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Leucemia mieloide crónica: un cáncer silencioso
Leucemia mieloide crónica: un cáncer silencioso
San José, 14 sep (elmundo.cr) – En Costa Rica se estima que cada año se diagnostican 372 nuevos casos de leucemia2. De esa cifra, entre 15 y 20% corresponde a pacientes con leucemia mieloide crónica (LMC)3; la cual requiere una atención especializada debido a su evolución silenciosa. Se estima que cerca de la mitad de […]
Xa [...]#Cáncer #LMC #Leucemia #Novartis #Tendencias
https://elmundo.cr/tendencias/leucemia-mieloide-cronica-un-cancer-silencioso/
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CW: Schreinercontent
Zur Erinnerung:
https://berlin.social/@wikinaut/111987298157122488
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Also aufpassen, wenn #Schreiner mitspielt.
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CW: Comida - espaguetis empezando a cocer
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Singurul mijloc fără de greș de a ne mântui este urmarea neabătută a învățăturii Sfinților Părinți https://c.aparatorul.md/6v8nw #Biserică #bunalomului #CuvinteDuhovniceşti #DelaîntristareainimiilamângâierealuiDumnezeu #dreptateamarturisita #duhovnicesc #Făgăduinţă #Faptă #gură #invataturiiSfintilorParinti #Mântuirea #Ortodoxie #PărinteleDuhovnicesc #ratiunea #SfântulDuh #SfântulIgnatieBriancianinov #Spovedanie #TainaSpovedaniei #trupesc
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Singurul mijloc fără de greș de a ne mântui este urmarea neabătută a învățăturii Sfinților Părinți https://c.aparatorul.md/qun8i #Biserică #bunalomului #CuvinteDuhovniceşti #DelaîntristareainimiilamângâierealuiDumnezeu #dreptateamarturisita #duhovnicesc #Făgăduinţă #Faptă #gură #invataturiiSfintilorParinti #Mântuirea #Ortodoxie #PărinteleDuhovnicesc #ratiunea #SfântulDuh #SfântulIgnatieBriancianinov #Spovedanie #TainaSpovedaniei #trupesc
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#IntoTheBreach mialo powazne problemy na 1. mapie w walce z #fnatic, a teraz - na mapie rywala - robi sobie z nimi tzw. "jechanke" 😆
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Dzisiaj mialo miejsce ladowanie na ksiezycu japonskiego ladownika #HakutoR - miala to byc pierwsza komercyjna misja tego typu - niestety, z ladownikiem nie ma lacznosci, co oznacza albo awarie, albo to, ze Hakuto-R po prostu sie rozbil. Za kilka dni nad miejscem ladowania ma przeleciec sonda, ktora zrobi zdjecia i wtedy bedzie wiadomo co sie tak naprawde stalo
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Gáspár Miklós #Tamás ist gestorben.
@proufos sprach 2020 mit ihm über die autoritäre Formierung in Ost und West: https://jungle.world/artikel/2020/07/die-gleichheit-erscheint-als-elitaer
2015 erschien von ihm auf Deutsch bei Mandelbaum »Kommunismus nach 1989«: https://www.mandelbaum.at/buecher/gaspar-miklos-tamas/kommunismus-nach-1989 -
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Moderates, Progressives, Communists and Protestants: the thread about 122 years of local political change in Edinburgh
For no good reason, I decided to make a chart that shows the changing political make-up of Edinburgh’s municipal government in the last 124 years. It’s a graph whose changing colours and gradients tell lots of different political and historical stories about municipal government in that time, so let’s pick apart 124 years of Edinburgh’s political local history and find out what was going on and why, shall we?
Seat make-up of Edinburgh Town / District / City Council after Municipal Elections, 1920-presentFirst things first, we need to get a few things out of the way. In doing so it helps to avoid coming to the wrong conclusions about the graph and helps to understand what’s going on in the background and how the local electoral system has changed over time.
