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https://www.fogolf.com/1255430/i-faced-the-head-pro-at-stockbridge-golf-club-no-handicap-match-play/ I Faced the HEAD PRO at Stockbridge Golf Club (No Handicap Match Play!) #Club #faced #GaryMartinGolf #Golf #GolfChannel #GolfClubs #GolfClubsVideos #GolfClubsVlog #GolfClubsYouTube #GolfEquipment #GolfEquipmentVideos #GolfEquipmentVlog #GolfEquipmentYouTube #GolfMatch #GolfMates #GolfPro #GolfVlogs #golfer #handicap #Match #PeterFinchGolf #play #PlayingGolf #pro #RickShielsGolf #ROGERBROADGOLF #Stockbridge #STOCKSBRIDGEGOLFCLUB #YORSKHIRE
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https://www.fogolf.com/1255430/i-faced-the-head-pro-at-stockbridge-golf-club-no-handicap-match-play/ I Faced the HEAD PRO at Stockbridge Golf Club (No Handicap Match Play!) #Club #faced #GaryMartinGolf #Golf #GolfChannel #GolfClubs #GolfClubsVideos #GolfClubsVlog #GolfClubsYouTube #GolfEquipment #GolfEquipmentVideos #GolfEquipmentVlog #GolfEquipmentYouTube #GolfMatch #GolfMates #GolfPro #GolfVlogs #golfer #handicap #Match #PeterFinchGolf #play #PlayingGolf #pro #RickShielsGolf #ROGERBROADGOLF #Stockbridge #STOCKSBRIDGEGOLFCLUB #YORSKHIRE
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/483502/ Birmingham Museum of Art director to step down after 20 years #art #ArtDirector #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #Birmingham #BirminghamMuseum #boettcher #ceo #Dedication #Design #director #Éire #Entertainment #GrahamBoettcher #IE #Ireland #joy #leadership #leaving #Massachusetts #Museum #NormanRockwellMuseum #Passion #People #stockbridge #Wednesday #year
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Review: CATA, a Spanish restaurant in Stockbridge
I think CATA, a Spanish tapas, wine, and coffee restaurant just off Stockbridge, well, effectively in Stockbridge, on North West Circus Place, is a brilliant venue for hud…
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Review: CATA, a Spanish restaurant in Stockbridge
I think CATA, a Spanish tapas, wine, and coffee restaurant just off Stockbridge, well, effectively in Stockbridge, on North West Circus Place, is a brilliant venue for huddled, quiet conversations. Whenever I have visited, i…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanWine #SpanishWine #cata #Restaurants #solo #Spanish #spanishwine #stockbridge #tapas #Wine
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Review: CATA, a Spanish restaurant in Stockbridge https://www.diningandcooking.com/2493866/review-cata-a-spanish-restaurant-in-stockbridge/ #cata #Restaurants #solo #Spanish #SpanishWine #stockbridge #tapas #Wine
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A little New Town sunshine to cheer up a dreich Sunday afternoon!
