CALTON HILL
Brutalist blushing.
No. 15 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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Memories of a community cinema
Dear Spurtle,
When I was about 10 years old, I used to travel from Pilton up to the Ritz Cinema on a Saturday morning to sing the song of the ABC minors along with an audience of other kids.
I think there were various things on offer, but I only had enough for a bus fare either way and entry money. I think they occasionally showed a serial, but somebody else would need to confirm that.
Everybody seemed to enjoy the singing, and you felt part of a community and more so as the Second World War had just finished.
Bob Sinclair
Australia
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EDITOR:–The Ritz Cinema on Rodney Street, which opened in 1929, was the first movie theatre in Edinburgh designed to show ‘talkies’. It survived until 1981. Lee Dalgetty’s interesting synthesis about the ‘courting picture house’ appears on @edinburghlive here and includes archive film footage of the structure being built.
Do any other readers have memories of this Broughton institution’s life and times? If so, please contact us at: spurtle@hotmail.co.uk
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GREAT BIG GREEN DAY
Friends of Hopetoun Crescent Garden will host a Community Day on Sunday 18 June (11am–1pm) as part of the Great Big Green Week.
Activities include:
BROUGHTON TO NEWHAVEN TRAMS
START TOMORROW
Journalists and elected representatives travelled from Broughton to Newhaven this afternoon in advance of the first paying customers using the extension from midday tomorrow.
POLICE LAUNCH MURDER INQUIRY AFTER FRIDAY'S DISTURBANCE ON LEITH STREET
Police Scotland issued the following press release this evening. We reproduce it unedited and in full.
A murder inquiry has been launched following the death of a 30-year-old man in Edinburgh.
Around 7.45pm on Friday, 2 June, 2023, officers were called to a report of a disturbance on Leith Street near to the junction with Greenside Row.
Peter Mullen, 30, of Edinburgh, suffered serious injuries and was taken by ambulance to Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, where he died a short time later.
SUMMER PLACE
'We'll pay for it!' No. 14 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
Visit: https://scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/scotland-1/
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INAUGURAL NEW TOWN ART MONTH LAUNCHES NEXT WEEK
The inaugural New Town Art Month will run from 7 to 24 June in 11 venues across Edinburgh’s ‘incredible art quarter’.
The map below shows you who and where they are.
Launched and led by Chloé Nelkin Consulting, NTAM promises paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, ceramics and bronze editions highlighting the work of international and home-grown Scottish artists alongside prodigious emerging talent.
FOX NEWS
Thoughtful new kid on the block filmed in Spurtleshire back-green by Tim Smith.
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OPEN GARDENS THIS JUNE
If you’re looking for an inspiring afternoon out in Edinburgh on 25 June, why not join the hosts of the open gardens of Stockbridge (and surrounds) and have a bogle at their plots full of plants?
Under the Scotland’s Gardens Scheme umbrella, from 12 noon until 4.30 pm, a trail of eight private city gardens will tempt visitors to explore the New Town, Stockbridge and Canonmills area, where the owners will be on hand to answer questions and receive compliments!