To Mary, Re the discussions on Rose Street. We are all trying to research our ancestry and sometimes we find pirates and sometimes we find kings. I am trying to find an accurate and precise image of my gggm and I do not want to smear her name with inaccuracies; hence, the discussion. I apologize if the discussion has offended you or any other person on this list. But the list is supposed to be for research. Kathleen
To John Stevenson Re Rose Street and Freecensus website. This website contains no images only printed material. In one of your emails you mentioned someone who is researching the history of Rose street. I would like to communicate with this person. Is that a possibility? regards....Kathleen
< Does anyone know what is at 111 Rose St now ? When in Edinburgh, I forgot to find 111 Rose St ., ( so many things, & places to find , ) I did , however go to 8 Bright Terrace, about 7 years ago.> A quick google brought this up - http://www.rockcandygallery.com/contactrockcandy.html Carol -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 7380 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now!
Good evening Kathleen> > > I must admit that I have never seen the words brothelkeeper or > prostitute on any census page. My gggm lodgers were tradespeople: > joiners, saddlers, carpenters, waiters, her son, an accountant and her > few daughters. This is why I got in touch with June as I hadn't seen the terms used !! Have you looked at "Free-CEN " ? http://freecen.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl I checked about twenty No's in Rose Street yeaterday and found nothing Regards John John D. Stevenson Edinburgh [email protected] > > How does one locate an exact address on the census? > > I am really, truly looking for an accurate portrayal of what went on > at 6 east rose st. south side in 1841 to 1861. > > regards...kathleen > > June Ducan wrote: > > it's been a while since i transcribed that part of the 1841 but if > memory is correct it was at the register house end as it also covered > canal st which is now waverly station etc. The enumerator had written > lodging house keeper on numerous occasions and it had been scored out > and brothel keeper written. also lots of ladies had occupation as > dressmaker and this was also scored out and prostitute written. You'd > have to look at the original OPR film to get the exact house street > numbers > June Duncan wrote: > > I helped transcribed the 1841 census and Rose st was part of the area > I > did. There were certainly lots of brothel keepers and prostitutes in > 1841. I live in edinburgh and have never known Rose St to be the red > light area in the 70s. A couple of streets down from Rose St, Danube > St, > was were the prostitutes hung out but that area has changed now and > they > are nearer to Leith. not sure when rose St became 'respectable' but I > would have classed it as red light in 1841 time I have heard that Rose > street was at one time a red light district. Do you know enough about > Edinburgh to know at what point in history this occurred? > regards......kathleen > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Hello, I am searching for information on my Family Line and in particular Alexander WEMYSS and his wife Mary Mc MICHAN. In fact any information on the above surnames in Edinburgh and surrounds. It does appear that Alexander was also from Edinburgh as well. 1. Alexander WEMYSS, He married on 11 Jan 1769 in Saint Mary Le Bow, London, Mary Mc MICHAN, born 10 Mar 1749 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, daughter of John and Catherine (McArthur) McMichan. Notes for Mary Mc Michan >From Edinburgh when married to Alexander. Children of Alexander1 Wemyss and Mary Mc Michan were as follows: i Mary2 , born abt. Mar 1771 in London. 2 Thomas2 Alexander2 , born 10 Oct 1774 in London. Generation 2 2. Thomas2 WEMYSS (Alexander1), born 7 Jul 1772 in London; christened 2 Aug 1772 in Founders Hall lothbury Scots Church, London Notes for Thomas Wemyss The Gentleman's Magazine July 1842 - Page 435/436 April Mr Thomas WEMYSS He was be believe the son of a Merchant in Edinburgh and brought up to the profession of the law, but he subsequently devoted himself to the study of the Bible in the original languages and to the collection from varied sources illustrations and elucidations of the sacred narrative. Written by Sir Thomas Wemyss REID (Thomas WEMYSS's grandson.) My mother was the daughter of Thomas Wemyss, of Darlington, a well known Biblical scholar and critic, a kinsman of the poet Campbell, and a direct descendant of the Stewarts of Ascog, Bute, a family which traced its descent in unbroken succession--with the bar sinister at the start--from Robert II. of Scotland. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/581 - Release Date: 9/12/2006
