Friday 24 July 2009

Trinity Church


The top photograph shows the roof of Waverley Station. However, the lower picture shows the demolition of the 16th century Trinity College Church in 1846 in an area known as Low Calton to make way for the railway station.

Saturday 11 July 2009

"Heave Awa"


In 1861, a tenement building near Paisley Close, just off the High Street, suddenly and for no reason just collapsed. As the rescuers were pulling out dead bodies, from the rubble someone shouted "Heave awa', Ah'm no deid yet". Apparently the young man pulled from the remains lived to an old age, and this is a commemoration of the incident.