clearing in October 1940 but her crew survived. In a curious coincidence, a previous HMS Firefly was one of the first ships to strike a naval mine (which at the time were referred to as “Infernal Machines”) when she and HMS Merlin ran into a Russian minefield off Sveaborg in the Baltic Campaign of 1855, although both survived. In another odd twist of fate, the Firth of Forth was the location of both the first loss of a ship to a torpedo in WW1 (the cruiser HMS Pathfinder), and the last such in WW2 (the Canadian steamer Avondale Park and the Norwegian collier “Sneland I).
“Merlin and Firefly Struck by Infernal Machines” Name, Rank & Resting PlaceName, Rank & Resting PlaceSub Lt. Walter AndersonSub Lt. Frederick JonesSub Lt. Francis Douglas Phillips (Seafield)Sub Lt. David Thomas (Seafield)Third Engineer Edward Pulham*Fireman John Clift*Sailor Thomas Coysh*Sailor Seymour Crang*Sailor William Cudd*Sailor Sidney Foster*Fireman Stanley Gardner*Fireman Cyril Harvey* (Seafield)Donkeyman Leonard Harvey*Fireman Roy Harvey*Sailor Charles Launder* (Seafield)Sailor Vincent Medway*Sailor Thomas Lovell* (Seafield)Sailor Samuel Piper* (Seafield)Sailor Harry Nicholls* (Seafield)Fireman Charles Roberts*Fireman Ralph Stamp*Fireman John Seaward*Sailor George HosieFireman Donald McGregor ReidSteward Donald ReidSailor Robert TomlinsonCook John StenhouseOfficers and men of HMS Saucy, lost in September 1940, asterisked names were men from BrixhamName, Rank & Resting PlaceName, Rank & Resting PlaceLt. David B. Johnstone (Seafield)Lt. Andrew Macgavin Maclean (Strathblane)Sub Lt. Norman Peat (Glasgow)Sub Lt. Geoffrey Vaughan (Bournemouth)Sub Lt. Carl Dobson (Seafield)CPO Charles Baldwin (Seafield)Engineman Benjamin Barker (Hartlepool)Seaman Henry Beavers (Preston)Second Hand John Cowie (Buckie)Seaman John Clay (Preston)Seaman Cook Walter Johnson (Great Yarmouth)Seaman Peter Reid (Buckie)Seaman Alexander Stewart (Buckie)Seaman James Stewart (Lossiemouth)Second Hand Edward Barker (Cleethorpes)Officers and men of HMS Firefly, lost in February 1940Note to readers: unfortunately in April 2026, a third-party plug-in more than exceeded its authority and broke many of the image links on this site. No images were lost but I will have to restore them page-by-page, which may take some time. In the meantime please bear with me while I go about rectifying this issue.
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Blitz! The thread about WW2 air raids in Edinburgh and Leith
An air raid on Leith on the night of Monday April 7th 1941 saw extensive property damage caused in North Leith. But it wasn’t just bricks and mortar that suffered: three people were killed and 118 injured in the raid which makes it the 10th most deadly such event (by total casualties) in Scotland during the war.
Leith Town Hall (now the Theatre) commemorative plaque marking damage done in the air raid, original picture © Leith TheatreNote, there was deliberately limited and non-specific press reporting of the details and casualties of air raids during the war itself. Some such reporting only took place, retrospectively, after the war but understandably details were occasionally incorrect or overlooked. For accuracy and out of respect I have endeavoured to cross-reference everything below that refers to individuals with the official civilian war death records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Scotland’s People.
One of those who lost their lives in the raid that night was 17 year old Anstruther (Ernie) Smith, a delivery boy from 15 Graham Street who also worked as a messenger for the Leith ARP (Air Raid Precautions – civil defence). On hearing the sirens he had assisted his elderly neighbours to a shelter before reporting for duty at Leith’s Town hall a few streets away where Ferry Road meets Great Junction and North Junction Streets. It was here that he lost his life when a bomb landed nearby and exploded. He was fondly remembered in his community as someone who freely helped the elderly; checking in on them on his way to work each morning to light their fires and make them a cup of tea, and running errands for them. The Anstruther Pensioner’s Club was formed after the war in his memory, it was held in the very room in the Town Hall where we died and it attracted 300 members and a waiting list of 200.
