History / Local business

We're delighted to see the premises at 43 Leith Street back in active use. We covered their lease by Edinburgh Council to The Mother Black Cat Ltd back in June (Issue 340)

Bitter-sweet farewell

S1 Developments Ltd wants to change the use of the hotel at 14–15 Claremont Crescent and reconfigure it as seven 2-bdrm flats with two separate 3-bdrm mews dwellings and limited on-site parking for cars and bikes behind (23//070507/LBC and 23/07058/FUL).

This work by Archibald Williams (1871–1934), currently displayed in the window of bookbinders and sellers The Gently Mad on Inverleith Row, optimistically anticipates numerous life-improving innovations from the distant perspective of 1902.

They include: