All About Edinburgh

14/10/2026

For all VICTORIA STREET START AT THE STEPS WHERE THE BUILDING WITH ARCHES IS UPPER BOW AND VICTORIA TERRACE. NOW STOP TELLING EVERYONE THAT VICTORIA STREET IS WHERE ALL THE COLOURED BUILDINGS ARE THAT IS WEST BOW. A CLUE THE PUB ON THE SOUTHSIDE OF STREET IS CALLED WEST BOW see

West Bow in Grassmarket Edinburgh has been nicknamed Diagon Alley because of simillarites with the street in Harry Potter Witches and demons. The West Bow conects the Grassmarket to the Royal Mile and the New Town at Victoria Street with George IV Bridge Edinburgh.

13/10/2026

All About Edinburgh local map has passed the 10m mark of people using my google map

20/09/2026

https://www.golfscot.co.uk/dean-village
All the ingormation aboutthe Dean Village

Dean Village was a small village outside Edinburgh known as Water o Leith Village, and was famous as a grain milling area for over 800 years. The name Dean (Dene) meaning Deep Gorge. The village has steep hills on all sides.

03/09/2026

www.allaboutedinburgh.co.uk is about to be hudated with more historic sites ans history of Edinburgh.
Meantime you can find all the site on a record breaking map I have created, has been seen by 4,300,000 views, 268,000 last month.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://maps.google.co.uk/%3Fq%3DEdinburgh&ved=2ahUKEwjEpfKg2tKWAxV49rsIHZ0FBGYQFnoECDUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3wMXapC2PBi1OQQN0qpMVD

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

29/08/2026

I was touring 3 Argentine Scots born here in 1940s. We went up Calton Hill and taking the view north west. After 7 hours looking around places the first perfect words in English she spoke were
'what is that' ? and then said ' who woud let anyone allow that to destroy such a beautiful city'?

I just had to laugh and agree. W

27/08/2026

De Lestalric’s were owners of the lands we know from Leith which included Craigentinny to Portobello as Restalrig.
Restalrig and what to see
Saint Triduana
Deanery Walls Restalrig
Police Box
De Lestalric’s Built a castle at Loch End
The Great Lafayette
Craigentinny Castle
Miller Mausoleum
Cragentinny Marbles
All the history on

Restalrig and Craigentinny were at one time open field with a catle and Loch and two further large houses thith the estate spreding from Portobello to Leith. William Millar and his family lived here and the family Tomb can be seen with the Craigentinny Marbles attached set in open land with views

27/08/2026

Edinburgh has a emense history. There is the Original Edinburgh and suburbs extended old town south of Edinburgh, New Town New town North, East and West. The Canongate, Bruntsfield and Morningside, Portobello, Cramond, Corstorphine, and Leith. All the history and places to visit can be found on www.allaboutedinburgh.co.uk and for further away it includes areas East West and Mid Lothian, Queensferry, Linlithgow, Grangemouth, Falkirk, Stirling, Dunfermline, Culross, St Andrews and Scottish Border Towns.

All About Edinburgh information on all main attractions, Royal Mile, Edinburgh Castle, Arthur Seat, Holyrood Palace, Museums, Art Galleries, Graveyards, famous people and maps on where everything can be found. see maps

11/08/2026

James Young (Paraffin)
James Young invented the process of

extracting, paraffin oil, paraffin wax,

and crude oil from oil shale,

which began an oil boom in West Lothian.

The evidence still remains in the Bings

that are pink shale waste,

seen around west Lothian countryside.


James Young (BP)
James Young (1811-1883), engineer,

founder of first commercial oil-works

in the world and was regarded

as the father of the petrochemical industry.

The company set up by

James Young circa 1860

is now part of a well-known company

worldwide BP.

For more information on

James Young

and the Shale Gas industry.

Go To

Museum of the Scottish
Shale Oil industry
Almond Valley Heritage Centre,

Millfield, Livingston,

West Lothian, EH54 7AR.

The shale Oil Industry of Scotland ended circa 1960

the museum tells the story of the industry

with many artefacts from years gone bye.​​

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11/08/2026

High street West the Festival in full swing with the free street performers