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Sep 5, 2023 · We’ve trawled through our picture archives to bring you 11 photos of Morningside down the years. South Morningside School. Children sit in a tiered or "galleried" classroom at South...
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Nov 17, 2021 · Today Morningside is local government ward with a population of around 33,000 people living in a mixture of villas, tenement flats and more modern housing, all centred around the main shopping street of Morningside Road. Here are 28 pictures to take you back to the Morningside of the 1950s and 1960s. Read more:
Nov 19, 2021 · Here are 28 pictures to take you back to the Morningside of the 1950s and 1960s. Read more: 17 pictures of Edinburgh's Lothian Road in the 1950s and 1960s show how much the familiar Capital...
- Some Morningside Characters
- James Ferrier and His Daughter Susan
- The Falconars of Falcon Hall
- Two Balfour Aunts
The story of the community that Morningside became over the course of the 19thcentury is rooted in its initial attractions as a peaceful, secluded and affordable alternative to the overcrowded resorts of Cramond and Portobello. In her autobiography, published posthumously in 1875, Eliza Fletcher describes how in 1799 she and her advocate husband de...
The Fletchers may have been influenced in their choice of Morningside by recently-widowed James Ferrier, WS and Principal Clerk of Session, who had spent the summer of 1798 at Canaan Cottage with his 15-year old daughter Susan Edmonstone Ferrier. The following year, James took out a lease on East Morningside House, spending up to six months of each...
Alexander Falconar had returned to Scotland from India, where he had been in the colonial service in Madras, in around 1810 with his wife Elizabeth and 12 of their 14 surviving children – three sons and nine daughters – settling in Edinburgh the following year. On 17 February 1814 he bought Morningside Lodge from Margaret Thomson Coulter; she was t...
Two doors along from Dr Chalmers, at 6 Morningside Place, lived the Balfour aunts visited by their nephew Robert Louis Stevenson in the mid-1800s. His childhood nanny, Alison Cunningham – better known as ‘Cummy’ lived her last years in Balcarres Street and is buried in Morningside Cemetery.
Morningside is a district and former village in the south of Edinburgh, Scotland. It lies alongside the main arterial Morningside Road, part of an ancient route from Edinburgh to the south west of Scotland. The original village served several farms and estates in the area.
Nov 11, 2019 · Take a look back at the history of Morningside with these 11 photos. Morningside is filled with popular landmarks. Author Liz Hanson - Edinburgh Through Time - Morningside Clock
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Morningside was a small village south of Edinburgh which consisted of a few cottages and farms. Originally part of the Burghmuir (a woodland and open ground where hunting took place) which stretched from the Pentland hills to the Meadows which was the Burgh Loch.
