Re: Happy Beltane s.c.s.

(8(|) Doh!
On Tue, 1 May 2007 20:32:28 +0100, Bryn
<Scotland-the-Brave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

These fires broke out on the evening of Monday,
15th November 1824, on the south side of the High
Street, about half-way between the Tron Church and
St Giles' Cathedral; and before morning a range of
houses six or seven storeys high, with fifteen windows
in front, and extending back almost to the Cowgate—
as dense a mass of buildings as was perhaps in the
world—was a burnt shell.
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Cockburn would have made a great scriptwriter!

A splendid eye-witness report.

A dry old bugger but a shrewd eye.

--
Bryn

It takes years of schooling to
knock the intelligence out of a child.
.