Monthly archives: August 2020

Greyfriars Kirk opens to visitors at 11.30 on Monday 17th August. We’d be glad to see you if you decide to come in and take a look around the historic building. The illustration by Phillimore shows Old Greyfriars. Bobby is buried in front of the gable end of the church.

The artist also specialised in depicting views of Edinburgh. The postcard is one of the many featured in Jan Bondeson’s ‘Phillimore’s Edinburgh’.

The eighteen-pounder standing on the Half Moon Battery pointed east. It was said that the station master at North Berwick set his clock when he heard the signal. Jan Bondeson’s ‘East Lothian’ is now available in the bookshops. The book contains the work of R.P. Phillimore the postcard artist who lived in the town.

The illustration shows the main street in Newhaven.

Edinburgh Castle has now re-opened to visitors. The One o’ Clock Gun exhibition which was set up by the One o’ Clock Gun Association in collaboration with Historic Scotland stands on the Mills Mount Battery.

King James IV set up a shipbuilding yard at Newhaven in 1506. The shipyard contained a chapel for the shipwrights. The ruins can been seen standing between the two cottages.

Newhaven was the main fishing village on the south bank of the Firth of Forth not far from Granton and Leith.