#FingerpostFriday: Here's our historic signpost at the summit of the Cauldstane Slap in the Pentland Hills Regional Park, looking sharp with its brand-new interpretation sign (thanks to Scottish Mountaineering Trust). [1/2]
🔧📷 John Surtees
🔧📷 John Surtees
May 15, 2026 at 8:26 AM
#FingerpostFriday: Here's our historic signpost at the summit of the Cauldstane Slap in the Pentland Hills Regional Park, looking sharp with its brand-new interpretation sign (thanks to Scottish Mountaineering Trust). [1/2]
🔧📷 John Surtees
🔧📷 John Surtees
For #FingerpostFriday here's one of ScotWays' very first signs dating from 1885. This one now stands on the summit of the Cauldstane Slap in the #PentlandHills, part of the Cross Borders Drove Road and #ScottishHillTracks route 51. 1/2
📷 © Eleanor Birch
📷 © Eleanor Birch
January 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
For #FingerpostFriday here's one of ScotWays' very first signs dating from 1885. This one now stands on the summit of the Cauldstane Slap in the #PentlandHills, part of the Cross Borders Drove Road and #ScottishHillTracks route 51. 1/2
📷 © Eleanor Birch
📷 © Eleanor Birch
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On 23 August 1918 Caledonian Railway porter McCormack was knocked down by an express train at Midcalder station.
As she was a member of its Midcalder branch, the NUR (now @rmtunion.bsky.social) represented her & her dependents' interests at the inquest into her death.
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As she was a member of its Midcalder branch, the NUR (now @rmtunion.bsky.social) represented her & her dependents' interests at the inquest into her death.
#StAndrewsDay
November 30, 2024 at 11:24 AM
On 23 August 1918 Caledonian Railway porter McCormack was knocked down by an express train at Midcalder station.
As she was a member of its Midcalder branch, the NUR (now @rmtunion.bsky.social) represented her & her dependents' interests at the inquest into her death.
#StAndrewsDay
As she was a member of its Midcalder branch, the NUR (now @rmtunion.bsky.social) represented her & her dependents' interests at the inquest into her death.
#StAndrewsDay
#Edinburgh in 2040: have your say
-> consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/place/
🙋 Drop-in Mon 3 Nov 1430-1930 (attached)
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-> consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/place/
🙋 Drop-in Mon 3 Nov 1430-1930 (attached)
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@edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @edcriticalmass.bsky.social @infrasisters.bsky.social @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk @chasbooth.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social
![Do we want this??
[picture of Lothian bus stuck between parked cars in Balerno]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ood4k4wojq5jku2zl3myqco/bafkreibumc2dvbb2h2wtxyv2p6xxomp247wjab4viornixca7ia2knuamu)
![Here's a decision coming up soon... the Future of Princes Street
[drawing of Richard Murphy architect proposals, single lanes for tram/bus, segregated bike lanes, wider footways]
http://www.spokes.org.uk/2025/07/princes-street-future/
Princes Street: think again, Edinburgh!
Princes Street, Scotland’s internationally renowned premier street, is unique, but has suffered in recent years. The opportunity to transform it, now under Council consideration, must not be squandered.
New drawings by Richard Murphy architects suggest an imaginative way forward, catering for tram, bus, cycling and large numbers of pedestrians, whilst reducing vehicle dominance. This is the type of approach that the Council should be developing, rather than its current proposals – which its own report admits could be ‘more aspirational’ !
Richard Murphy architects drawing – click here for larger scale and key, and here for the wider area (then zoom in for more detail)
Council proposals ‘non-aspirational’
Earlier this year the Council consulted on a draft strategy for the future of Princes Street and the Waverley Valley. The Princes Street proposals were described as lacking ambition and imagination by the New Town and West End community councils. Nor did they go anywhere near the recommendations of the Council’s commissioned report by internationally-renowned urban designer Jan Gehl, way back in 2010, who identified “cycle and pedestrian priority” and reduced vehicle presence as “essential” for Princes Street to achieve its “huge potential.”
Indeed, the Council’s own consultation strategy (on page 15) admits that it could be more aspirational! Many others, Spokes included, have said that not only could it be more aspirational, but it should be!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ood4k4wojq5jku2zl3myqco/bafkreihhhebpy3o4s2igxbiiwi7ohh2zurtljbhyqcraxpmmsvcfclfeda)
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#Edinburgh in 2040: have your say
-> consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/place/
🙋 Drop-in Mon 3 Nov 1430-1930 (attached)
#CityPlan2040
@edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @edcriticalmass.bsky.social @infrasisters.bsky.social @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk @chasbooth.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social
-> consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/place/
🙋 Drop-in Mon 3 Nov 1430-1930 (attached)
#CityPlan2040
@edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @edcriticalmass.bsky.social @infrasisters.bsky.social @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk @chasbooth.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social
I've two notable leap day entries in my records:
1632: Aberdeen burgh council restored to Thomas Cowye, kirk sacristar, from the reader the considerable disciplinary fines & kirk service fees.
1644: Midcalder KS reported that it had collected from parishioners £47 for Irish refugees in Scotland.
1632: Aberdeen burgh council restored to Thomas Cowye, kirk sacristar, from the reader the considerable disciplinary fines & kirk service fees.
1644: Midcalder KS reported that it had collected from parishioners £47 for Irish refugees in Scotland.
February 29, 2024 at 10:20 PM
I've two notable leap day entries in my records:
1632: Aberdeen burgh council restored to Thomas Cowye, kirk sacristar, from the reader the considerable disciplinary fines & kirk service fees.
1644: Midcalder KS reported that it had collected from parishioners £47 for Irish refugees in Scotland.
1632: Aberdeen burgh council restored to Thomas Cowye, kirk sacristar, from the reader the considerable disciplinary fines & kirk service fees.
1644: Midcalder KS reported that it had collected from parishioners £47 for Irish refugees in Scotland.
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