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The more obscure, unusual, overlooked, and irreverent bits of Edinburgh and Leith local history
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The Gaff: the thread about Craigmillar’s picture houses
https://threadinburgh.scot/2026/08/28/the-gaff-the-thread-about-craigmillars-picture-houses/
Published: August 28, 2026 05:45
The story of interwar cinemas in Edinburgh is usually one of three acts: a brief heyday, a long decline as a bingo hall and then demolition. There's often a fire in there too for luck. Today's subjects - Craigmillar's Rio and County - are no exception.
When Yehudi Menuhin came to Pilton: the thread about The Embassy cinema
Published: August 21, 2026 05:40
The Embassy is a largely forgotten suburban cinema that once served north Edinburgh. Its life was short and rather unremarkable, apart from that one time when the world's greatest violinist put on a cheap concert for the locals
Darts and Television. The thread about Borlands of Croall Place
Published: August 13, 2026 05:15
The closure and sale of Borlands of Croall Place marks the end of a 100 year chapter, but there's much more to that story than just the sign above the door for Darts and Television.
Up in Smoke: the thread about Princes Street’s fiery history
https://threadinburgh.scot/2026/07/23/up-in-smoke-the-thread-about-princes-streets-fiery-history/
Published: July 23, 2026 06:21
Two weeks ago a devastating fire gutted part of the former Debenhams department store. This thread looks at the history of those premises and also of other conflagrations that have broken out on Princes Street over the years.
The Sally Army, the “Scabby Lala” and X-Rated in the City: the thread about the La Scala Electric Theatre
Published: July 6, 2026 05:30
The La Scala and the Classic were different guises of the same cinema. A remarkable survivor, a recent planning application for this long-vacant building provides an excuse to reflect on its surprisingly long, interesting history: at times pioneering, at…
“The Station Nobody Wanted”: the thread about Leith Central
https://threadinburgh.scot/2026/07/03/the-station-nobody-wanted-the-thread-about-leith-central/
Published: July 3, 2026 04:55
On this day, 123 years ago at 5:55AM, a little steam train puffed out of Leith Central Station. It was an unremarkable opening for a station about which everything was remarkable: its size, its cost, its short operational life, and the fact it was built by…
Chop Suey on Chambers Street: the thread about Edinburgh’s first Chinese restaurant 中式餐廳
Published: June 26, 2026 05:15
Edinburgh is spoiled for restaurants serving global cuisine. Go back 100 years however and your options were far more limited and localised. That all changed with the arrival of the "Chinese Restaurant" in 1930. It is long gone and accounts of it are…
WHAT GOES AAAAAA…AAAAAARGH SPLASH? The thread about the Commonwealth Pool’s troublesome flumes
Published: June 17, 2026 05:15
River Rapids. Vortex. Twister. Stingray. If you know, you know. And if you don't, you weren't fortunate enough to be growing up in Edinburgh in the late 1980s through to the year 2000. I am referring of course to the legendary flumes of the city's Royal…
Rails to Trails: the thread about how North Edinburgh got its cycle paths
Published: June 1, 2026 05:30
On this day, 40 years ago, a councillor cut the ceremonial ribbon and opened a section of cycle path in north Edinburgh. This was a rather special bit of cycle path however as it hadn't been built by the council. It was built by direct citizen action: over…
Problèmes à Gogo: the thread about the Bonnington Bridge Bar
Published: May 25, 2026 05:30
If you're at all familiar with the district of Bonnington then you may well know a burnt-out ruin on Newhaven Road. It's been this way long enough that you might not remember it being anything else. It certainly poses many questions. For a start; what was…