Until 1974, people voted for the Town Council, which was the elected1 component of what was known formally as the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Council of the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh but almost universally as just the Corporation. The city was divided up into wards, as it is now, and each ward had three councillors, one of whom was elected each year on rotation. Each councillor served a three year term after which they retired but could stand again for re-election. This meant that voters were expected to vote annually for one councillor, the ballots of which were always held in the first week of November until in 1948 they were shifted to May. If a councillor stepped down or died during their term of office there would either be a by-election or if it was close to the next election then two seats would be up for grabs. Very occasionally, the entire Town Council was up for vote, e.g. after the amalgamation of Edinburgh and Leith in 1920 and when the date of ballots moved from November to May in 1948.
The Town Council in April 1961, the Lord Provost (John Greig Dunbar) and Bailies (senior Magistrates) sit at the head of the meeting. The Labour members are on the left, the Progressives on the right © Edinburgh City LibrariesIn 1974, voters went to the polls to vote for members of the new District Council. The District was the lower tier of municipal government established by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. Edinburgh, Mid-, East and West Lothian Districts together formed the upper tier; Lothian Regional Council. This new system came into effect on May 16th 1975 and had votes every three (later four) years for the entire council, with a single councillor elected per ward on a first-past-the-post system. In 1995, voters went to the polls for the unitary authority of the City (of Edinburgh) Council as a result of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 which abolished the Regional Councils and devolved their powers to new unitary authorities based roughly on the Districts (or closely, in the case of Edinburgh). City Council elections followed the same electoral system as the District until 2007, when the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 changed this to a multi-member ward system, with three or four councillors elected every five years by proportional representation.
n.b. The graphs do not show the results of any intermediate by-elections, or the proportion of votes cast, it only shows the proportion of seats on the council that were held by each political grouping after the election of that year.
1920s. Moderates and Socialists
Edinburgh Town Council make-up 1920-30Our graph starts at 1920, when a full Town Council election was held on account of Leith having just been incorporated in to the City under the terms of the Edinburgh Boundaries Extension and Tramways Act 1920. The city was completely dominated at this time by the purple of the Moderates – not a formal party, but a political bloc of small-c conservatives, Liberals, Unionists, Liberal-Unionists and Independents who were strongly aligned to the Church of Scotland and whose purpose was largely to keep the right sort of people running the city and keep the red Socialists2 of Labour out.
Central Edinburgh Constituency Labour Party banner, 1925. © Edinburgh City LibrariesThe Moderates were effective in the latter purpose but inevitably Edinburgh’s first Labour councillor was elected on November 2nd 1909 when dentist John Alexander Young was returned for the Dalry ward. Although by 1930 Labour had crept slowly up to sixteen councillors – after a jump from 6 to 14 in 1926, (just shy of 1/4 of the Council – there was still no sign of the city “going red” as was threatening in Glasgow. Just peeping in at the top in 1930 is the thin grey line of a single independent councillor, Alexander Thomson, who would shift his allegiance to the Moderates in 1933.
1930s. Progressives and Protestants
Edinburgh Town Council make-up 1930-44Between 1930 and 1940 there were two big changes in the Town Council – none of which actually affected who actually ran the City. In 1936 the loose, purple assemblage of the Moderates re-constituted themselves as the dark blue band of the Progressives, a more formally constituted party to counter the threat posed by Labour. On the formation of the Glasgow Progressives, where by now Labour was in control of the Town Council, the Scotsman described them as “an organisation which would effectively combat the Socialist menace, break down the apathy of many citizens, and co-ordinate all Moderate opinion in the city.” The other big change during this time was the brief but rapid rise and fall of the black band of John Cormack’s Protestant Action Society.
The banner of Loyal Orange Lodge no. 188, who style themselves “Cormack’s Protestant Defenders” on parade in Edinburgh, Lodge photo from public facebook group.Protestant Action were an extreme, anti-Catholic organisation whose basic platform was “No Popery“. Cormack made a habit of causing trouble wherever he could, stoking sectarian tensions in overcrowded and underprivileged wards, whipping up his supporters into violence and occasional riots, but always careful to be able to absolve himself of the blame. He formed his party in 1933 and in 1934’s election it got one councillor on 6% of the popular vote. By 1935 it got 21% and three seats, peaking in 1936 with a worrying 31% of the vote and nine seats. But not even Cormack’s force of oratory could hold his unruly grouping together; the established Protestant power of the Orange Order would have little to do with them. They picked fights with the fascists and the communists and then they picked fights amongst themselves. Support for Protestant Action soon waned and in the last pre-war municipal election of 1938 they had dropped back to 12% and 6 seats. John Cormack however would cling on to his seat in South Leith, becoming the “Father of the Council” in 1956 as its longest serving member. This seniority entitled him to the office of Bailie, one that conferred significant authority. He retired in 1961.