Broughton Street Lane
21x15cm acrylic & oil on board
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Showing as part of the Graystone Gallery upcoming Winter Exhibition : 14 November - 17 January
Patisserie
21x15cm acrylic & oil on board
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Showing as part of the Graystone Gallery
Winter Exhibition : 14 November - 17 JanuaryDene
15x21cm acrylic & oil on board
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Nine paintings available NOW at Graystone Gallery!! Winter Exhibition opens soon
14 November - 17 JanuaryAcceptance | Broughton Street Lane | Dene
Homecoming Study | Nightwalking | Patisserie
Rise | Serenade | Strandgraystonegallery.com | Ownart
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Showing as part of Graystone Gallery upcoming Winter Exhibition
14 November - 17 JanuaryStrand
15x21cm acrylic & oil on board
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Delivered today to Graystone Gallery (along with some limited edition prints) in preparation for their upcoming Winter Exhibition
14 Nov - 17 JanDene | Strand
Homecoming Study | Patisserie
21x15cm acrylic & oil on board
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Showing as part of the Graystone Gallery upcoming Winter Exhibition : 14 November - 17 January
Homecoming Study
15x21cm acrylic & oil on board
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For this week's Colour Collective (a weekly art challenge based around a single, allocated colour) here's my offering with a tiny but mighty splash of #Heather
Acceptance
40x30cm acrylic on paper
In stock at Graystone Gallery
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Getting these babies framed ready to show as part of the Graystone Gallery upcoming Winter Exhibition : 14 Nov - 17 Jan
Dene | Strand
Homecoming Study | Patisserie
21x15cm acrylic & oil on board
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For this week's Colour Collective (a weekly art challenge based around a single, allocated colour) here's my offering for #Auburn
Patisserie
21x15cm acrylic & oil on board
Graystone Gallery Winter Exhibition from 14 Nov
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Coming to a gallery near you this autumn, see link for details.Patisserie
21x15cm acrylic & oil on board
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Dene, Water Of Leith
21x15cm acrylic & oil on board
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For this week's Colour Collective (a weekly art challenge based around an allocated single colour) here's a sliver of #StrawYellow
Broughton Street Lane
21x15cm acrylic & oil on board
Graystone Gallery Festival Exhibition til 31 Aug
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🚨 FINAL TEN DAYS!! 🚨
The Graystone Gallery FESTIVAL EXHIBITION ends next Sunday 31 AugustSERENADE
40x30cm acrylic on paper
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🚨 FINAL TEN DAYS!! 🚨
The Graystone Gallery FESTIVAL EXHIBITION ends next Sunday 31 AugustSERENADE
40x30cm acrylic on paper
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🚨 FINAL TEN DAYS!! 🚨
The Graystone Gallery FESTIVAL EXHIBITION ends next Sunday 31 AugustSERENADE
40x30cm acrylic on paper
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🚨 FINAL TEN DAYS!! 🚨
The Graystone Gallery FESTIVAL EXHIBITION ends next Sunday 31 AugustSERENADE
40x30cm acrylic on paper
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#Stockbridge #Edinburgh #Scotland#art #painting #cityscape #infrastructure
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CW: Sweary yarnbombing, Trump
Spotted in Stockbridge , I agree.
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New work showing at Graystone Gallery
FESTIVAL EXHIBITION : 19 July - 31 AugustSERENADE
40x30cm acrylic on paper
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New work showing at Graystone Gallery
FESTIVAL EXHIBITION : 19 July - 31 AugustSERENADE
40x30cm acrylic on paper
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New work showing at Graystone Gallery
FESTIVAL EXHIBITION : 19 July - 31 AugustSERENADE
40x30cm acrylic on paper
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New work showing at Graystone Gallery
FESTIVAL EXHIBITION : 19 July - 31 AugustSERENADE
40x30cm acrylic on paper
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New work showing at Graystone Gallery
FESTIVAL EXHIBITION : 19 July - 31 AugustSERENADE
40x30cm acrylic on paper
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New work showing at Graystone Gallery FESTIVAL EXHIBITION opens this weekend : 19 July - 31 August
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New work showing at Graystone Gallery FESTIVAL EXHIBITION opens this weekend : 19 July - 31 August
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New work showing at Graystone Gallery FESTIVAL EXHIBITION opens this weekend : 19 July - 31 August
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40x30cm acrylic on paper
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New work showing at Graystone Gallery FESTIVAL EXHIBITION opens this weekend : 19 July - 31 August
ACCEPTANCE
40x30cm acrylic on paper
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SNEAK PEEK : work already live on the Graystone Gallery website ahead of their FESTIVAL EXHIBITION opening this weekend!! 19 July - 31 August
Acceptance | Broughton Street Lane | Escape
Nightwalking | Rise | Serenade
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SNEAK PEEK : work already live on the Graystone Gallery website ahead of their FESTIVAL EXHIBITION opening this weekend!! 19 July - 31 August
Acceptance | Broughton Street Lane | Escape
Nightwalking | Rise | Serenade
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SNEAK PEEK : work already live on the Graystone Gallery website ahead of their FESTIVAL EXHIBITION opening this weekend!! 19 July - 31 August
Acceptance | Broughton Street Lane | Escape
Nightwalking | Rise | Serenade
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SNEAK PEEK : work already live on the Graystone Gallery website ahead of their FESTIVAL EXHIBITION opening this weekend!! 19 July - 31 August
Acceptance | Broughton Street Lane | Escape
Nightwalking | Rise | Serenade
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SNEAK PEEK : work already live on the Graystone Gallery website ahead of their FESTIVAL EXHIBITION opening this weekend!! 19 July - 31 August
Acceptance | Broughton Street Lane | Escape
Nightwalking | Rise | Serenade
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Last few days to catch the Spring Exhibition at the Graystone Gallery : finishes this weekend! All my works are available to buy via Ownart : simply splits the cost into ten interest free monthly installments!
