JOYCEAN PICS 2009
Edinburgh (Dun Eideann)
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  Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station
  The Scott Monument
  The equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington
  St. Giles' Cathedral
  The Witchery by the Castle and Secret Garden Restaurant
      (The site of the restaurant where James Boswell and Dr Samuel Johnson dined)
  Edinburgh Castle
  
CONTENTS 2009
   1  Glasgow IASIL 2009@University of Glasgow
   2  Glasgow (Glaschu) and Joyce
   3  Glasgow (Glaschu): miscellanea
   4  Edinburgh (Dun Eideann)
   5  New Lanark, South Lanarkshire
   6  Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park (Pairc Naiseanta Loch Laomainn is nan Troisichean)
   7  Oban (An t-Oban)
   8  Kilchurn Castle, Argyll and Bute
   9  Inveraray Castle (Caisteal Inbhir Aora), Argyll and Bute
  10  Glen Coe (Gleann Comhann), the Central Highlands
  11  Loch Lochy (Loch Lochaidh) and Loch Oich (Loch Omhaich) of the Caledonian Canal
  12  Loch Ness (Loch Nis) of the Caledonian Canal
  13  Inverness (Inbhir Nis)
  14  Dublin (Baile Atha Cliath) and Joyce
  15  Dublin (Baile Atha Cliath): miscellanea
  16  Moneygall (Muine Gall), County Offaly
  17  Limerick (Luimneach)
  18  The Burren (Boireann), County Clare
  19  Doolin (Dulainn), County Clare
  20  The Cliffs of Moher (Aillte an Mhothair), County Clare
  21  Connemara (Conamara)
  22  London and Joyce
  23  London: miscellanea
  24  Bognor Regis, West Sussex
  25  Sidlesham, West Sussex
  26  Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

Edinburgh (Dun Eideann)
26 July, 2009


  Edinburgh (Scottish Gaelic: Dun Eideann) is the capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437.  It is the second largest Scottish city, after Glasgow.  The City of Edinburgh Council is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas.  Located in the south-east of Scotland, Edinburgh lies on the east coast of the Central Belt, along the Firth of Forth, near the North Sea. Owing to its rugged setting and vast collection of Medieval and Georgian architecture, including numerous stone tenements, it is often considered one of the most picturesque cities in Europe.  The city forms part of the City of Edinburgh council area; the city council area includes urban Edinburgh and a 30-square-mile (78 sq km) rural area.
  Edinburgh is the seat of the Scottish Parliament.  The city was one of the major centers of the Enlightenment, led by the University of Edinburgh, earning it the nickname Athens of the North.  The Old Town and New Town districts of Edinburgh were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.  There are over 4,500 listed buildings within the city.  In the 2008 mid year population estimates, Edinburgh had a total resident population of 471,650.  Edinburgh is well-known for the annual Edinburgh Festival, a collection of official and independent festivals held annually over about four weeks from early August.  The number of visitors attracted to Edinburgh for the Festival is roughly equal to the settled population of the city.  The most famous of these events are the Edinburgh Fringe (the largest performing arts festival in the world), the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.  Other notable events include the Hogmanay street party (31 December), Burns Night (25 January), St. Andrew's Day (30 November), and the Beltane Fire Festival (30 April).  The city attracts 1 million overseas visitors a year, making it the second most visited tourist destination in the United Kingdom, after London.  In a recent YouGov poll, Edinburgh was voted the "most desirable city to live in the UK".  It has an area of 100.00 sq mi (259 sq km) and the population is 471,650 or 772,400 (urban area) (2007 census).  (Referred to the site of "Wikipedia")
  
  


