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.