our town stories {edinburgh}
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Working with dataclare.padgett@edinburgh.gov.uk Edinburgh Libraries
If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
George Macaulay Trevelyan, (source: www.quotegarden.com)
How do you like the Brigade? I asked himWell Sir, if I don’t like it, I should.
Why? I asked him. Just because we have plenty of meat, and have good friends here, and I know what it is to be without these, if anyone does
Have you had many hardships in your short life? I should think so, he replied
From ‘Edinburgh Industrial Brigade & Home for Destitute & Homeless Boys’ (recorded by a person working with the Brigade in about 1871)
Whose Town? heritage resource for schools
Whose Town? Life in a Box
Capital Collections
Our Town Stories
History: gossip well told.
Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary (source:
www.quotegarden.com)
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