Anstruther Smith, a photo displayed in Leith Library in his memoryAlso killed by the same bomb that claimed Ernie was 85 year-old Jane Notman Young, who died in her house by the Town Hall at 21 North Junction Street. Lastly a 19 year-old apprentice draughtsman and Home Guard volunteer, Kenneth James Anderson, died in hospital the following morning after his house at 5 Largo Place was badly damaged in the blast. This block would later have to be demolished.
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Mercifully the death-to-injury ratio was substantially lower than other comparable attacks on Scottish cities; Leith had been hit by two bombs known as Luftmines – large weapons that were dropped on a parachute and intended for use against dock areas to attack shipping. These as it turned out were not very effective against other targets such as buildings, despite their size. Never the less, three hundred people in North Leith were rendered homeless due to the damage caused to housing in the neighbourhood. £1,500 was allocated to Leith from the National Air Raid Distress Fund, which provided emergency clothing, bedding and canteens to raid victims.
“Bombed Out”, illustration by War Artist Edward Ardizzone in April 1941 who was working in Glasgow and Edinburgh at this time. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1344)The bombs that hit Leith damaged the three principal public buildings of the burgh; its Town Hall (which included its main public auditorium), its Library – both of which were hardly 10 years old – and the large David Kilpatrick (“DK“) School adjacent. As well as the tenement houses, the Norwegian Seaman’s Lutheran Church, North Leith Parish Church and a railway embankment and signal box of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) all suffered varying degrees of damage. The gallery below shows some of these:
A photo showing the wrecked interior of the Leith Town Hall concert theatreDamaged interior of Leith Library during post-war repairs, 1953. © Edinburgh City LibrariesLeith Town Hall in 1957, the damage still not repaired after 16 years. From “The Sphere” magazine.Bomb damage of the “DK” school and annexe, a photo taken in April 1941 but not published until the war’s endBomb damage caused in Leith on April 7th 1941The main lending room of the library was not fully repaired until 1956 although the reference room had been re-purposed to serve as such in the meantime. The Town Hall and its auditorium had to wait until 1961, a full 20 years after the bombs had fallen. The city’s apparent neglect in restoring the public buildings of Leith after the war caused much local consternation at the time. This damaged caused to the outbuildings of the DK school, which were in use as a nursery school, became known locally as the Bombies and was apparently where pupils would gather to sort out their differences with fists. It would not be replaced until much later and this in turn was demolished, along with the rest of the school, in the 1980s.
Luftwaffe night-time bombing map of Edinburgh, Lothians and south Fife. It is tinted yellow to be better viewed under the night-time cabin lights of an aircraft. Targets (Ziele) were marked in luminescent ink.Although Leith was marked as a bombing target on German maps, the intended target of this raid had actually been Clydebank almost 50 miles to the west, where 20 souls lost their lives and 313 were injured that same night. This attack was a follow up to the Clydebank Blitz of March 1941 but the raiders had become scattered and twelve other targets across Scotland, including Leith, were hit that night with a total of 49 killed and 456 injured. Most of the deaths night were in Gretna in Dumfriesshire where a lone aircraft jettisoned its bombs and hit a Masonic Lodge, killing 22 and wounding 18. Other bombs were dropped as widely as Bankfoot and Stanley in Perthshire, Loch Nevis in Knoydart, Fife and Arbroath in the east of the country and Greenlaw to the south in the Borders; a huge margin of error. Closer to Leith were the mainline railway leading to the Forth Bridge near Turnhouse and Braehead House in Cramond with thirty four incendiary bombs between these points. These were 1kg aluminium tubes filled with a compound called Thermite which burned at around 2,500°C and were intended to set fire to wooden structures and the timber flooring and roof structures of buildings. These were a far cry from the ineffective rope and tar incendiaries dropped on Edinburgh and Leith by a German Zepellin in 1916.
WW2 German B1E 1kg incendiary, IWM MUN3291Although this raid caused the greatest damage to property in Leith during the war, it was not the worst in terms of the loss of life. The previous summer, on the evening of July 18th 1940 at 7:45PM, seven people were killed on George Street in North Leith (now known as North Fort Street). At 8 George Street David Lennie Duff (a 33 year-old basket maker) and his sister Lily Duff (a 23 year-old biscuit packer); Catherine Helliwell (a 61 year-old housewife) and her son-in-law Robert Thomson (a 25 year-old baker); Catherine Fallon Baird (74); and Catherine Redpath (41) who had been visiting the address from her home at 20 Gorgie Road were killed. Over the street at number 13, 15 year-old Jane (Jean) Bauld Rutherford from number 17 was killed when the bomb shelter she was in was hit. The fatal damage had been caused by bombs intended for the Victoria Dock, one of which hit the foot of Portland Place where a nearby tramcar was fortunate to miss getting a direct hit that would surely have resulted in more fatalities.
