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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Knitted pigeons in the restored doocot at Newhailes - including (speckled?) Jim.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Just published in the Georgian Group Journal (2026) - Mylne's Land - Scotland's first modern tenement ? The story of a stone tenement in Leith designed by Robert Mylne (1633-1710), Master Mason to the Crown of Scotland, in 1678. It survived until 1955.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Yeah - just google ‘English medieval castle’ for an image - what could possibly go wrong?

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

From The Planner magazine. Hawick in Killin, Dublin in Limerick, (London)Derry in Louge Neagh and Barry in Builith Wells !!

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

The sadly redundant St Helen's at Kilnsea, East Yorkshire, designed by the renowned Victorian architect William Burges in 1864.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The Arms of King Charles III (no not that one) in the Palazzo di San Clemente in Florence. Charles Edward Stuart bought the palace in 1777 living there until 1785. The Latin motto states 'Charles III, born 1720, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, 1766.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Just published in the Transactions of the LCAS -a study on the pastoral staff of Bishop Thomas Deacon. A rare nonjuring artefact it passed to four subsequent Bishops before use as a Templar Masonic Staff and museum exhibit. Surviving both auctions and thefts it is now held at @lampallib.bsky.social

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Sir John Hynde Cotton (1686-1752) - Tory politician and Jacobite sympathiser. When told that drinking less wine would be better for his gout-affected leg, he replied 'if it would not bear his usual allowance of six bottles it was no leg to him'.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Fire on Arthur’s Seat - still spreading

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

A bit of Durham concrete for you.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This was underneath it until 1970 !

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Couple of lovely Edinburgh watercolours by Louise Rayner (1832-1924) in forthcoming Lyon & Turnbull sale.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

A rare Georgian survival on Causewayside (33-41 Ratcliffe Terrace) proposed for severe haircut in recent plans for the site. Also includes wider proposals to demolish the former Causewayside Lads Club (1906) by VJ de Spiganovicz - at Nos. 27-31 RT. More on Edin Planning portal - Ref; 25/02258/FUL.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Brick Bishop. Stockton on Tees.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The sadly derelict Trotter of Mortonhall burial ground, Edinburgh.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Had forgotten how hard this was.....

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Just saw this in local charity shop. Anyone know the current whereabouts of His Majesty AKA Michel Lafosse ?

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

1832 Edinburgh tenement - graffiti and graffiti 'removal'

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

71 Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh. An 1830 villa owned by University of Edinburgh. In 2022 and today....

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

What happened to Edinburgh’s old Parliament Hall ? Find out how much survives - and where the decorative stonework went. In the most recent Book of the Old Edinburgh club.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Latest Book of Old Edinburgh Club just out. Great set of articles.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Think this is the only survivor from that photo...

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

St Marks, Warriston Rd, Edin (1936) Inter-war council housing by EJ MacRae and his team. A good infill scheme - with kinked crescent overlooking a pocket park and more surviving sash windows than you usually find #sashwindowsmatter

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Strava rocking the route descriptions.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Ludworth Tower, Co Durham - from a recent cycle trip. An early C15th tower hanging on - just west of the pit village of Ludworth.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Fire in the disco, fire in the ….

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Gnomes are so passé (Edinburgh)

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Three merged Newington (Edin.) churches and their history...

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Painted OSB board. Very Regal.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I hope Labour's new plans for housebuilding will enthusiastically support and assist the upgrading and conversion of existing buildings - rather than just developers' newbuild ?

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Sadly not - I presume he was Morningside based - the workshop was based in Canaan Lane - opposite the Canny Mans... And here is the man himself...

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

A fabulous poem from the late C19th by 'Traquair' about my gt gt grandfather George Clark - a building contractor and carpenter in Morningside, Edinburgh. #morningside

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A sad but predictable decision for M&S. On the left is a map of Westminster's Conservation Areas centred on Oxford St. Blue are CAs -White are gaps. The grade II* listed Selfridges (R) next door to M&S was in the CA - but M&S (L) is in one of the gaps. Moral-keep your CA boundaries up to date.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Saughton Park Bridge (1907). Designed by Robert Morham, Edinburgh’s city architect, for the Scottish National Exhibition. The earliest surviving reinforced concrete bridge in Scotland - (and still unlisted !!).

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Best Edinburgh Fringe show ever ?

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

However, its ruins remained until as late as 1871, surviving the initial laying out of St Catherine's Place in the late 1850s. The site was undeveloped for some years until the semi-detached villa was built in c1874. Stones from the building form a rockery at No.16.

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Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Why Sciennes? The area was named after a Dominican Convent dedicated to St Catherine of Siena. Founded c1518 by the widows of those who died at Flodden, including Lord Seton’s widow. Damaged at the Reformation, and later used as a plague hospital much was taken down in 1760.

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