Nightwalking • Containers (sold) • Broughton St La
Ascent Study | Colonnade
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One of my five paintings currently showing in the @GraystoneGallery Winter Exhibition
15 Nov - 26 JanSunshine On Leith
40x30cm acrylic on paper
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If you’ve lost a sign which says “FLATBREADS”, it was in the middle of Kerr Street, here in Stockbridge.
I picked it up, and put it by the bus stop, so that it wouldn’t get damaged, or damage any vehicles.
#Stockbridge #Edinburgh #Scotland #Signage #Flatbreads #Random
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Gabriel’s Road: the thread about how James Craig’s elegant and regular New Town grid is rudely interrupted
A tweet for #WorldTownPlanningDay from the The National Library of Scotland Map Library earlier (Nov. 8th 2019) threw up a reminder of one of my favourite, less weel kent features of Edinburgh’s first New Town. Namely, that James Craig’s otherwise regular Georgian grid of the First New town (red lines, principal streets of Princes / George / Queen Streets) of 1768 meets James Craig’s otherwise regular Georgian grid of St. James Square (green lines) of 1773 at a jarring, irregular and unsatisfactory angle. What’s this that about?
Ainslie’s Town Plan of 1804, decolourised, with red lines of the First New Town and green lines of St. James Square street grids annotated. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandClue 1 is in those dates. The two districts were planned 5 years apart. On Craig’s 1768 plan, the St. James area is still largely occupied by a portion of land known as Clelland’s Feu. (In Scottish land law, a Feu is a portion of land tenure.). This is a house with ample gardens and nursery land, all on a regular plan but offset at about 47 degrees from the New Town.
Clelland’s Feu from Craig’s 1768 Plan. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandA map of land ownership drawn up for the city in 1766 by John Laurie shows that Clelland’s Feu was only one of a number of pre-existing portions on this particular grid alignment and gives us Clue 2: looking at the dotted line below (which I’ve highlighted in red for you), the City did not own all of these parcels of land.
John Laurie. Plan of lands for the New Town of Edinburgh, 1766. The red / dotted line encloses the land owned by the City for development. The feus of Clelland, Syme, Hill, Moodie, Dickson and others lies outwith it. Crown copyright, NRS, RHP6080/1Mapping of the area of the New Town before Craig’s Plan is pretty scant, as it usually centres on the Old Town (indeed the land that became to be the New Town, the Barefoot’s Park, wasn’t yet even incorporated into the City and Royal Burgh), however a magnificent 1759 survey by Robert Robinson and John Fergus of the land north of the Old Town all the way to the Forth does exist. This captures Clelland’s Feu (spelled Clealand’s Few) and others, unfortunately this portion of is badly degraded and poorly conserved.
“Plan of the North of the City, with the town, harbour and citadel of Leith” by Fergus & Robinson, 1759. Personal photographs of the original copy in the archives of the City of Edinburgh © SelfBut from this we can at least see that a decade before the winning design for the New Town was approved there were already buildings and streets in the area respecting older boundaries and alignments – offset at that awkward 47 degrees to Craig’s grid. Five years after the latter was laid that out for the City, a private citizen – the writer (solicitor) Walter Ferguson – commissioned him to design a new square on the Clelland’s Feu. Also involved were two other lawyers with a financial interest in the Feu, Gray and Steuart.
James Craig by David Allan, with his calipers resting on a later version of his plan for the New Town with the large, central circus. His elevation of the Physician’s Hall on George Street lie on the ground with his dog.It should be noted that the Trustees of Heriot’s Hospital, as feudal superior (i.e. they held the land, on behalf of the Crown, and had sub-feud it to Ferguson, Gray and Steuart as vassals), tried to block this development in the courts but failed (they were trying to sue lawyers, after all!) Construction of St. James’ Square commenced at its southern edge in 1775, allegedly on or near the 17th of June and the British victory at the Battle of Bunker Hill, for which reason this corner became known as Bunker’s Hill. But that story might all be hooey! Stuart Harris – the historian of Edinburgh, who wrote the book on the street and placenames of the city – certainly thought so. He also notes that Ferguson, Gray and Steuart were all ardent Jacobites, and would meet annually in Steuart’s house to toast the birthday of Charles Edward “Bonnie Prince Charlie” Stuart. Harris goes on to suggest therefore that the St. James of St. James’ Square and the King of (Little) King Street is actually the Jacobite Old Pretender – James Francis Edward Stuart. This was something very risqué not 30 years after Culloden.
But that’s another story. Back on topic, in those early maps there’s something else tantalisingly hidden in plain sight. Clue 3: a loan (lane) that respects – but predates – the alignment of St. James Square. It runs in a straight line between the feus of Mr. Hogg and Mr Sim, and is walled in between them, before heading off northwest. I have highlighted it yellow below on Fergus and Robinson’s map.
Highlighted lane in yellow, on “Plan of the North of the City, with the town, harbour and citadel of Leith” by Fergus & Robinson, 1759. Personal photographs of the original copy in the archives of the City of Edinburgh © SelfThis is very tantalising as despite all the efforts of the Georgian developers, the Victorian rebuilders, the 20th century destroyers and the 21st century re-destroyers, this lane (and the western remnant of St. James’ Square) are still there!
The alignment of Gabriel’s Road (green line) and the western, surviving portion of St. James’ Square (pink highlight) overlaid on a contemporary ESRI aerial photo. The 3 domes of the Register Houses lie between the two.I am talking of course about the enigmatic Gabriel’s Road, a 126 foot (38.4m) long stretch of pavement that follows the ancient alignment of the lane which predates the Georgian city centre.
Gabriel’s Road, looking towards the Register House. CC-BY-SA Jim Barton.Rather than build over this section of the old lane, they built around, it and this block of West Register Street aligned its façades with it (Guildford Arms and Café Royal patrons will be more than familiar with this). Land ownership trumped town planning – as it frequently does to this day. Where the planners and builders hit an existing, irregular, land boundary which couldn’t be resolved, they simply went with it, and Gabriel’s Road became the boundary between the grid of the New Town and the grid of St. James’ square, aligned with the latter. This approach avoided the legal complexity (and cost) of trying to regularise it for the sake of a grid pattern.
Kirkwood’s town plan of 1819, which shows the building elevations, and predates the extensions to the Register House, clearly shows Gabriel’s Road as the boundary between the two grid systems. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandGabriel’s Road is an ancient right of way, which is why there is a gate and public access from Register Place through the Square outside the Royal Bank of Scotland head branch at 36 St. Andrew Square. So that is our case closed. Or is it? What have we here? Another Gabriel’s Road? Almost a mile away in Stockbridge? What’s that doing there? Surely just a coincidence?
Gabriel’s Road heritage street sign in Stockbridge, looking up the “Dummie steps”No, it’s not a coincidence at all, because it’s the same road (or lane). While the middle part has long since been built over and disappeared from view, either end escaped and survives. If we look at the 1804 town plan, before Saxe Coburg Place was laid out, we can see Gabriel’s Road clearly marked as “Foot Road“.
Ainslie’s 1804 Town Plan, the “Foot Road” on the boundary between Heriot’s property and Rose Esq. being Gabriel’s Road. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandThis section of the path was long ago known locally as the Dummie Steps. The steps part is obviously because the steep path was stepped and the first because because over the wall was the Deaf and Dumb Institution (the Dummiehoose) of the city, built here in 1823. Dummie is the Scots for dumb. The building of the Stockbridge Dummiehoose is now part of Edinburgh Academy.