Post-war. Labour Rising
Edinburgh Town Council make-up 1944-55On the outbreak of war in 1939, the Government suspended municipal elections for the duration and so the Town Council sat, as it was, for the duration. Its representation did change however in 1940 when Dalry Labour councillors David Stephen (1938 election intake) and George Boath (1939 by-election) resigned their party and changed allegiance to the dark red band of the Communists. With no by-elections possible, they continued to serve under this particular banner until elections re-started in 1945 when they were duly voted out at the first opportunity.
Except from “Old Street, Edinburgh” by William Wilson, 1935. A scene looking up the old Elder Street to St. James Square and showing canvassers for the forthcoming general election. CC-by-NC National Galleries ScotlandIn line with the national trend, Labour saw an upsurge in post-war popularity, with its share of 40% of the popular vote translating to an increase to 27 seats, or 40% of the Town Council. This position was reversed in 1949 when they went back to 15 seats and 22% of the popular vote. Again this mirrored popular, national discontent with the Labour government and a recovery in Conservative fortunes. It was not until 1955 that Labour had managed to regain the ground it had lost to the Progressives six years previous, so the political status quo in the city was maintained throughout the decade. Protestant Action lost their seats coming up for re-election in 1945 and 1946, with only John Cormack able to cling on, as the thin black line at the bottom of the graph, from 1947 onwards.
1955-65. Progressive Decline
Edinburgh Town Council make-up 1955-65The story of the next ten years was one of a long, slow waning in the fortunes of the Progressives. Throughout the decade Labour was able to make ground against them, until by the 1962 election both parties polled 38.5% of the popular vote, and in 1963 for the first time ever in Edinburgh Labour briefly surpassed the Progressives by this measure, 39.6% vs. 36.0%. But the three year system meant it was a long, slow process to effect political change although Labour had narrowed the gap between them and the Progressives to a single seat (32 vs. 33) by 1964, they were never quite able to bridge it. It cannot be seen in this chart, but in 1965 the Labour local vote collapsed to 27.9%, their worst since 1949, and the Progressives recovered to 58% after a run of five bad years. A new entrant onto the political scene in 1957 was Lady Morton (Hilda Sherwood Morton), who was elected for the orange strip of the Liberals in Merchiston ward. She was the first of her party to do so after it began to stand a few candidates in the city in 1955; by 1963 they had picked up four more for a total of five.
1965-74. End of the Old Order
Edinburgh Town Council make-up 1965-74The next ten years following 1965 saw the first big shake-ups on the Edinburgh local political scene beyond the glacially slow 50 year rise of Labour. Most importantly, it was the decade in which party political politics, which had been more or less kept out of Municipal Government for the last 50 years, finally took over. Firstly, in 1962 the Unionist party started standing candidates. This was a centre-right political party that stood for Westminster elections in Scotland and that was aligned to the (English) Conservatives. In other parts of Scotland the National Liberal Party stood; both they and the Unionists took the Conservative whip in the House of Commons. In 1965 the Unionists formally merged with the Conservatives to form the Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party, joined in 1968 by the National Liberals. Just as the Moderates had given way to the Progressives, so to did the Progressives give way to the Conservatives, but over a much longer timescale. Note that the press had long called both the Progressives and the Unionists “Tories“. Most of the Progressive old guard continued to stand as such, but new candidates stood instead as Conservatives. The result was that after their first candidates were elected in 1962, the light blue band of the Conservatives gradually and seamlessly usurped the old party, which finally died out alongside the long-established Town Council in 1974.
During this period, the Labour party found its position for a while squeezed between the strengthened Tory bloc and the insurgent yellow blob of the Scottish National Party, which enjoyed a brief flurry of popularity after Winnie Ewing’s breakthrough victory in the 1967 Hamilton by-election. In 1968 they swelled to 35% of the popular local vote in Edinburgh and by 1969 had ten councillors, before rapdily collapsing back to local indifference by 1972 with just 2.9% of the vote. The first Scottish nationalist candidate had stood for the Town Council way back in 1932 but no more stood until 1956-59 when their handful of candidates polled less than 1% of the popular vote.
