Dean waters sur Twitter : "Police charge building #edinburgh #police... Edinspotlight : The Balmoral Hotel through ... Edinspotlight : Live iPhone pic of the evening ... Twitter Trends in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Runnin up that hill. We hae, or at least we used tae hae, afore the smokin ban cam alang tae kill them aff, a muckle great auld pubs in Embra. Yin that some o ye may be familiar wi is the Guildford Arms, up ahint the auld Woolworth's shop on Princes Street. Aye awricht, ah ken, there's nae Woolies there noo, jist a hamburger shop, but ye ken whaur ah am, up aside the Register Hoose. It's a braw drinkin palace inside, weel worth a visit if ye've no been in, but the reason ah bring it up is the path at the side, oan the right as ye look at the photie. Ye see that wee path? It goes at an angle up the side tae the Cafe Royal, ye wi me?
Ma tale affsets way back in 1607, when yin o King Jamie Saxt's pals, Tam o the Coogate, found siller ore oan his property oot by Linlithgow. Bein as ah am the whelp o a Black Bitch (an proud o it!) The Silvermills that King James sent the ore tae are aw built ower noo, but they yaist tae staun doon near Stockbridge, jist ahint St Stephen's kirk. Sadly tho, it wisnae. Edinburgh Outdoors. Our Town Stories. Auld Reekie.