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Craigwell Cottage

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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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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Preparing to market Craigwell Cottage

23 February 2007

On the evening our conditional offer was accepted we started to draft up a website which we will use to market the property. Is it sufficient to use www.2edinburgh.com for this purpose? I’ve set up a subdomain www.craigwell.2edinburgh.com for the purpose – is this attractive enough? We also need to think about our strategy for [...]

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Making an offer for an exciting new holiday rental property

23 February 2007

We went to view a property at 16 Nether Craigwell, Edinburgh in mid January 2007. It was on the market at an “offers over” price, but quickly went to a “fixed price” as the owners neared the date when they had to move out. We felt we knew how much we wanted to pay, but [...]

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