Jack Kane, Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1972-75; official portrait by Alexander Goudie. True to his down-to-earth form, he has eschewed donning his official robes. He was the first Lord Provost to decline the honorary knighthood that his position conferred. © Museums & Galleries EdinburghBy 1972, the SNP threat had gone, the Progressives were in terminal decline and Labour was recovering, and as a result it finally managed to become the largest party on the council, with 33 seats to the opposition’s 30. It had only taken them 63 years since their first councillor was sworn in! Their leader, Jack Kane, was elected Lord Provost that year, the first Labour holder of that post. With the final elections to the old Town Council in 1973, Labour had 34 seats and finally had a majority!
1974-95. District Days
Edinburgh District Council make-up 1974-95In 1974, the residents of Edinburgh went to the polls to vote for their new District Council, which replaced a system of local Government that had been going in one form or another for the past 700 years or more. Interestingly, although archaic titles such as Lord Provost and Bailie were meant to be swept away, they were kept on as honorific positions. The District Council performed many of the functions of the old Edinburgh Corporation, but strategic issues such as Transport, Education, Regional Planning, Police and Fire were run by the upper tier of Regional Councils. The District also expanded the boundaries of the City to include outlying areas such as Currie, Balerno, Kirkliston and South Queensferry, which had previously been semi-independent Districts (or in the case of Queensferry, a Burgh) within the old Midlothian County (thank you to Paul Cockburn for pointing this fact out).
Lothian Regional Council ghost sign, 20 plus years after that authority ceased to be. Photo © SelfThe results of the first election saw the Conservatives come out as the largest party, with one more seat than Labour. They lacked an overall majority but got it at the next ballot in 1977, with 34 of 67 seats. This marked the high point of the Conservative party in Edinburgh’s local government, and they have been in decline ever since. After the election of 1984, Labour increasingly dominated local politics. At the final District Council election in 1992, they took 30 of 62 seats, with the (by now) Liberal Democrats holding the balance of power. But by now there were more than two big parties in local politics and the single member wards with first-past-the-post electoral system did not function fairly. The Liberal Democrats in 1992 got 15% of the popular vote but only 3% of the seats. The SNP got 14% of the vote and no seats! Labour were flattered by the system, getting 48% of the seats on 29% of the vote.
1995-. The Rainbow Council
City of Edinburgh Council make-up 1995-2022It was all change again in 1995, when voters at the local elections now went to choose their City Council, a unitary authority based largely on the boundaries and functions of the old District but with the additional responsibilities of the Regions, which would disappear the following year, also. There was no fundamental changes however; Labour continued to dominate, the Conservatives continued their decline and the Liberal Democrats filled the void for the sort of voter who would once have been religiously Moderate or Progressive but who found they couldn’t bring themselves to vote Conservative due to national issues. By 2003, Labour retained a slim majority (31 of 59 seats), with the Liberal Democrats the next largest bloc on 15.
The SNP had a real problem however – they were reliably getting 15-30% of the popular vote in the Council elections but rarely picked up seats; they gone 1.7% of the seats on 21.5% of the vote in 1999. Labour in contrast had more than 50% of the seats on less than one third of the vote. This democratic deficit was remedied in 2007 when a new system of multi-member wards elected by Single Transferable Vote (proportional representation) was brought in. This had the immediate effect of giving the long-suppressed SNP a huge boost, with one fifth of the popular vote and council seats gained that year. The change was disastrous for Labour however, whose commanding position was built on the shaky foundations of an unrepresentative electoral system and their number of seats more than halved, to one much more in line with their overall popularity. The changes also let in the Scottish Green Party, who after standing candidates in one form or another in the city since 1980 finally picked up 3 seats. Rainbow politics had finally arrived!