 
  In June [1894] news came that Jim [James Joyce] had vindicated his father's boasts about him to Fr Conmee and had been awarded ￡22 for himself and ￡12.4s.0d for the College in the 1894 Preparatory Grade Intermediate Examination.  The money was paid to John but he passed it on to Jim, who promptly began to spend it, even taking his parents out to dinner at an expensive restaurant.  It was probably this windfall and the goodwill it engendered between them that prompted John to invite Jim to accompany him on a summer trip to Scotland (perhaps, as "The Dead" seems to hint, for the wedding or funeral of one of the Malinses).  John did not have to pay for the sea crossing; as a seafaring man who knew the language since his Queenstown days, he had made friends with some of the personnel of the shipping companies when he was a Collector in the North Dock Ward and persuaded the captain of one of the Duke Line steamers to allow them an unused berth up the Irish Sea.  Jim with his winnings could help to subsidise food, entertainment and somewhere to stay.
  As Stanislaus remembered, they went first to Glasgow, then a city with a greater claim than Dublin to be the Second City of the Empire: its industrial vigour - in shipbuilding and locomotives - was quite unlike anything to be found in Dublin.  James Joyce's notes for Stephen Hero, however, strongly suggest that their final destination was beyond Glasgow and that a visit to Edinburgh featured in the lost chapters of that book - the existing parts of which are firmly rooted in fact.  Depressingly, it poured with rain, which likely forced them to spend much of their time sheltering in city gin palaces.  In delineating the development of the father-son relationship on this jaunt, another Stephen Hero note on the same page states darkly: "We cannot educate our fathers."  On the return voyage to Ireland the kindly captain was severely provoked by his inebriated friend who insisted on arguing vehemently and tediously with him about his favourite subject - Parnell.  Afterwards, as he acted out an entertaining version of the story for the family, John reflected wryly that he was lucky not to have been seized bodily and thrown into the Irish Sea.  Jim may not have been able to educate his father, but he was certainly learning a good deal from him and about him.  (John Wyse Jackson and Peter Costello, John Stanislaus Joyce: The Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce's Father (London: Fourth Estate, 1997), pp. 185-86)
  
  


  
Extracted from Louis O. Mink's A "Finnegans Wake" Gazetteer
(Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1978), pp.303-304

  
  
EDINBURGH.  The Caledonian metropolis, in the heart of Midlothian (qv), cap of the latter and of Scot.  Nicknames for E are "the mod Athens" and "Auld Reekie" -- the latter presumably referring to the precipitous crag in the very cen of the city, bearing E Cas.
  Except on the N, E is ringed by hills: Braid Hills, SW; Blackford Hill, SW; Calton Hill, E; Liberton Hill, SE; Craiglockhart Hills, SW; Corstorphine Hill, W; Arthur's Seat, SE (all named at 541.01-.04); a viewpoint from Corstorphine Hill to the E is "Rest and Be Thankful" (?118.32, 543.13).   Arthur's Sent has nothing to do with King Arthur; Ard na said, Gael "height of the arrows."
  Al of the local place-names alluded to in FW are mentioned in the 11th EB, "Edinburgh": Mons Meg is a 15th-cent cannon preserved in the Castle; the Cunzie House was the minthouse in the Old Town, now demolished (howff, Scot "place of resort," is mentioned in the same par in the EB); Echobank Cem is in S E.  Hawthornden Ho (553.22) is 10 mi from E; when it was occupied by the poet Drummond, Ben Jonson walked there all the way from London to visit him.
  Acc to J S Atherton (Books, 41-42), James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, much of which takes place in E, is JJ's source for allusions to demonic possession.
  
  018.23  Heidenbungh
  029.35  Edenbonough
  066.17  Hyde and Cheek, Edenberry
  ?118.32  we ought really to rest thankful
  183.08  Edam reeked more rare
  353.29  mordern Atems
  487.09  when I was in odinburgh
  536.09  ould reekeries' ballyheart
  537.34  my comic strip, Mons Meg's Monthly
  538.16  tiekey...coynds ore...cunziehowffse...Cash
  541.01-.04  Seven ills...Braid Blackfordrock, the Calton, the Libenton,
                Craig and Lockhart's, A. Costofino, R. Thursitt
  543.13  Rest and bethinkful
  547.31  from bank of call to echobank
  553.22  a hawthorndene, a feyrieglenn
  ?577.28  long sizzleroads neath arthruseat
  
  

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Waverley Railway Station
      Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station, Edinburgh, EH1 1BB, United Kingdom
  Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station, commonly called "Waverley," is the main railway station in the Scottish capital Edinburgh. Covering an area of over 25 acres (101,000 sq m) in the centre of the city, it is the second-largest main line railway station in the United Kingdom in terms of area, the largest being London Waterloo.  It is the northern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, and the terminus of the Edinburgh branch of the West Coast Main Line.  It is the second-busiest railway station in Scotland, with only Glasgow Central handling more passengers.  (Referred to the site of "Wikipedia")
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 (Sunday 26 July) Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station
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 (Sunday 26 July) Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station
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 (Sunday 26 July) Edinburgh Tourist Information Centre (TIC) near Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station/above Waverley Shopping Centre.  The address is 3 Princes Street Edinburgh Lothian Scotland EH2 2QP.
  
