3 more things you might miss in Edinburgh
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- In this weeks Edinburgh Vlog we look at 3 more little things you might miss whilst exploring Scotlands capital city. Just to give you a few more Edinburgh history stories. We explore the centre of Edinburgh, the towers to stop grave robbers and the grave of John Knox..... in a car park.
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I love these videos. So much cool information. My trip to Edinburgh is now only 9 days away.. Can't wait.
I love little nuggets like this. I see a book in the future.
The Broonfords lost little nuggets found in Edinburgh.
No one wants to read a book i write. My handwriting is awful.
@@ClanBroonford hahaha
Well I never! The centre of Edinburgh. I shall be saying hello to the bollard next trip. 😊
Always enjoyable, Tony and thanks for taking time to show us around again. I love the wee stories.
I thought for a moment you were going to into the Archivist's Gardens behind Register House. Well worth a peep.
I'd love to get into the old cells on the Mile where the ex police museum was. It was a working station but full of interest. I wish it would open up again, but police cuts? There was a friendly & knowledgeable desk sergeant l called Eddie McMillan who was a fund of stories when I was researching Jessie King, the baby farmer. (Look her up. Horrible, but a fascinating story from Stockbridge.)
Some interesting characters lived in Stockbridge. Madame Doubtfire, Dora Noyce (🤭) to name but a couple.... .and my Granny, too!
Look forward to next time - 💯% always!
From now on this bollard will be another # on Instagram, folks will flock around it and all the people who has no clue and / or don't know this excellent channel will stop and stare 😁
@@sandybutton243 it'll become a trend. The #BroonfordBollard ....😆
That sounds painful. lol
This is the quirky quality informative content which made me subscribe. St. Giles’ bells are beautiful, what a lovely sound. I absolutely love that spot behind St. Cuthbert’s, from Princes Street down the steps to the graveyard. Lovely view of that gorgeous castle and a beautiful lamppost. I save every photo I find if it. I cannot wait to go back.
I'm totally geeking out here. I love this sort of video. Sometimes it's the littlest thing. Now, I know you're not a historian, however, information like this can easily get forgotten. I'm glad these tidbits are in your videos. Thanks.
The building opposite is not the City Archives which is in the City Chambers. It is General Register House which holds national records. Records of births, marriages and deaths are kept in New Register House which stands on the west side of General Register House, up the little street at the side of the Apple Store.
I walked by that pole several times on my way from my hotel...I had no idea. Great video!
I’m so glad I found your Channel ,I love Edinburgh and visit my family as many times as I can.Edinburgh is where my heart is even though I was born in England . I wanted to visit 2 weeks ago however broke my elbow so sadly had to postpone my visit until it gets better however I have been binge watching your videos ( much better than daytime tv ) as I find them extremely entertaining and informative .Im going to the whisky experience to try the whisky your friend recommended 👍🏼.
I love information like this. The small details about Edinburgh that most people would miss. Interesting how they paved over an old graveyard. We would not have known that while we are visiting. Thank You for sharing.
Thanks so much for all of your videos about Edinburgh! They are all so helpful and I love how detailed you are about the history of Edinburgh. Myself, my husband and my adult daughter will be there in less than two weeks. You have been so helpful to us in advance, so thank you! I love the closes series and how you point out such intriguing landmarks. Thanks for all you do, and who knows? We may run into you filming while we are there.
Thank you so much, hope you al have a brilliant time.
What a fascinating, thoroughly interesting video! I love learning little “hidden history” facts like this, and I now have three more places to check out when I come back to Edinburgh! Thank you, Tony!
Excellent, yet again!
Tony, we just got home from our trip to Edinburgh. We all had an amazing time there, and your videos were incredibly helpful. Thank you from the 12 of us!
Wow 12 of you, thats quite the trip. Hope you all had fun.
Oh my goodness. We were leaning on the "center of Edinburgh" post, waiting for our tour to begin. I did wonder why it was different then the others and has a ring on the top of it. I knew about John Knox's marker being in the car park and you had already talked about the graveyard towers - in the video about Dean's village I think. Great job. I tell anyone who even thinks about going to Scotland to check out your videos. Another great job!