The story of the rest of the period covered by our graph is largely now the story of Scottish and British national politics. The Conservatives continued to decline in popularity, but got a post-2014 Independence Referendum boost; the Liberal Democrats were punished heavily in 2012 after their coalition government at Westminster with the former party, and their recovery has been slow and largely concentrated in their traditional base of the west of the city. Labour have been largely unable to capitalise on these changes however – caught between any number of local and national issues – as the SNP and Green popular vote has held up and continued to creep upwards, with a combined 40% in 2017 and 2022.
Portobello political window in 2014. National politics has now come to dominate local politics. © Edinburgh City LibrariesThe last local election in 2022 was one fought heavily on manifestos of national issues, despite these not being something that any local Council has any jurisdiction in. As a result, it saw the Conservative turn in their worst ever result for the Moderate-Progressive-Conservative bloc in the 122 years of our graph, with just 18% of the vote and 14% (nine) seats. Labour managed only 19% of the vote and 20% of the seats, their second-worst result in 100 years and yet somehow managed to pull various political strings and favours to run a minority administration; something the SNP failed to have sufficient support from their opposition to do, despite remaining the largest party by both seats and popular vote.
Who knows what 2027 might bring!
- There was an honorary seat on the Town Council for each of the Deacon Conveners (senior office holders) of the Merchant Company and the Incorporated Trades, meaning two members of the Town Council were unelected ↩︎
- The Scotsman perceived the Socialists as an extreme threat to the established order of the city and was strongly and persistently hostile to them in the 1920s through to the 1940s. In its reporting it almost always referred to them as just “the Socialists” ↩︎
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The thread about the changing face and footprint of the Tron Kirk and why it’s now 5 miles away from where it began
This thread was originally written and published in November 2019.
Historic Environment Scotland tweeted a “Spot the difference?” competition about the Tron Kirk in Edinburgh. It observed the differences in the steeple between a pre-1824 Engraving and a post-1824 photograph. I have animated these into a transition (below)to better show the changes.
Tron Kirk, #ThenAndThen. Original images © Canmore, 465068 and 421920The obvious change here is that the squat Dutch steeple has been replaced by a much taller stone pinnacle, supported by 4 masonry columns. The reason behind this is the Great Fire of Edinburgh, which started on the day of the original tweet – November 15th – back in 1824. It raged for 5 days, toppling the wooden framed, lead-covered spire of the Tron Kirk in the process. The spire was rebuilt in stone in 1828, but not to its original design. But there’s another, bigger difference between the original Tron Kirk and the one seen in both of these images. Look below. Can you spot it?
The Tron Kirk by John Elphinstone, 1740That’s right – the outer bays are different and there is a whole extra bay window on the left (east) side. The reason is that the whole church had to be “truncated” in 1785 to allow South Bridge to be driven through on one side (the left, East) and Blair Street (the right, West) on the other. Notice also that at this time the tenements on either side were built right up to the church and abutted it, and wooden booths wound their way around the front. There was not really sentimentality at this time in Scotland about the exteriors of churches being particularly sacred; it was what went on inside that was important.
The Tron Kirk being rebuilt in 1788, from the Hutton Drawings of Midlothian. CC-BY-NC National Library of ScotlandTron is an odd-sounding word to my ear. It sounds a bit Norse to me, but I can assure you it’s good Scots, from the Old French Trone. The name dates back to the public weighing beams, which were known as trons. The Salt or Over Tron stood in the centre of the High Steet near where the Tron Kirk was built.
Gordon of Rothiemay’s map, 1637, showing The Tron Kirk and the Salt or Over Tron. Rothiemay annotated his map in Latin, with the tron being “Libra” or balance. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandThere were other Trons – the Butter Tron stood at the head of the old West Bow – but the Salt Tron was the principal, and it was where all the merchandise imported into Leith had to be brought to be publicly weighed and taxed. It lent its name to a parish forming the south east of the Old Town and the Southside one of the 4 old parishes of Reformation Edinburgh. The Tron parish was created in 1598 but worshipped at St. Giles, which had been split into 4 separate parish churches internally by stone walls after the Reformation. The congregation had been preached to by John Knox and saw themselves as “representing the spirit” of Knox. Coincidentally, Jenny Geddes – of stool throwing fame – was a market seller at the Tron.
