As you read this, advance copies of the February Spurtle have already begun snowdropping across the barony.

Hotels, Hydropathics, &c.

Continental hotel and restaurant,

Meuse Lane (on St David Street.)

Luncheons, Dinners, and Suppers at Popular Prices.

Good-Sized Rooms for Meetings for Business Men.

Hotel Tariff Moderate.

G. RIETZ, Proprietor and Manager.[1]

1902

WANTED, girl to wash bottles, and also one to label.—James Robertson & Co., York Lane.[1]

Edinburgh Evening News, 4 January 1902

[1] The company was a manufacturer of aerated water. It did not normally label girls.

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Another of Warriston Cemetery’s gentle giants has fallen.

The latest example, when seen from Warriston Road, appears to have been rooted in the bank by the Water of Leith.

Closer inspection, though, shows that it’s the one next to the informal entry into the cemetery from the cyclepath at Warriston Junction.

Some 30 local residents are circulating objections to planning proposals for two properties at 108/14 and 116 Dundas Street (20/05645/FUL; 20/05646/CON).

FIRE IN AN EDINBURGH WORKSHOP.

A fire broke out in a joiner’s workshop situated in Swinton Row, Broughton Street, Edinburgh, yesterday afternoon.[1]

The workshop, which occupies a two-storeyed brick building, is in close proximity to Messrs Moir & Co.’s large funeral undertaking establishment, where, in the stables and yard, there were a large number of horses, hearses, cabs, and other vehicles.

A day of greys.

The photograph shown here of a ‘winter angel’, posted on Twitter at the weekend, prompted some interest among readers.

LEITH POLICE COURT.

(BAILIE M’KELVIE ON THE BENCH.)

THURSDAY

Robert Mearns, labourer, Greenside Row, Edinburgh, was not working about the beginning of the present month, but he devised other and easier means to become the proud possessor of two quart bottles of whisky.

Planning permission is sought to convert two Category A-listed properties on London Street into short-term holiday-let accommodation.