Me too. I recognized the place immediately, from when I was waiting for a tour to start last August. Never knew the significance.
I love these videos! So much cool information! Thank you, Tony!
There is a statue of Abraham Lincoln in the cemetery on Calton Hill to Scots who fought in the American civil war.I’m really loving the videos.I didn’t know about the post outside the old post office.Very interesting.
Already done that. Here it is. ua-cam.com/video/8ulWGTuRiVU/v-deo.html
I love all the details in your videos. I've always loved going to old graveyards. I'm a real history geek. Thanks for the great video!
We're planning a trip in 2021. I can't wait to go around town and educate my husband on some of these secret treasures of Edinburgh. We're so excited to visit your beautiful city and country.
I've walked past that ballard and never known that! Will make a note of it when I come in 10 days!
St. Cuthbert's! been there and seen the watch tower 😉 It's a lovely green spot, in the middle of the foray of traffic! 💙
and the Prince's piper! a very hard worker 😄
Love St. Giles! such an impressive building! - good tidbit about Knox! 😉
Save paradise, put up a parking lot. Thanks again! All of your little journeys are fun and interesting.
Wow great info!another A plus video about Edinburgh.
Brilliant!!! The little things are the best. I used the fire company seal on Market Street you showed us...was worth a pint. Planning to use center of Edinburgh for another pint. Thanks!!!
Stood near that post for a hour one morning as we were waiting for our bus tour of Scotland with the Rabbies. Neat to know!
Thank you for your videos! I've been to Edinburgh once and fell in love with it. Wishing I could live there. Hoping to come back later this year.
There'slots of wee secret places on Penicuik Estate, walled garden, boating pond, ruins etc' pack yourself a lunch and visit there. The Laird doesn't mind folk on his property as long as they're respectful x
Thank You Tony for the videos! I saw today the post, that marked center of Edinburgh and was wery exited🤓, that i could share my wisdom with others. All the best!
Hope everyone was impressed with the knowledge.
In the summer my cousins came over from Australia and they stayed in the princess street apartments just up the road from where you started this video, we ate in the pizza place right across the road from where the video started !!! They’re window view was also right over one 9f the graveyards, my mum and I stayed in the intercontinental across the road from the Hard Rock Cafe
Love all this and I'm making a list of all the places to see next year...thanks and keep it up...I love the love you have for your city.
Tony keep up the good work really do enjoy your tours 😀
I was in Edinburgh for the first time awesome place couldn't stay family issue but I'm back in few days again
Thanks for the interesting tid bits! I enjoyed it very much!
Great stories!! Thanks so much! That’s the first time I heard the gun shot too!
On a tour I was told that they originally buried the bodies without coffins according to reformation beliefs but it quickly became flooded with rain that spread disease so the bodies were reburied elsewhere, OTHER than Knox who was kept at St Giles as it's pastor
Perfect represantation
Pat the post that marks the center instead of messing with gray fries Bobby s nose ! I want to live in a graveyard watch tower !
I really enjoyed this video....love the history and significance of each site....more please
I'm totally going to trot this trivia out when my daughter and I stay there next month and astound her with my cleverness! Shhhh....don't tell!😁😎😉
Hi mate. Heading to a Edinburgh in a couple of weeks for the first time, your vlogs have been extremely helpful. Great work 🙌. John.
Thanks so much, hope you have A great time on your visit.
Thanks Tony, that bit you did about the GPO pole, and the fact that roadsigns are the distances to it. It was such an interesting thing. Which has just set me wondering if all cities have one. Also thank you for taking the time to research these things and also film them. 👍
Thank you for this. This is all so cool. I was there in August 2019 and I’m seeing lots of places I recognize, but I’m seeing how much I missed. I’ll study this for my next time. As soon as I find another credit card I’ll be there.
Hi Tony, three more reasons to go back to Edinburgh. Thank you! 🤩
At exactly 1.52 seconds behind your head to your right, that was from all the telegram boys came from to deliver telegrams throught the centre of Edinburgh, and during the day probably 30 at least telegram boys were on duty till 7 pm , apart from other lads who were at Stockbridge and other various places in Edinburgh .I my self was one of these lads who worked between Portobello and Musselburgh , twice a week , between 1955 and 1957 , and delivering in Portobello was the place was that i loved best , being from Bingham . Duncan Pitkeathly.