If you’re not familiar with the story, she is reputed to have thrown her stool at the minister, Dean James Hannay, when he attempted to preach from the Book of Common Prayer. In those days, if you were common you stood, or brought your own seat to the church. Geddes reputedly shouted “De’il gie you colic, the wame o’ ye, fause thief; daur ye say Mass in my lug?” at the minister. The riot was probably more organised and pre-meditated than the popular tale suggests. Nevertheless, Charles I’s attempt to introduce Anglican service into the Scottish Kirk was a disastrous failure that precipitated a war with Scotland that he lost.
The riot at St. Giles’ on the reading of the Book of Common prayer that formented the Bishops’ War and eventually contributed to the “War of the Three Kingdoms”When Charles I raised Edinburgh from a burgh to a city in (I think) 1638, he also raised St. Giles to Cathedral status as part of his program of Anglicising the Scottish Kirk. As such this displaced the Tron congregation and and a new church was ordered to be built for them. It took 10 years to build in total, by which time the Scots army had handed Charles over to the English parliament. It was ready to be dedicated in 1641 as “Christ’s Kirk at the Tron”, by which time the majority in Scotland was firmly Presbyterian. I think this would make the Tron the first purpose-built Presbyterian kirk in Scotland?
The Town Council of Edinburgh was obliged (reluctantly) to build and pay for the church by Charles I who threatened to withhold tax duties from the city if they didn’t comply. It was built by the King’s master mason, John Mylne, and his brother Alexander. It is for this reason that over the door of the Tron is the crest of the City of Edinburgh (a 3-towered castle supported by a deer and a maiden) plus the engraving (in Latin) “This building the citizens of Edinburgh to Christ and his Church, in the year 1641“
Above the door of The Tron Kirk. © CanmoreAn engraving of the original Tron. This picture shows the Church to be symettrical in elevation, but maps and prints show that the right (west) side always had a truncated 2nd bay with no window.
Engraving of The Tron Kirk by Pierre FourdrinierThe Tron was an important church and was preferred by the upper classes of Old Town Edinburgh over St. Giles.
David Allan’s sketch “View of the High Street looking up from John Knox’s House towards the Tron Church” c. 1785. CC-BY-NC National Galleries ScotlandThis thread was started by the observation that the Tron originally had a Dutch-style steeple. They were common in these parts; South Leith had one.
South Leith parish kirk, 1836. © Edinburgh City LibrariesNorth Leith had one too.
North Leith parish kirk, 1855. © Edinburgh City LibrariesAnd Holyrood Abbey church had one too, when it was used as the parish church for the Canongate after the Reformation and before a purpose-built Kirk was constructed.
Holyrood Abbey church, from panorama by Thomas Sandby c. 1750. CC-BY-NC National Galleries ScotlandThen along came classical-obsessed Georgians and even Gothic-obsessed Victorians and the appearance of Edinburgh churches took something of a different direction. It was these architects who gave the truncated Tron Kirk it’s enormous spire when it was rebuilt. No apologies offered but I really find Victorian church architecture hugely boring.
As a parish kirk, the Tron was deconsecrated as early as 1952 due to rapid depopulation of Old Town Edinburgh and declining post-war Church attendance rates. The City bought it back, but has struggled to find a use for it ever since. Various craft markets, tat stalls and pop-up bars have come and gone and for extended periods it has been locked up.
The best use it has seen (in my opinion) that it has seen is as a heritage centre. You see, because the Tron is (relatively) new in an Old Town, underneath its wooden floors lurk the foundations and closes of medieval Edinburgh.
Canmore images of the remarkable Medieval ruins preserved beneath The Tron.Except that’s not quite the end of the Tron. When it closed, it did so because the bulk of its congregation departed the Old Town as a result of slum clearances. Many were given new Council houses in the Moredun area of the City, and the congregation moved in to a new parish church, the Moredun Tron Kirk (now Gilmerton & Moredun Tron).
Moredun Tron Kirk. © South East Edinburgh Churches Acting TogetherNote 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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Oddawałeś krew? Twoje zaświadczenie w IKP miało przewidywalny identyfikator
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The thread about Asa Wass & Son; the rags-to-riches rag-and-bone men of Victorian Edinburgh
This thread was originally written and published in January 2020.