  
   
The Scott Monument
  
   The Scott Monument is a 200ft free-standing spire-- a Victorian Gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott (not to be confused with the National Monument).  It stands in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, opposite the Jenners department store on Princes Street and near to Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station.
  The tower is 200 feet 6 inches (61.1 m) high, and has a series of viewing decks reached by a series of narrow spiral staircases giving panoramic views of central Edinburgh and its surroundings.  The highest viewing deck is reached by a total of 287 steps (those who climb the steps can obtain a certificate commemorating the event).  It is built from Binnie shale quarried in nearby Livingston; the oil which continues to leech from its matrix has helped to glue the notoriously filthy atmosphere of Victorian Edinburgh (then nicknamed "Auld Reekie" ― old smokey) to the tower, leaving it an unintended sooty-black colour.  Bill Bryson has described it as looking like a "gothic rocket ship."
  Following Scott's death in 1832, a competition was held to design a monument to him.  An unlikely entrant went under the pseudonym "John Morvo," the name of the medieval architect of Melrose Abbey.  Morvo was in fact George Meikle [Mickle] Kemp, forty-five year old joiner, draftsman, and self-taught architect.  Kemp had feared his lack of architectural qualifications and reputation would disqualify him, but his design (which was similar to an unsuccessful one he had earlier submitted for the design of Glasgow Cathedral) was popular with the competition's judges, and in 1838 Kemp was awarded the contract to construct the monument.
  John Steell was commissioned to design a monumental statue of Scott to rest in the space between the tower's four columns.  Steell's statue, made from white Carrara marble, shows Scott seated, resting from writing one of his works with a quill pen and his dog Maida by his side.
  The foundation stone was laid on the 15th of August 1840.   Following an Act of Parliament permitting it (the Monument to Sir Walter Scott Act 1841 (4 & 5 Vict.) C A P. XV.), construction began in 1841 and ran for nearly four years.  The tower was completed in the autumn of 1844, with Kemp's son placing the finial in August of the year.  The total cost was ￡16,154/7/11.  When the monument was inaugurated on the 15th of August, George Meikle Kemp himself was absent; walking home from the site on the foggy evening of the 6th of March that year, Kemp had fallen into the Union Canal and drowned.  (Quoted from the site of "Wikipedia")
  It can be climbed - 287 steps to the top at the cost of ￡3.00.
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 (Sunday 26 July) The Scott Monument, viewed from Princes Street
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 (Sunday 26 July) The Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) The Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) Statue of Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832), The Scott Monument.  The inscription says:

"THE SCOTT MONUMENT
Erected 1840 - 44 to the memory of
Sir Walter Scott Bart
1771-1832.
  Born in Edinburgh, lawyer and ardent patriot, he won enduring fame as a romantic poet and the author of the Waverley novels.  This monument was designed by George Meikle Kemp and the statue of Scott is by Sir John Steell."
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 (Sunday 26 July) The Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) The Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) The Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) The Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) The Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) Princes Street Gardens, viewed from the Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) Princes Street Gardens, viewed from the Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) A view from the Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) A view from the Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) A view from the Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) Princes Street Gardens, viewed from the Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) A view from the Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) The clock tower, viewed from the Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) A Union Jack, viewed from the Scott Monument
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 (Sunday 26 July) Statue of the Scottish missionary to Africa and explorer David Livingstone (1813-1873), Princes Street Gardens
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 (Sunday 26 July) Statue of Adam Black (1784-1874), Lord Provost and member of Parliament for the City of Edinburgh, Princes Street Gardens
  
  
   
Wellington Statue
  
   The equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in front of General Register House at the East End of Princes Street, Edinburgh.  This statue is known as "The Iron Duke (Duke of Wellington) in bronze by Steele."
  One of the city's more dramatic public monuments, the Wellington Statue was unveiled on the 37th anniversary of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo (18 June 1852), during a terrible thunderstorm.  The Duke admired Steell's portrayal of his riding style enough to have two copies made for his houses in England.  The statue sits in front of Register House and face south, looking down North Bridge.
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 (Sunday 26 July) The equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in front of General Register House at the East End of Princes Street
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 (Sunday 26 July) The equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in front of General Register House at the East End of Princes Street
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 (Sunday 26 July) The equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in front of General Register House at the East End of Princes Street
  
  
   
