Scotsman digital archive

[Bob Jefferson]

allows you to search online from every issue of the Scotsman from 1817 to 1930. Subscriptions vary from £7:95 for a 24 hour pass to £159:95 for a year.

Yesterday I took out a 24 hour pass. There are far too many references to Portobello to tackle in such a short time frame, so I restricted myself to searches on the area where I live and Rosefield and Brighton Parks.

I found lots of interesting clippings, which will help with the local history project I work on sporadically. I reproduce below, for your amusement, one of the court reports I found from 1899:

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And here's another story from 1909:

[Maria]

The drains were obviously badly maintained even then! Brighton Place still amasses huge puddles when it rains, as all the drains are broken and can't cope with any volume of water at all.

[Sandra]

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