The old Deaf & Dumb Institute building, now incorporated into the Edinburgh Academy. CC-BY-SA 2.0 Kim TraynorDummie is where the Edinburgh district of Dumbiedykes (once Dummiedikes) got its name, from the institute for the dumb (the Dummiehoose) set up by James Braidwood there in 1763, and the walls (dykes) that enclosed the land in that neighbourhood. Walter Scott had borrowed the name for a comical character in Heart of Midlothian, but changed it by inserting the b-, to give us Dumbiedykes. The change stuck and the street names and neighbourhood took up the extra letter, even though it should be silent.
Anyway, back to the lane. What is it and why is it there? Looking back at – and zooming out a bit – on that amazing 1759 map by Fergus & Robinson, we can see it clearly cutting northwest across what was then farmland, where the Second or Northern New Town and the eastern expansion of Stockbridge would later be built. The lane forms as straight a line as possible (around old land boundaries) between Inverleith House and what at one time would have been the northern access to the city of Edinburgh down Leith Wynd.
Highlighted Gabriel’s Road in blue, on “Plan of the North of the City, with the town, harbour and citadel of Leith” by Fergus & Robinson, 1759. Personal photographs of the original copy in the archives of the City of Edinburgh © SelfAt its very northern end, our map does not show what happens when Gabriel’s Road meets the Water of Leith, but this was long a ford, with stepping stones, across the river and is approximately where the Colonies houses of Collin’s Place are now.
Gabriel’s Road meeting the Water of Leith on “Plan of the North of the City, with the town, harbour and citadel of Leith” by Fergus & Robinson, 1759. Personal photographs of the original copy in the archives of the City of Edinburgh © SelfOld & New Edinburgh records the “beautiful and sequestered footpath bordered by hawthorn hedges, known by the name of Gabriel’s Road, is said to have been constructed for the convenience of the ancient lairds of Inverleith to enable them to attend worship in St. Giles [kirk]“. The definite meaning of the Gabriel part of the name is lost to time. It may be a reference to it being used for attending church. A theory about it relating to an infamous murder is apparently spurious and an old tavern of that name in Broughton is said to have been named for the road and not the other way around.
If you keep on looking for odd angles in the modern property and street lines you can see for yourself a few other intermediate fragments of Gabriel’s Road. For instance along East Silvermills Lane:
East Silvermills Lane, on the alignment of Gabriel’s Road.And if you follow along to the eastern end of Abercrombie Place, where there is a short block of houses on the south side of the street (the only ones along its length), you will notice that there’s a section of garden boundary wall at an odd angle… That’s right, it’s perfectly aligned on Gabriels’ Road, another instance where the portions of land on either side were in different hands when it came to planning and building.
1849 OS Town Plan showing the eastern end of Abercrombie Place and highlighting the garden boundary walls that respect the alignment of Gabriel’s Road. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandAnd back where we started off, with the boundary of Clelland’s Feu, this long and invisibly demarcated parish boundaries. St. James’ Square was a detached exclave of St. Cuthbert’s parish (the large parish that surrounded the old city of Edinburgh), where as Craig’s New Town was split between two new parishes of St. Andrew’s and St. Stephen’s.
1849 OS Town Plan showing the parish boundary of the detached portion of St. Cuthbert’s. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandAnyway, there you go. Hidden amongst the regular, monotonous Georgian grid of the New Town there are some little clues and reminders of Edinburgh in a much older time. You can read about another one at the other end of Craig’s New Town here.
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To see more of my #photography check my bio for my Instagram link and the link to my #PhotoBook.
#boosts are appreciated.
@photography #PeriodActor #Navy #CharlestownNavalYard #Boston #CountryMusic #CowboyHat #MarkChesnutt #Wethersfield #OldWethersfield #ComstockFerry #RedLionInn #Stockbridge #historic
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I've been sharing my #photography lately. These are #photos of were taken between December 2003 and August 2008 in #Connecticut and #Massachusetts.
To see more of my #photography check my bio for my Instagram link and the link to my #PhotoBook.
#boosts are appreciated.
@photography #PeriodActor #Navy #CharlestownNavalYard #Boston #CountryMusic #CowboyHat #MarkChesnutt #Wethersfield #OldWethersfield #ComstockFerry #RedLionInn #Stockbridge #historic