St. Giles' Cathedral
  
   St. Giles' Cathedral or the High Kirk of Edinburgh (St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, EH1 1RE) is a Church of Scotland place of worship decorating the midpoint of the Royal Mile with its distinctive traditional Scottish crown steeple.  The church has been one of Edinburgh's religious focal points for approximately 900 years.  Today it is sometimes regarded as the mother church of Presbyterianism.  St. Giles was only a cathedral in its formal sense (ie. the seat of a bishop) for two periods during the 17th century (1635-38 and 1661-1689), when episcopalianism, backed by the Crown, briefly gained ascendancy within the Kirk (see Bishops' Wars). In the mediaeval period, prior to the Reformation, Edinburgh had no cathedral as the royal burgh was part of the Diocese of St Andrews, under the Bishop of St Andrews whose episcopal seat was St Andrew's Cathedral.  For most of its post-Reformation history the Church of Scotland has not had bishops, diocese, or cathedrals.  As such, the use of the term Cathedral today carries no practical meaning.  The "high kirk" title is older, being attested well before the building's brief stint as a cathedral.  It is the Church of Scotland parish church for part of Edinburgh's Old Town.  Five services are held every Sunday, as well as daily services and special services for state and civic occasions.  The current Minister (since 1973) of St. Giles' is the Very Reverend Dr Gilleasbuig Macmillan.
  As the name implies, it is dedicated to St. Giles, who was the patron saint of cripples and lepers and a very popular saint in the Middle Ages.  The oldest parts of the building are four massive central pillars, often said to date from 1124, although there is very little evidence to this effect.  In 1385 the building suffered a fire and was rebuilt in the subsequent years.  Much of the current interior dates from this period.  Over the years many chapels, referred to as 'aisles', were added, greatly enlarging the church and leaving it rather irregular in plan.  In 1466 St Giles was established as a collegiate church. In response to this raising of status, the lantern tower was added around 1490, and the chancel ceiling raised, vaulted and a clear storey installed.  By the middle of the 16th century (before the Reformation) there were about fifty altars in the church.  St. Giles has both some of the best stained glass windows in Scotland, dating from the 19th and 20th centuries (none survives from the medieval period). The most well-known windows include the: Victorian Windows, Burne-Jones Window, North Window, and the Burns Window.  The Victorian windows were commissioned by Sir William Chambers, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, who spearheaded the (extremely intrusive) restoration of St. Giles in 1872.  Until this time St. Giles had, since shortly after the Reformation, consisted of several churches within the main edifice, divided by walls and with galleries inserted into the vaults.  The restoration reunified the church into a single space.  Tragically, an obsession with a barren 'symmetry' led to the actual demolition of parts of the kirk (notably on the south side, where a number of chapels had been added piecemeal during the late Middle Ages).  The exterior of the building, except for the tower and crown spire, was refaced in bland grey sandstone ashlar and standardised 'Gothic' ornament alien to Scottish medieval architecture, which paid scant heed to the original, strikingly individual, appearance of the church.  Much of the unique character and historic interest of St. Giles (undisputably one of Scotland's most important - and prominent - historic buildings) were thus recklessly destroyed in a 'restoration' chiefly notable for combining ignorance with arrogance.  The contrast with a recent (late 20th century) sensitive restoration of the crown spire, which included the regilding of various pinnacles and ornaments, could not be more marked.  (Quoted from the site of "Wikipedia")
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 (Sunday 26 July) Statue of Adam Smith (1723-1790) in front of St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.
  He was a Scottish political economist and philosopher. His Wealth of Nations (1776) laid the foundations of classical free-market economic theory.
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 (Sunday 26 July) St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
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 (Sunday 26 July) St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
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 (Sunday 26 July) St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
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 (Sunday 26 July) Inside St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
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 (Sunday 26 July) Inside St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
  
  
   
The Witchery by the Castle and Secret Garden Restaurant
  
   The Witchery by the Castle and Secret Garden Restaurant (Castlehill, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh EH1 2NF) is situated on Castlehill and established in 1984, the candlelit Witchery by the Castle claims to be a frequent destination for visiting celebrities.  James Boswell, acclaimed for his literary classic The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D (1791) is reputed to have met and dined with his friend Dr Samuel Johnson in this building circa 1770.  Behind the Witchery, in the formal but friendly Secret Garden Restaurant the waitresses are knowledgeable and helpful and the food is delicious.
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 (Sunday 26 July) Plaque of The Witchery by the Castle and Secret Garden Restaurant, explaining the reputation of the building connected with James Boswell and Samuel Johnson
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 (Sunday 26 July) The Witchery by the Castle, Castlehill, The Royal Mile
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 (Sunday 26 July) Secret Garden Restaurant, Castlehill, The Royal Mile
  