There was for many years a Steptoe-like institution in Fountainbridge by the name of Asa Wass & Son Ltd. Asa is a biblical Hebrew name and Wass an ancient Anglo-Norman surname, most common in Asa’s time in the Midlands of England. According to my Dad, who grew up in nearby Dalry in the 1950s, the correct local pronunciation is “Azzy Woz“. There is an old Edinburgh tongue-twister which goes;
ASA WASS & SON Ltd. Licensed. Registered.Izzy Azzy A’ways Iz, or Izzy Azzy Woz?
Asa Wass tongue-twister, source, (Is He as He Always is, or is He As He Was / Asa Wass?)Asa Wass was born in Morley, Yorkshire in 1833 to Judith and Stephen Wass, a carpenter and moulder. According to the 1851 census, when he was 18, he was trained in his father’s trade. He married Hannah Hirst in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, in 1858 when he was 25 and she 24. They moved to Edinburgh and their first daughter, Elizabeth, was born here in 1859 within the year. More children followed; Judith Ann (Judith was the name of both Asa and Hannah’s mothers) in 1861; Clara in 1866; Thomas Henry in 1868; John Arthur in 1871; Sarah Hannah in 1874.
The “Mapping Jewish life in Edinburgh” publication by the The Research Network in Jewish Studies at Edinburgh University lists the Wasses as Jewish, and indeed Asa and Hannah are names from Hebrew. However, Asa’s mother was baptised into the Wesleyan Methodist Church; he and his siblings were baptised into the Church of England and Asa and Hannah were married in a civil ceremony, so I am not sure on the basis for this assertion. The Wass family are buried under a Celtic cross but I suppose that might just be fashion!
In 1861, the family was resident in the humble surroundings of the Old Town at 235 Cowgate (at the foot of Blair Street), with Asa’s occupation being rag merchant. They are first advertised in Edinburgh in the 1863 Post Office Directory as being at 4 St. Leonard Street, which was the family home, and the shop and yard were now at 260 Cowgate. so we can make an assumption that they are not living and trading in the same place. The entry in the PO Directory is also a symbol of success as it means that they can afford to pay for the listing.
Cowgate by James Skene, 1817. 235 Canongate was in this range of buildings, about in the middle of the illustration. Little would have changed between the time this sketch was made and the Wass family living here. © Edinburgh City LibrariesIn 1871 the Wass family residence and the business itself are moved to 63 Fountainbridge, where they are listing themselves as “woollen rag merchants“. This was on the corner of Lothian Road and Early Grey Street, so a prime position to trade from. In 1878, Asa Wass (“Broker, Fountainbridge“) his wife and his manager James Erskine were found guilty at the Burgh Court of contravening the Brokers Act for purchasing “three small quantities of old hair without being in possession of the necessary licence“. Each was fined £1 with the option of 3 days imprisonment instead. Despite this curious brush with the law they obviously prosper, as within ten years the business has moved to a much larger premises in a yard at 161 Fountainbridge and the family are at Spyfield Cottage in Colinton. They have a shop unit that occupies 153-159 and 163 Fountainbridge and at number 161 is the pend given access to their yard.
1944 OS Town Plan showing 161 Fountainbridge through the pend. WM = Weighing Machine. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandThe same census that places them here also records only 12 Wasses in Scotland, all in Midlothian and 9 of them being Asa, his wife and his children. They are still living in Colinton in the 1891 in the census, by which time there are an entire 16 Wasses in Scotland. Asa’s occupation is still recorded as being the humble-sounding “Rag, Rope, Paper and Metal Merchant“. However we begin to get a real sense of his success in business; the family had a live-in servant, Margaret Catcher, with them in Colinton and the PO Directory lists a house in town at 17 Leamington Terrace, as good a neighbourhood then as it is now. In 1893, Asa Wass was given permission by the Dean of Guild Court to erect stores at his yard at 161 Fountainbridge.
