DOORS OPEN DAY 2026 – COMING SOON
On Saturday, 26 and Sunday, 27 September, The Cockburn Association will host the Edinburgh and East Lothian Doors Open Days weekend.
BLENHEIM PLACE
Lovely to see Robert Pattinson taking a break, this lunchtime, from filming in Glasgow.
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PEOPLE HEARING WITHOUT LISTENING
Well, that’s another small tear in the fragile fabric of civilisation, writes David Young<
108 DAYS TO GO
But at Tesco Broughton Road, it's already beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.
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NEW AFTER-SCHOOL CLUB FOR BROUGHTON
The Spurtle received a press release from Broughton St Marys Parish Church today. We reproduce it below unedited and in full. This welcome news follows the recent departure of Smart Cookies from the location (Issue 364).
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CLARA JOHNSON AND EDINBURGH'S SOCIAL EVIL
The redoubtable Victorian brothel-keeper Katherine Johnson featured in Series 6 of the BBC's A History Through Time, which looked at the story of 20–22 Calton Hill.
Johnson enjoyed considerable commercial success and notoriety in her day, working under a variety of names at various addresses.
In the North Briton (Saturday, 24 November 1866), we encounter her as Clara Johnson, working from premises on Clyde Street and involved in a dispute about money with one o
THE END OF SUMMER
Goodbye to all that.
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ISSUE 365 – OUT SOON!
As you read this, advance copies of the September Spurtle are already spreading across the barony like bakery bags (asking you to dispose of them thoughtfully) in kerbside bushes.