| Description Of Item | These are arranged into envelopes similar in format to those for the Indian cuttings at TAH/4/16. They have the following labels: the future; Scottish National Gallery; British Commonwealth (former Empire) Games; school games; games and pastimes; pioneer women gardeners; private city gardens; gas - Granton gasworks, last of manufactured gas, Scottish Gas Board's demise, gas works at Biggar; fathers of geniuses; Lloyd George; George Street; Gilmerton; Gorgie; Goldenacre and Wardie; Grassmarket; Edinburgh Festival Guides Association; Incorporation of Guildry; Wester Hailes; hairdressers; Assembly Hall as conference centre; Usher Hall; Edmund Hillary Everest and the sherpas; giant hogweed; hotels; some Edinburgh hotels; Hermitage House; Morton House; Huguenots on Scotland; Victoria Hostel for Women, Merchant Street; Holyrood Amenity Trust; holidays, travel; some hills of Edinburgh; and Hillend ski run; Persia (Iran) celebrations 1971; a Princes Street investiture; the curse of Kennedy; Evel Knieval and other stuntmen; Harry Lauder's house; the Water of Leith a poem; public library (Carnegie); National Library of Scotland; toy library; libraries; Lord Lieutenant; Linburn; Linlithgow; lochs of Edinburgh; London Bridge a US gimmick; McGonagall the poet; Dame Flora Macleod; Elgin marbles; Edinburgh's first open air market, indoor market, Ingliston market and markets and market days in former times; marriage - trial; relics of Mary Queen of Scots; mausoleums and monuments in cemeteries; Meadows exhibition; Town Council medal to rescuer; Angolan mercenaries; Bannister's 4 minute mile; millionaires - Greek and others; monks of Mount Athos; Dr Barbara Moore; Morningside; The Mound electric blanket; the Munros; the Gary Gilomour saga, USA; National Trust Charlotte Square; Bagpipe Museum; proposals for National Folk Museum in Edinburgh; Mining Museum; Wax Museum in Edinburgh; Wool Museum Walkerburn; museums miscellaneous; names their meaning etc; on pronunciation of names; Ben Nevis; on early newspaper and oldest surviving Scottish newspaper; Edinburgh New Town; Panama Canal; and newspapers and editors. Also includes binder of cuttings on Edinburgh cemeteries with a report by the Sanitary Department, 1900 and numerous unsorted cuttings. |