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A HEAD OF ITS TIMES

The earliest known figurative representation of the human form depicts an exaggeratedly proportioned pregnant woman carved from mammoth tusk.…
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BODY FOUND IN WATER OF LEITH

POLICE SEEK WITNESSES Spurtle received a press release yesterday from Police Scotland. We reproduce it in full below. ---------- Officers in…
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EDWARDIAN NEWS FROM THE MEWS, 16

EDINBURGH TAILORS’ STRIKE Beyond the fact that numbers of men are leaving the town for other work, nothing fresh transpires this morning in…
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REMEMBERING THE GREAT HELMSMAN

This interesting graffiti at the Broughton Street end of Albany Street Lane makes use of a pre-existing incision in a random flagstone. At first…
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CAST-IRON BEAVERBANK HISTORY

Following our article about a (more interesting than expected) access cover on George Street, reader Sam Murray got in touch about another. This one…
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EDWARDIAN NEWS FROM THE MEWS, 15

GREENSIDE IMPROVEMENT. W. D. Macgregor writes: The lecture by Judge Brown on Tuesday night on the housing of the Edinburgh poor has drawn attention…
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PAWS FOR THOUGHT

TAKE CARE BEFORE BUYING KITTENS ONLINE OK, let’s start by stating the obvious … Awwwwwwwwwwww! Now we have your attention, we can move on. Are…
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BAD NEWS FROM BROUGHTON

Last night, the London Street Grocery closed its doors for the last time. The shop – a staple of life in the barony for the last 53 years – is now…
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BACK TO THE FUTURE FOR BETTER STREETS

Critics have raised serious doubts about suggestions for reinventing Edinburgh’s 'front-line civic stewardship' as potentially unfair,…
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ISSUE 305 — OUT TOMORROW!

As you read this, advanced copies of the April Spurtle are already dispersing across the barony like personal items storm-torn from a clothes line…
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