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Shopping as it should be

Edinburgh Farmers Market
Meadows International Croquet Club
Bruntsfield Short Hole Golf Club 2008
Salsa at Tollcross Dance Classes
for beginners and intermediate level
The Gallery Beadshop
City Centre Neighbourhood Partnership meeting information
La Bagatelle Restaurant is a French family run restaurant, using quality ingredients from Scotland and France
0131 229 0869
Zucca cafe and restaurant specialising in fine Italian cuisine upstairs with a fresh and stylish cafe at ground level
Cameo Cinema
38 Home Street
Edinburgh, EH3 9LZ
0131 228 2800
Faith Hairdressing
59 Home Street
Edinburgh EH3 9JP
0131 229 7041
15% Student Discount
Commercial refrigeration and air conditioning products and services for the UKs Food, Beverage and Leisure Industries

Network Cooling Ltd
Unit 59
Imex Business Centre
Dryden Road
Loanhead
Edinburgh EH20 9LZ
0131 440 9443
The Pulse - Living Life in Edinburgh Issue 2 Spring 2008
Drop by at 24 Lochrin Buildings, near The Kings Theatre, where a warm welcome awaits you
Adult Learning Project List of weekly Events
Electrical goods, batteries etc
You need it, weve got it
XL
29 Home Street
Tollcross
Edinburgh EH3 9JR
0131 228 2818
te POOKa
10 Lady Lawson Street
Edinburgh, EH3 9DS
0131 228 4567
Coco of Bruntsfield
174 Bruntsfield Place
Edinburgh EH10 4ER
0131 228 4526
Provenance Boutique Wines Newsletter
Online wine retail
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Jennifer Gilroy
31 Brougham Street
Edinburgh
EH3 9JT
0131 228 5055
Supernatural History Tours
The Real Mary Kings Close

Today in History

1805: Sir Alexander Burnes, Scottish explorer and public official, was born. A noted explorer of Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and southern Russia, he was author of 'Map of Central Asia' and 'Travels into Bokhara.'

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Derivation of Local Street Names


Tarvit Street
Named after the Fife residence (Tarvit House in Cupar) of James Home Rigg, on whose lands the street was built (see Home Street).

Thornybauk
Thornybauk (or Thornybank) means a row of thornbushes, which originally ran from Tollcross to Morrison Street by way of Thornybauk and Semple Street, marking the western border of the lands of Tollcross and the eastern border of Dalry and Wright's Houses. It is likely that it originally formed a continuous line with thorn trees at Drumdryan.

Tobago Street
The houses on this street have now been demolished. Now adjacent to Dewar Place, by the SSEB building, but was originally the name applied to a section of Morrison Street to the east of its present position. Named after Nathaniel Donaldson who lived in Tobago in the West Indies and who sold nearby land to William Morrison (see Morrison Street). Nearby there was Jamaica Street.

Tollcross
The pillar clock at Tollcross was gifted to the City of Edinburgh, by Provost Sir James Steel and Treasurer Cranston in 1901 and was one of four similar clocks in the City made by the Edinburgh Clockmakers, James Ritchie & Son. Originally a pendulum clock, in 1926 it became spring driven and was wound once a week by the makers. In 1969 it was converted to electric mechanism. When, in 1974, the crossroads area was being improved to accommodate the widening of Earl Grey Street, the clock was removed and later, after much public pressure, replaced close to its original position. Manufactured by Walter Macfarlane & Co at Saracen Foundry Glasgow. (C Listed)

Tollcross, West
Built at the turn of the 20th century and named after the previous street of that name, now part of Home Street.

Torphichen Street, Place
The origin of the name is not clear. Torphichen Street was first called St Cuthbert's Street and was planned to be continued through to Lothian Road. By 1848 these plans were overtaken with the coming of the railway. Torphichen Place was first called Thomas Street, Possibly after Thomas Morrison, who owned the land in the 1820s.


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