Repairs at Portland Place. © Edinburgh City LibrariesNumber 8 George Street, where six people had lost their lives, had to be demolished along with its neighbour at number 10 and was not rebuilt until 1959. The rest of the tenements of George Street – apart from the northern corner blocks – were later levelled by the city planners as part of the Fort Area Comprehensive Redevelopment not long afterwards.
The replacement flats for 8 George Street in Leith, a mid-century building replacing a Victorian tenement.Four days later, on July 22nd, a raid on Leith Docks killed Robert Hume of 45 Glover Street (aged 33), a fireman with the Auxiliary Fire Service at the Albert Dock. Also on this night Mary Fulton Riach (aged 65) of 23 Woodbine Terrace and Catherine Leishman (aged 68) of 4 Meadowbank Crescent both died from heart failure during the raid, the official cause of death being put down to “war operations“. Two months later, on September 29th, a single stray bomb fell on the block of number 21 – 27 Crewe Place in East Pilton killing the young McArthur children; brother and sister Morag Elizabeth (aged 5) and Ronald Egbert (aged 7) from number 27. Their neighbour Charles Fortune Wilson (aged 69) of number 25 would die the next day in hospital. The landlords and builders of this housing scheme, Mactaggart and Mickel, rehoused the now-homeless survivors and had rebuilt the house at their own expense within 6 weeks. A wartime shortage of timber meant it was given a flat roof, the only such house on the street and the only clue to its sad history.
21-27 Crewe Place, with a flat roof compared to the pitched roof of its neighbours.Another single, stray bomb dropped that evening hit a bonded whisky warehouse of the Caledonian Distillery on Duff Street in Dalry. The distillery was home to over a million gallons of highly-flammable spirit and an immense fire erupted, so ferocious that the reflection on the clouds in the night sky was apparently visible to German aircrew flying over Middlesborough, 150 miles (240km) away to the south. The bond was totally destroyed, as was one adjoining tenement of fourteen flats at 28 Springwell Place.
Firefighters damping down the remains of the Duff Street whisky bond.A week later around 745PM on October 7th, five small bombs were dropped in the district of Marchmont, landing at 29 Roseneath Terrace, 20 Meadow Place, 16 Roseneath Place, 13 Marchmont Crescent and 21 Marchmont Road. Eleven people were injured by flying glass and splinters. Three weeks later on the morning of October 26th, Margaret Ridley Stuart (aged 72) died at her flat at 45 Tolbooth Wynd in Leith from a heart attack brought on by another air raid leaving her husband Thomas, a retired dock labourer, a widower.
Unusually, a photograph of the raid that caused damage in Marchmont was published in the newspapers at the time, under the vague caption of “Tenements Resist Bomb Blast… in South-East Scotland”. Notice how many windows have been blown out.The following month the animal population of Edinburgh Zoo was reduced slightly when, on November 4th, two stray bombs hit the park killing six budgerigars and a wild rabbit (as reported by Zoo Director T. H. Gillespie to The Scotsman, Friday 20 December 1940). The craters were left unfilled and became a visitor attraction. A crater caused by a bomb dropped on the lawn of Holyrood Park was used by enterprising locals to raise money for a Spitfire Fund by charging for access to view it.
The month after the raid on North Leith which had killed Ernie, on the night of 6th May 1941, five lives were lost in the suburban bungalows of Duddingston on the outskirts of the city. One large bomb, three smaller ones and 100 incendiaries fell on Niddrie Road (now called Duddingston Park South), Milton Crescent and the Jewel Cottages at around half past midnight. Leonard Arthur Wilde (aged 39), an Air Raid Warden, was killed in his home at number 27 Milton Crescent along with his neighbours Joseph Watson (aged 40) of the Home Guard and William Dineley (aged 37). Lilias Tait Waterston (aged 69) was killed in her house at 26 Niddrie Road and her neighbour Barbara Thomson (87) was killed at number 30.
The last bombs of the war which caused fatalities in Edinburgh fell on Loaning Road in Craigentinny on the night of August 6th 1942, demolishing the Corporation tenement at number 35. Two people were killed; Elizabeth Veitch (aged 13) at number 35 and Robert Wright (aged 66), the janitor of Craigentinny Community Centre next door. A replacement tenement was built here post-war.