A wonderful layer added to this video. Thank You Duncan
You went a whole video without mentioning sausage roll? Are you really Tony?
And you're right, I waked right past the center of town post and missed the significance. I'll make sure to make note of it next time I head up Calton Hill. Only 9 more days til I'm back in Edinburgh.
Jealous!!!!!! Enjoy your trip.
At least they have kept the gravesight
I'm learning so much about my home town from you.......i didnt know about the post outside the GPO, i do now! 👍😊
Have you read "Secret Edinburgh: An Unusual Guide."
by Hannah Robinson?
Wee paperback full of these wee stories. It's brilliant!
@@gillfinlayson7894 No, but i'lll buy it and have a read! Thanks .👍
Tony these volgs of Edinburgh's hidden gems are what make you different and the best...PS check out some graves covered in iron bars..ggtthb..
I will put the John Knox sites on my list!
Janet Hunter .........wise woman Janet
Hi. This episode was Amazing.
Me and my partner are going to Edinburgh in october.
So we can visit the places you filmed.
This will be my seventh time i Edinburgh.
Best regards Ronnie/sweden
Countdown is on again :)
... only 16 days left...
Oh and I highly recommend THE LAMPLIGHTER by Anthony O'Neill. Because of the Watch Towers...
(There is an upcoming book launch next Thursday at Waterstones with him for his latest novel THE DEVIL UPSTAIRS)
I think Greyfriars Graveyard was created because the St Giles Graveyard became to small for burials and it was kind of protection to move away from the centre because of diseases. But I think they never moved buried bodies from there - on the other hand they moved bodies from old Calton Burial Ground to the New Calton Burial Ground. So it might be possible..
The Lamplighter is an excellent book. Thoroughly good read. ☑️ Must look out for the new one!
Another fun fact is that former General Post Office marked the start of the A1 , Britain's longest road at 410 miles or 610 km , which isn't long compared to the Pan - American Highway at 29,800 miles !. If you cross the road at that junction on Waterloo place by the centre traffic lights it is the only place you can still see the remains of the original tram tracks dating from 1871 to 1956 ! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Corporation_Tramways#/media/File:Cable_car_tracks,_Waterloo_Place__-geograph.org.uk-__1516785.jpg " The car park where Renton & Begbie had their kerfuffle ", ha ha , so funny !!!. Thanks Tony for another great vlog.
Thanks for this. I love to learn more things.
The other interesting thing about the city centre marker is that street numbers radiate away from it. I think that's true but I haven't found verification. Always find your vlogs enlightening Tony... keep it up! :-)
Front of the GPO was such a popular meeting place back in the day, and yet I didn't know about the significance of the bollard. Interesting stuff.
Nice video! Did you see the "Cemetary Cottage"? I think it used to be the church school. It's built into the cemetary wall with headstones making up part of its ground floor. I wish I had the 335 thousand pounds asking price to spend on this creepy crib! I would haunt the grounds by night...on my way to Five Guys Burgers! In years to come those who dared St. Cuthberts after dark would tell of strange "burp-like" groans that were always accompanied by the smell of fried potatoes! Go Clan Broonford!
More great things we didn't know about this great city . Visiting Edinburgh and your beautiful country in three days cannot wait very excited . Hope the weather is ok .. Tony is it true that Edinburgh is the Athens of the North.?
That’s what they call it. Have a great time.
lived in Edinburgh my whole life and i never knew about the centre
pole
Its random isn't it.
I will be stopping off at these points in 3days when I get there :)
I had always believed that the "centre" of Edinburgh was actually the corner of the former GPO building a few metres west of the post. My belief system is crumbling...
Nice video. Still learning in my pension years!
Did you know... That the oldest occupied residential house on the Royal mile is Moubray House
Also house numbers start lowest nearest the GPO. No1 princes st is at the east end and this pattern goes throughout the city. Handy to know when navigating to numbered address I the city.
