HISTORICAL INTEREST

HISTORY OF THE ROYAL MILE

Edinburgh Castle

Scottish Kings & Queens

Princess Street Gardens

The Nor' Loch

The Ragged School

The Weigh House

Camera Obscura

Gladstone's Land

The Luckenbooths

The Wellheads

The Great Fire of 1824

Old Town Modernisation

and the New Town

Heave Awa Hoose

St. Giles Cathedral

Heart of Midlothian

The Mercat Cross

Marlin's Wynd

The Netherbow Port

Bibleland

Holyrood Abbey

Holyrood Palace

Greyfriar's Kirk

THE ROYAL MILE by james Grant

•  CASTLE HILL

• THE LAWNMARKET

• THE HIGH STREET

• THE CANONGATE

• HOLYROOD

THE DARK SIDE

Old Tolbooth Prison

Mary King's Close

Queensberry House

The Plague

Crime & Punishment

Burke & Hare

Little Coffins found on Arthur's Seat

MUSEUMS

The Writer's Museum

The Police Museum

John Knox House

The Museum of Childhood

Huntly House Museum

Museum of Edinburgh

The People's Story

Our Dynamic Earth

OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
OF THE ROYAL MILE

OLD MAPS
OF THE ROYAL MILE

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for a guide to significant events in
Scottish History

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