View from the back greensView from the frontPost-war replacementBomb damage at 35 Loaning Road, © Edinburgh City LibrariesYou can see in the first picture where the bomb has left a crater (green arrow), upended an “Anderson” shelter (blue) and the entrance to another shelter (orange). Note the white painted poles, so you don’t run into them in the dark
Air raid shelters in the back greens of Loaning Road. © Edinburgh City LibrariesEdinburgh and Leith were mercifully spared most of the horrors of aerial bombing meted out to other cities during WW2. Altogether there were 21 civilian deaths and about 210 injuries caused directly by aerial bombing. At least 5 further deaths were recorded as being due to “war operations” when people had heart attacks brought about by the shock and stress of experiencing an air raid.
Date of Air RaidLocationFatalities18th July 19408 & 13 George Street, North Leith722nd July 1940Albert Dock, Leith1 29th September 194025 & 27 Crewe Place, East Pilton37th April 1941North Leith36th May 194123-27 Milton Crescent & 26-30 Niddrie Road, Duddingston56th August 194235 Loaning Crescent, Craigentinny2Civilian fatalities in Edinburgh and Leith directly due to aerial bombingIf this thread has proved interesting you may be interested in a thread on the first aerial raids and shooting down of German aircraft over the UK in WW2 which took place over the Firth of Forth in view of Edinburgh and Leith or a thread detailing some of the anti-aircraft defences of the city during the conflict.
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The thread about Conder Tokens; when Edinburgh and Leith issued their own money
This thread was originally written and published in September 2020.
Today I have found out about Conder Tokens. Did you know about Conder Tokens? Until yesterday I didn’t know what they were and until today I didn’t know what they were called
1796 Leith Conder Token. © Historic Environment Scotland, Trinity House collectionLong story short, in 18th century Britain there was a chronic shortage of small denomination coinage due to excessive counterfeiting and low production of non-precious coins by the Royal Mint. But demand for them was soaring due to industrialisation and the need to pay workers and that there were ever more consumer goods around for people to buy. As a result, counterfeit coinage boomed, perhaps two thirds of all low-value coins may have been forgeries. The Royal Mint’s response was to simply stop producing copper coins and for 48 years from 1773-1821, they struck no copper coins.A Welsh industrialist – Thomas Williams of Llanidan, “the Copper King” – proposed an anti-counterfeiting edge to the coins to the Royal Mint so long as they used his copper, but they declined.
Thomas Williams by Thomas Lawrence, c. 1792.Clearly a modern industrial country could not function without a means to pay and buy, so industry, led by Williams, resorted to simply producing their own coinage. Such coins, or tokens, could be traded freely at the denoted value and presented to some wealthy sponsoring merchant, industrialist or local worthy for exchange as required. Most people didn’t travel far or hold on to money for long, so these tokens were an ideal way for them to be paid and for them to buy things.
A halfpenny token issued by the Parys Mine Company of Anglesey in 1788.The idea quickly caught on. The tokens were of a much higher quality than official coinage – indeed they are instantly recognisable to us as a variation of our modern pennies – and as they were issued by prominent businessmen the provenance could be trusted. The value of the copper content also made them less susceptible to being speculated on than promissory notes or other cheap tokens – they had an intrinsic value of their own. One of the biggest manufacturers of such coins was the industrialist Matthew Boulton (James “Condensing Steam Engine” Watt’s business partner).
Matthew Boulton in 1792 by Carl Frederik von BredaBoulton had the machinery, the capital, the interests in copper mines, a personal stock of copper bought in a slump in the market and the contacts. He established the Soho Mint in the West Midlands in 1788 and went into volume minting of quality tokens. His machines were of his own patented design and were driven by steam engines. Each could mint 70 to 85 coins per minute.
Boulton’s “Soho Mint” in the late 18th centurySuch was the demand for small coinage, these tokens quickly spread and were issued on a town-by-town, county-by-county basis. As such they are often called Provincial Tokens. The name Conder Token comes from James Conder, an issuer of such coins who soon became an avid collector and cataloguer of them.
1794 Ipswich Conder Token, issued by Conder himselfIn 1797, the Government finally came to its senses about the financial crisis and issued Boulton a contract to mint official copper coinage and so provincial tokens began to wane. Production ceased by 1802, with a brief return in 1811-12, before finally being forbidden in 1817. Many Scottish municipalities joined in issuing local coinage during this time. The table shows the number of different coins known for each area of the country. The financial capital in the Lothians and the industrial capital in Lanarkshire were unsurprisingly the most prolific, alongside the trade centre in Dundee (Angus).
CountyTokensCountyTokensAberdeenshire1Kirkcudbrightshire1Angus43Lanarkshire54Argyle5Linlithgowshire5Ayrshire9Lothian150Dumfriesshire1Perthshire11Fife16Renfrewshire6Haddingtonshire4Roxburghshire1Invernesshire5Selkirkshire1Kinrosshire1Non-regional8Conder tokens of Scotland by local areaAnd so this is how we come to there being such a thing as a Leith Ha’penny. This one, of 1797, shows a sailing ship on one side – an obvious Leith connection – and Britannia on the rear.
1797 Leith ha’pennyAnd the John White (a merchant of the Kirkgate) Leith ha’penny, wishing “Success to the Port” with another nautical scene, showing a ship entering the Port of Leith, and featuring the stuff of profitable trade on the back; gin and tea.
1796 Leith Ha’pennySo of course if Leith has Ha’pennies, of course Edinburgh has to have them to! Notice that Britannia is a gain a common theme, as are recognisable civic buildings. WRIGHT DES on the front refers to James Wright, an engraver from Dundee who designed many tokens. He was a correspondent with Conder, himself and was as keen a proponent and collector of them.
1796 Edinburgh Ha’penny, the newly completed Register House on the front. © RMG1796 Edinburgh Ha’penny, Britannia and a trading ship on the rear © RMGAnd another version, earlier from 1790, featuring the municipal coat of arms and motto, thistles, and St. Andrew himself. Note the anchor on the rear, a symbol of both Edinburgh’s merchant prosperity and also its dominance over its port at Leith. These tokens were produced by Messrs. Hutchinson of Creech’s Land, an important old building at the west end of the Luckenbooths where Alan Ramsay had his book shop and had opened Scotland’s first circulating library in 1725.
1790 Edinburgh Conder TokenThe Campbell’s Snuff of Edinburgh Ha’penny, the Turk’s Head being a connection to smoking. if you squint you can make out the name “James” below the head, for the engraver Charles James. Campbell’s shop was apparently the business of Euphame Campbell, which makes this doubly interesting as it must have been very rare to have a token in the name of a woman.
1796 Edinburgh Conder TokenThe Archibald, Seedsman of Edinburgh Ha’penny. The coin features an Archibald family coat of arms on the front and an advert for his wares on the back. This Archibald was Joseph Archibald of West Nicolson Street, a burgess of the city, who kept a shop at 88 Chapel Street and a nursery at Lauriston, where a street, Archibald Place, is named for him.
1796 Edinburgh Conder Token1796 Edinburgh Conder TokenHarrison of St. Leonards, Ha’penny. Henry Harrison was a bucklemaker on St. Leonard’s Hill. Harrison’s cypher is on the reverse, with the anchor of trade on the front.
1796 Edinburgh Conder TokenAnderson, Leslie & Company Ha’penny from 1797, featuring the then new college building of the University on South Bridge. Again James Wright was the engraver. The wording around the edge of the reverse translates as “Nor let even the poor and infertile grounds lie neglected” and features a gardener. Not surprisingly given this design and wording, Anderson, Leslie & Company were also Seedsmen, based opposite the Mercat Cross in the Old Town.
1797 Edinburgh Conder TokenThe Scran archive has a wide range of photos of other Scottish Conder tokens (If you have a library card issued by most Scottish councils, you can log in using your library card number to get more meta content and bigger pictures) – click here.
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#AlternateFridayMusic
Oct 24 2025
The prompt is #VastLeonard Cohen, “Nevermind” from Popular Problems, 2014
*Not* the lyric (stay with me, it’ll make sense):
No man can see
The vast design
Or who will be
Last of his kindWith artists who have essentially been canonized even while they walk the earth, more recent late-career efforts often get overlooked or even willfully disregarded. I get it; who thinks The [Half-a-]Who’s Endless Wire stands up to Who’s Next? But it isn’t *always* this way.
#LeonardCohen neither burned out early, nor faded away; in fact, I find some of his 21st century material his most moving. He also is one of those vocal artists without a stereotypically good singing voice who, as time went on, even as his voice grew worn with age (and in some part because of that), found the most moving, effective place it could sit. (I mean, “You Want It Darker”? Come on.)