The photograph that I have found of Asa Wass shows a dignified, respectable-looking Victorian gentleman, clearly somebody who was doing well in life. Edinburgh had a big glue & gelatine manufactory near Fountainbride at Cox’s in Gorgie which demanded bones and skins and both the rivers of the Esk and Water of Leith supported a paper industry who made use of copious quantities of linen rags in their process. A central clearing house, the General Rag Warehouse, had been established in the city as early as 1793 to act as a middle-man between the paper makers and the individual collectors of rags. Rags would be sorted into one of five different categories; Superfine, Fine, Blue, Second and Grey, before being sold, and there was a big premium for the better quality. There was a ready demand in the city for Asa’s skins, bones and rags and he obviously made a lot out of these.
Asa Wass, from Ancestry.comHe passed away aged 66 in on November 10th 1898 at the family home at 11 Morningside Park, a very respectable address. His funeral was held on Monday 14th at 3PM at the Dean Cemetery – not where you neccesarily expect to find a rag-and-bone man buried. Asa left an estate worth about £160,000 in today’s money. All the evidence points to him having done very well out of his trade. Hannah Wass continued to live at Morningside Park and died there in 1911.
Wass family gravestone in the Dean Cemetery in EdinburghOn the death of Asa, his eldest son Thomas Henry takes over the running of the business, although the properties are is in his mother’s name and it remains known as Asa Wass & Son. However the following year the entire business is listed for sale, and the year after a shop that they used in Rose Street is also sold. By the 1915 valuation rolls the business and proprietor of 161 Fountainbridge are Asa Wass & Son Ltd, but with Thomas Henry in charge. He lived in a pleasant house at 6 Merchiston Grove and died in 1922 at an even larger and more pleasant one at 3 Midmar Avenue, leaving an estate worth at least £400k in today’s money. His son was also Thomas Henry, known as Harry, but I am not clear if he took over from his father. There is a photo of the Wass nag and cart in 1925, by which point Asa has not been around for nearly a quarter of a century, his son too has died, but it still trades under their name and reputation.
Wass Horse & Cart in 1925. CC-By-NC Edinburgh CollectedIn 1941, Asa Wass & Son Ltd. occupies 161, 169 and 177 Fountainbridge, telephone number 21544. By this time, they are the only bone merchants listed “in the book” in Edinburgh. The are also listed under rag merchants and metal merchants and have taken out a not insubstantial advert. Business is clearly still prosperous and the local paper and glue industries still have a use for the wares of Asa Wass & Son Ltd. and of course wartime Britain could not get enough scrap metal.
Asa Wass & Son advert in the 1940-41 PO DirectoryThe business ceased trading and was abandoned in the early 1960s, by this time it had traded for longer under the Asa Wass & Son name for longer than either Asa himself was involved. The yard became a haunt for local children to play in and there are some photos from this period here; http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_B/0_buildings_-_asa_wass_yard.htm. The whole area was very run down and was swept away in the early 1970s when Scottish & Newcastle relocated the Fountain Brewery there (from over the road) .
Asa and Hannah’s eldest daughter, Elizabeth, moved to Devonshire on her marriage and when she died in 1934 was recorded as living at a house called Dunedin Crediton, one wonders if this was some sort of family joke about the source of the family’s wealth. Her younger brother, John Arthur Wass, was confined to the Crichton Institution for Lunatics in Dumfries in June 1890 around the age of 19, far from home. This is another indication of the family’s wealth; this was the best sort of place money could afford to send somebody with a mental health condition at this time. He was discharged around a year later, but is admitted to the Aberdeen Royal Asylum in 1895. In 1899 he is transferred to the Dundee Asylum, from where he escapes in November of that year.
John Arthur Wass’s admission to Dundee Asylum in 1899. NRS MC2/478John Arthur was a private patient (i.e. he or his family were wealthy enough to pay), and was suffering from moral insanity (“madness consisting in a morbid perversion of the natural feelings, affections, inclinations, temper, habits, moral dispositions, and natural impulses, without any remarkable disorder or defect of the interest or knowing and reasoning faculties, and particularly without any insane illusion or hallucinations“) according to his Notice of Admission to Dundee in 1899. After his escape he emigrates to the US in 1901 (I am not clear if he was ever “recaptured”) and here he settles down, marries and becomes a poultryman, in Monmouth, New Jersey. By 1915 he was living in New York as a landscape gardener and by 1920 was a sculptor. I sincerely hope he found peace here after the torment of his years in Victorian asylums.
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