Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 04/05/202610 Picardy Place—built as a townhouse in the early 1800s, part of a terrace that replaced a village of French weavers who had been invited to Edinburgh in the previous century in the hope that the district would become a centre of the linen industry. (It appears it did not.) 1316
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 17/02/202621 East Crosscauseway, built around 1778 on what is now a side street but was then the only paved road in the south of Edinburgh, which linked the city’s two main roads south. (The name comes an unfortunate anglicisation of the Scots word "causey", meaning "paved".) Former residents include: 49628
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 13/10/202518 Rankeillor Street, Edinburgh—built around 1820. Eight flats in the stair, over two ground-floor flats. Notable former residents include: 25818
Reposted by Diarmid MoggAndy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 17/08/2025Every so often houses come up in the Edinburgh property listings for a charming-sounding place called "Mount Alvernia". This development was once a monastery, but it had no monks; it was home to nuns. Twice the Catholic Church tried to displace these Sisters by legal means and twice it failed 🧵▶️ 49420
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 01/08/2025I saw this today—a great bit of theatre. Stories of Edinburgh lives, performed by a great actor. On until the 23rd. If you like my tenement stories, you’ll love this. Recommended! 071
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 15/07/202530 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh—a corner tenement over one ground-floor shop, built in 1896, with four floors of “superior houses of 3 and 4 apartments”. 24916
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 17/04/202513 Blackfriars St, Edinburgh—currently eight flats (after modernisation); probably more in the 1870s, when it was built as working-class housing to replace the "rotten, ruinous old buildings" and the "congeries of dark and wretched lanes" of the area. Former residents include: 45123
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Today’s winds in Edinburgh are bad, but they’re not as strong as the 90mph winds that hit the city in January 1868. In the midst of awful stories of fatalities and wrecked buildings, The Scotsman printed this report of the travails of a distinguished lawyer on his journey home: 44015
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 21/01/202535 Watson Crescent, Edinburgh—16 flats in a tenement built along the Union Canal in 1898 for workers in the nearby foundries, breweries and rubber factories. Former residents include: 23915
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 10/12/202427 East Preston Street, Edinburgh. An early 1880s tenement, eight flats in the stair, over two main-door flats. Former residents include: 76218
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 14/11/202331 Windsor Street/36 Montgomery Street—a corner tenement built around 1825 to a design by William Henry Playfair. The eight flats in the stair sit above two main-door flats and two basement flats—one of each on Montgomery Street and Windsor Street. Former residents include: 182
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 06/11/20237 Cargil Terrace—built in 1901 on a quiet side street in the north of Edinburgh that is named after some bygone landowner who left no other trace in the historical record. Six flats in the stair, over two ground-floor flats. Former residents include: 130
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 11/10/2023248 Leith Walk—three storeys of flats over three shops. Built in 1902 as an investment by the owners of the nearby Victoria India Rubber Works. Former residents include: 220
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social · 26/09/202328 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, built in 1859 at the same time as its neighbour, the Martyr’s Reformed Presbyterian church (now the Frankenstein pub), probably as a source of feuing income for the church’s maintenance. Former residents include: 130