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Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Princes Street

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Locator = 55.952464;-3.195549,Other = OS,Created For = Scotland

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Note about how crofters' daughters are dressed, c1893

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/35
Scope and Contents

Note about how crofters' daughters are dressed remarking that they are 'as becomingly dressed as the average young lady in Princes St[reet]' [Edinburgh].

Dates: c1893

Two stories of sparrows caught by merlins in Edinburgh, June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/115
Scope and Contents

Two stories of sparrows caught by merlins in Edinburgh which relates how one was caught in front of a cab driving along Princes Street and another at Portobello in 1887. Also notes that a white-winged sparrow had been seen in Princes Street. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887