Without delving into literal or figurative meaning in his lyrics, sinister or anguished, Cohen’s “Nevermind” seems to sadly suit our times. And that stanza above? It’s in his poem Nevermind, but he omitted it from the recorded song - but I really like where he ends it. Give it a listen and see if you agree.
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Listening to Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington. So great. Gorgeous image by Herman Leonard of Ella Fitzgerald singing as Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Richard Rodgers watch at the Downbeat club in New York City, 1949 #jazz #EllaFitzgerald #HermanLeonard #film #photo #Ella #JazzSky #photography
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César Favacho está fazendo sua própria versão do #BBB: "Big Bicho Brasil", com vídeos ao vivo de um viveiro de formigas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za2EHuCNVpE
O canal dele tem mais alguns vídeos como este.
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“PETERS: You may have read the Babylonian myth explaining why there are so many different languages in the world?
LEONARD: No.
PETERS: God was extremely annoyed by the racket in the streets, so he invented all the different languages to keep people from talking to each other so much.
LEONARD: That’s pretty funny.”
Excerpt From
Mr. Peters' Connections, 1999
The Penguin Arthur Miller Centennial, 1915-2015
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If you're attending #PWN2OWN, be sure to watch Doyensec's Leonardo Giovannini demonstrate his #OpenAI Codex 0day exploit live Thursday, May 14 at 15:30.
If you can't make it in person, keep an eye on https://blog.doyensec.com/ for more great #ai security research like this - coming very soon!
See the PWN2OWN schedule here: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2026/5/13/pwn2own-berlin-2026-the-full-schedule
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If you're attending #PWN2OWN, be sure to watch Doyensec's Leonardo Giovannini demonstrate his #OpenAI Codex 0day exploit live Thursday, May 14 at 15:30.
If you can't make it in person, keep an eye on https://blog.doyensec.com/ for more great #ai security research like this - coming very soon!
See the PWN2OWN schedule here: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2026/5/13/pwn2own-berlin-2026-the-full-schedule
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If you're attending #PWN2OWN, be sure to watch Doyensec's Leonardo Giovannini demonstrate his #OpenAI Codex 0day exploit live Thursday, May 14 at 15:30.
If you can't make it in person, keep an eye on https://blog.doyensec.com/ for more great #ai security research like this - coming very soon!
See the PWN2OWN schedule here: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2026/5/13/pwn2own-berlin-2026-the-full-schedule
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If you're attending #PWN2OWN, be sure to watch Doyensec's Leonardo Giovannini demonstrate his #OpenAI Codex 0day exploit live Thursday, May 14 at 15:30.
If you can't make it in person, keep an eye on https://blog.doyensec.com/ for more great #ai security research like this - coming very soon!
See the PWN2OWN schedule here: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2026/5/13/pwn2own-berlin-2026-the-full-schedule
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If you're attending #PWN2OWN, be sure to watch Doyensec's Leonardo Giovannini demonstrate his #OpenAI Codex 0day exploit live Thursday, May 14 at 15:30.
If you can't make it in person, keep an eye on https://blog.doyensec.com/ for more great #ai security research like this - coming very soon!
See the PWN2OWN schedule here: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2026/5/13/pwn2own-berlin-2026-the-full-schedule
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Depois de @rcdc3 divulgar que a síndrome dos ovários policísticos está mudando de nome, escrevi um pouco sobre o que isso significa na prática. O texto tem jargão biomédico, mas quem estiver interessado pode perguntar aqui que eu respondo.
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Depois de @rcdc3 divulgar que a síndrome dos ovários policísticos está mudando de nome, escrevi um pouco sobre o que isso significa na prática. O texto tem jargão biomédico, mas quem estiver interessado pode perguntar aqui que eu respondo.
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Depois de @rcdc3 divulgar que a síndrome dos ovários policísticos está mudando de nome, escrevi um pouco sobre o que isso significa na prática. O texto tem jargão biomédico, mas quem estiver interessado pode perguntar aqui que eu respondo.
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Depois de @rcdc3 divulgar que a síndrome dos ovários policísticos está mudando de nome, escrevi um pouco sobre o que isso significa na prática. O texto tem jargão biomédico, mas quem estiver interessado pode perguntar aqui que eu respondo.
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Just revisited these 2018 Cochrane systematic reviews on the efficacy of influenza vaccines. They are still current, perhaps because they were able to achieve moderate certainty on the estimated effects.
Vaccines for preventing influenza in…
- healthy adults: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD001269.pub6
- healthy children: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004879.pub5
- the elderly: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004876.pub4