Buen video amigo! 😄
Love your videos, and weird facts! Going to look for watchtower and parking spot #23. They did the same in San Diego California. San Diego, Old Town graveyard ( old for California is 1769 when first mission was made) was inconviently right where they wanted to make a street so they just paved it over and put little metal disc in the cement to let people know there is a body under there...out of respect for the dead of course! So as you walk down that area you will see (if you are looking hard) the little disc on the ground and out on the street being run over by cars! Who knows what founders are buried under the street now.
Tony great Vids. how about the Union Canal and the Shores getting some Broonfords love?
Hopefully eventually.
I knew about John Knox's grave ,on a school trip many yrs ago we visited his house.Then we we;re shown where he was laid to rest.
The post showing the center of the city is where all the street numbers in old Edinburgh started from. So if you were lost in Edinburgh, whatever street you were in if you walked towards the lowest numbered end of the street and then to the lowest numbered end of the next street etc you’d eventually get to the city centre... however this does not hold true for the parts of town which were once separate from Edinburgh but were swallowed up (Leith for example where the street numbers all start at the bottom of leith walk where the Leith main post office used to be).
That makes perfect sense. Thanks.
I remember the gpo when I was a kid, and recall the telephone place that was at the lefthand side (when looking at the building)
I have a question for you... at the end of London road (Easter road end) just on the edge of the pavement there is a brass plaque. (C S I in brass) Do you know what it’s for? Could you find out for me. I have a picture of it but don’t know what it was for.
P.S. I have sent you the picture in fb messages
P.S. I'm now an official Team Broonford member! I just signed up for a monthly donation! Been wanting to do that for months but had to pay off some bills first. Yeah!
Thank you so so much. Hope you enjoy the extra videos.
@@ClanBroonford I can't wait! Will those be accessed from the notifications tab?
So sad about John Knox's grave.
I don't think Burke & Hare were Body snatchers, (Murderers more like, ) and I think they worked on the canal.
Well, damn it... now you show me! I just left Scotland on the 22nd! Oh well... next trip (and there WILL be another!). You're right, it was packed with people attending the Fringe... and we were two of them. LOL Got to see Piff the Magic Dragon and Colin Cloud and many other street performers. It was my dream trip and wanted to see as much of Scotland possible in 8 days... without a car. So we covered Inverness, John O'Groats, Uig, Loch Ness, and a lot of other small towns along the way. It all seems like a big blur as I'm sitting here back at home looking over all the pics/videos. I must come back soon! I do have a question for you though... isn't there some kind of marker on the street/sidewalk somewhere in Edinburgh that you're suppose to spit on for good luck? I looked and looked but never found it. :( Sad about them putting a parking lot over a cemetary. But I do love this video - great job! And you're still a funny guy. lol
Yes there is a place called the Heart of Midlothian in the shape of a heart next to St Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile ! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Midlothian_(Royal_Mile)
Sounds like a great trip.
you mentioned the 'heart of mid lothian' in passing, there is a story there.
Yeah there is. I have mentioned it on a few videos. Maybe make a video about it one day.
Hi Tony as per great vid..have ever thought doing bit of history for the pentland hills or something as theres a wee part up there about the story of Robert the Bruce friend who died there that be good to show about that on here..
Thats a great idea. I did not know that.
@@ClanBroonford hi Tony sorry bother ya another wee food for thought Edinburgh zoo holding the lanterns agin and noticed u done one already as aye seen all ur vids but this year's is sooo much different as it's all about dinosaurs this year and also big event at comiccon here next mnth which is held at ingilston thought of goin to this...?
did the people in the watch towers sleep or live in these watch towers ?
and I just found out what a "bollard" is!
New sub xxx
Hey, thank you so much. Welcome to clan Broonford.👍
What time does the one o’clock gun goes off lol 😂
Half 5
When I spotted the GPO post, I thought you were going to tell us it was the only hitching post left in Edinburgh or something like that! ROTFLMAO
Tony...always looking forward to your video of Edinburgh. There is another world famous person, Adam Smith who lived and buried in Edinburgh. Last July, I was visiting Edinburgh and was staying off the Royal Mile near the Canongate Kirkyard. Found the house and the grave of Adam Smith, Father of Economics. Maybe you could do a video on such famous people lived and died in Edinburgh.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith
Thats a great idea.
We have to find that disliker!!
Everyone is allowed there own opinion.
@@ClanBroonford of course