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NOT ANY OLD IRON

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Living in a World Heritage Site, we tend – rightly – to focus on the preservation and restoration of its finest features.

But sometimes, the weathering and distress of our environs, including its more prosaic elements, has a poignant charm all of its own.

This Corporation lamppost on Calton Road is a case in point.

NEWS FROM THE MEWS 14

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April 1863

WORKING MEN’S HOUSES AT STOCKBRIDGE.

Last night, the foundation-stone of a range of houses at Stockbridge, intended for working men, was laid by Dr Begg, in presence of a considerable number of spectators.[1]

It will be remembered that about eighteen months ago Dr Begg inaugurated, by the same ceremony, the commencement of the erection of another row of houses for a similar purpose at the west end of Water Lane,[2] leading from Canonmills to Stockbridge.