From the monthly archives:

October 2007

November weekends in Edinburgh

17 October 2007

Craigwell Cottage is a wonderful self-catering cottage right in the heart of Edinburgh’s historic city centre. We’re available for short-breaks or weekly lets in November, and we’re currently running a special offer for the month. Visit our website: www.2edinburgh.co.uk for full details. Look forward to welcoming you to Edinburgh! Susan McNaughton

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Events of 1822

12 October 2007

As the Craigwell Brewery was being built, the foundation stones for the National Monument were being laid. – More on this. Source: Old and New Edinburgh: http://www.oldandnewedinburgh.co.uk – chapter on the Calton Hill.

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Researching Calton Road

12 October 2007

Interesting Website ‘Old and New Edinburgh‘ with many sketches of Old Edinburgh – worth a further look when I get the time – link saved to ‘Calton Road’ Search

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Beers Brewed at Craigwell Brewery

12 October 2007

Got an e-mail this morning from Iain Russell the Scottish Brewing Archivist at Glasgow University. He’s going to look out some information about Craigwell Brewery, but he says: We have some black and white photos of the brewery in the archive, and a short (1 and a wee bit pages!) history of the firm post [...]

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More Historic Maps re history of Nether Craigwell

11 October 2007

I’ve found a link to a photograph of a representation of Edinburgh in 1460, in which you can clearly see the river running through the Waverley Valley – which later becomes Calton Road. The link to Edinburgh Photography website is: http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_MAP/1_map_edinburgh_1460.htm#map

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History of Craigwell Brewery – Gordon & Blair/ John Blair

11 October 2007

Doing a search on the internet of  ’Craigwell Brewery’ turns up an article in the Scottish Brewing archive, which can be accessed here: http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/sba/sbacolls/gb.html John Blair is quoted as the builder of the Craigwell Brewery in 1822, and this article on Scottish Brewing history mentions his associations with Holyrood (http://www.scottishpubs.co.uk/scotbeers/monk.htm)

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Old Brewery Garden, Nether Craigwell, Calton Road, Edinburgh EH8 8DR

11 October 2007

Dave Fiddimore, who has lived at Nether Craigwell since the conversion to residential properties in 1987, was on duty on the weekend of 5 May 2007 at the entrance to the Garden of Nether Craigwell which was open to the public at the ‘Open Gardens Day’ – Organised by the Cockburn Association in partnership with [...]

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Searching Edinburgh Maps for Craigwell Brewery History

11 October 2007

10 October 2007 – visited the Edinburgh Room at Edinburgh’s Central Library on George IV Bridge. Found a great collection of old maps of Edinburgh there, and searched through them for evidence of buildings on the site where Nether Craigwell now stands – EH8 8DR. Notes made when consulting “An Atlas of Old Edinburgh” in [...]

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Craigwell Brewery – 1987 Conversion to Dwelling Houses

10 October 2007

In 1987 the old derelict warehousing/storage facilities which had formerly been Craigwell Brewery were converted to form 22 dwelling houses – a mixture of town houses, apartments and one semi-detached cottage (No. 16). When researching this aspect of the history of Nether Craigwell and Craigwell Brewery, we found some photographs which had been taken by [...]

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Researching history of Craigwell Cottage

10 October 2007

Craigwell Cottage at 16 Nether Craigwell, Edinburgh is one of 22 dwellinghouses which were formed when old industrial buildings were converted to housing in 1987. On 26 April 2007 Sandcastle Holidays (Scotland) Ltd purchased the cottage at 16 Nether Craigwell with the intention of using it for holiday letting. Susan McNaughton of Sandcastle Holidays had [...]

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