  
   
Edinburgh Castle
  
   Edinburgh Castle is an ancient fortress which dominates the sky-line of the city of Edinburgh from its position atop the volcanic Castle Rock.  Human habitation of the site is dated back as far as the 9th century BC, although the nature of early settlement is unclear.  There has been a royal Castle here since at least the reign of David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until the Union of the Crowns in 1603.  As one of the most important fortresses in the Kingdom of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle has been involved in many historical conflicts, from the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century, up to the Jacobite Rising of 1745, and has been besieged, both successfully and unsuccessfully, on several occasions.  From the later 17th century, the Castle became a military base, with a large garrison. Its importance as a historic monument was recognised from the 19th century, and various restoration programmes have been carried out since.
  Few of the present buildings pre-date the Lang Siege of the 16th century, when the fortifications were largely destroyed by artillery bombardment.  The notable exception is St Margaret's Chapel, the oldest surviving building in Edinburgh, which dates from the early 12th century.  Among other significant buildings of the Castle are the Royal Palace, and the 15th-century Great Hall.  The Castle also houses the Scottish National War Memorial, and National War Museum of Scotland.
  The Castle is now in the care of Historic Scotland, and is Scotland's second-most-visited tourist attraction.  Although the garrison left in the 1920s, there is still a military presence at the Castle, largely ceremonial and administrative, and including a number of regimental museums.  It is also the backdrop to the annual Edinburgh Military Tattoo, and has become a recognisable symbol of Edinburgh and of Scotland.  (Referred to the site of "Wikipedia")
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 (Sunday 26 July) Entrance to Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) The Gatehouse of Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) The Scottish Royal Arms as represented on the Gatehouse of Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Half-Moon Battery, Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Argyle Tower, Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) The Scottish Royal Arms as represented on Argyle Tower of Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) The Castle Gates under Argyle Tower, Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) New Barracks (right) and Regimental Museum of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (left), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Regimental Museum of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Regimental Museum of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Foog's Gate, Edinburgh Castle.
  The main entrance to the Citadel by the 17th Century.  The Perimeter Wall looped for both cannon and musketry, was built in King Charles II's reign (1660-1685).
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 (Sunday 26 July) Foog's Gate, Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Royal Palace, Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Saint Margaret's Chapel (12th C), Edinburgh Castle.
  The oldest building in the castle built by King David I (1124-1153( and dedicated to his mother who died here in 1093.  She was created a saint in 1251.
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 (Sunday 26 July) The altar of Saint Margaret's Chapel (12th C), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Inside Saint Margaret's Chapel (12th C), Edinburgh Castle: St. Margaret's Gospel Book
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 (Sunday 26 July) A stained glass of Saint Margaret's Chapel (12th C), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) A stained glass of Saint Margaret's Chapel (12th C), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) A stained glass of Saint Margaret's Chapel (12th C), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) A stained glass of Saint Margaret's Chapel (12th C), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Scottish National War Memorial (1927), Edinburgh Castle.
  Built as a memorial to those from Scotland who died in the Great War [World War I].  Now a shrine to the memory of the fallen of Two World Wars and of campaigns since 1945.
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 (Sunday 26 July) Scottish National War Memorial (1927), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Scottish National War Memorial (1927), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Scottish National War Memorial (1927), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Scottish National War Memorial (1927), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Great Hall (1503-1513), Edinburgh Castle.
  Built for King James IV (1488-1513) as a majestic setting for ceremonial occasions.  It was converted in 1650 into a soldiers' barracks by Oliver Cromwell.  It was restored in 1887 and is used today for state and royal functions.
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 (Sunday 26 July) Inside Great Hall (1503-1513), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Inside Great Hall (1503-1513), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Inside Great Hall (1503-1513), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) The ceiling of Great Hall (1503-1513), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Prisons of War, Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Prisons of War, Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Prisons of War, Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Prisons of War, Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Argyle Battery (1730s), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) Argyle Battery (1730s), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) A cannon port of Forewall Battery (1544), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) A cannon port of Forewall Battery (1544), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) A cannon port of Forewall Battery (1544), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) A cannon port of Forewall Battery (1544), Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) A north view from Forewall Battery, Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) A north view from Forewall Battery, Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) A north view from Forewall Battery, Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) A north view from Forewall Battery, Edinburgh Castle
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 (Sunday 26 July) A north view from Forewall Battery, Edinburgh Castle




        


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