Good evening June, Many thanks for that and have passed it on to my friend for her use ! The east end of Rose Street makes sense as farther west one went the more "respectable" the occupants became ! As I said previously many of the new owners of houses in the first New Town ,who had moved from the Old Town, brought their dressmakers, miliners etc with them and in many cases paid the rent of their houses. These were mostly west of , what is now, Hanover Street . Thanks again. Regards John John D. Stevenson Edinburgh [email protected] > hi John > > it's been a while since i transcribed that part of the 1841 but if > memory is correct it was at the register house end as it also > covered canal st which is now waverly station etc. The enumerator > had written lodging house keeper on numerous occasions and it had > been scored out and brothel keeper written. also lots of ladies had > occupation as dressmaker and this was also scored out and prostitute > written. You'd have to look at the original OPR film to get the > exact house street numbers etc<html><DIV><FONT face="Lucida > Handwriting, Cursive" color=#660099>June <IMG height=12 > src="http://graphics.hotmail.com/emsmile.gif" > width=12></FONT></DIV></html> > > > >> From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> >> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:26:10 +0000> Subject: Re: [SCT-EDINBURGH] >> 1851 street map of Edinburh> > Interesting , I have just checked a >> sample of Rose Street 1841 Census (No's > 130/150) and can find no >> mention of Brothel/Prostitute .. Lodging House yes > which could I >> suppose be another name.> Can you give me house numbers of the >> establishments you have found.as I am > carrying out work , on Rose >> Street, for a friend who is researching a social > history of the >> New Town> > At that time there certainly were Mr Hall's Brothel in >> George Street , Mrs > Scott's in North Castle Street and at least >> one hotel in St Andrew's Square > known for its "ladies"> > " A >> couple of streets down from Rose St, Danube St, was were the > >> prostitutes hung out but that> area has changed now and they are >> nearer to Leith. "> There was one house operated by the infamous Mrs >> Noyce - no women "hung out > in the street"> Nearer to Leit! > h - which means ?> > TIA> Regards> John> > John D. Stevenson> > Edinburgh> [email protected]> > > > > > June Duncan > wrote:> > hiya> >> > I helped transcribed the 1841 census and Rose st > was part of the> > area I did. There were certainly lots of brothel > keepers and> > prostitutes in 1841. I live in edinburgh and have > never known Rose> > St to be the red light area in the 70s. A couple > of streets down> > from Rose St, Danube St, was were the prostitutes > hung out but that> > area has changed now and they are nearer to > Leith.> >> > not sure when rose St became 'respectable' but I would > have classed> > it as red light in 1841 time<html><DIV><FONT > face="Lucida> > Handwriting, Cursive" color=#660099>June <IMG > height=12> > src="http://graphics.hotmail.com/emsmile.gif"> > > width=12></FONT></DIV></html>> >> >> >> >> From: [email protected]> > Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:42:47 -0500> To:> >> > [email protected]> Subject: Re: [SCT-EDINBURGH] 1851 street> > >> map of Edinb! urh> > Thank you Chris for that information. I will > try> >> the websit > e.> > I have heard that Rose street was at one time a red> >> light > district. Do> you know enough about Edinburgh to know at what> >> > point in history this> occurred?> regards......kathleen> > >> >> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list,> >> > please send an email to [email protected] with the> > >> word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of> >> the message> > > _________________________________________________________________> > > Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail.> > > http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d> > >> > -------------------------------> > To unsubscribe from the list, > please send an email to> > [email protected] with > the word 'unsubscribe'> > without the quotes in the subject and the > body of the message > > > -------------------------------> To > unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with ! the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _________________________________________________________________ > Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. > http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
hi John it's been a while since i transcribed that part of the 1841 but if memory is correct it was at the register house end as it also covered canal st which is now waverly station etc. The enumerator had written lodging house keeper on numerous occasions and it had been scored out and brothel keeper written. also lots of ladies had occupation as dressmaker and this was also scored out and prostitute written. You'd have to look at the original OPR film to get the exact house street numbers etc<html><DIV><FONT face="Lucida Handwriting, Cursive" color=#660099>June <IMG height=12 src="http://graphics.hotmail.com/emsmile.gif" width=12></FONT></DIV></html> > From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:26:10 +0000> Subject: Re: [SCT-EDINBURGH] 1851 street map of Edinburh> > Interesting , I have just checked a sample of Rose Street 1841 Census (No's > 130/150) and can find no mention of Brothel/Prostitute .. Lodging House yes > which could I suppose be another name.> Can you give me house numbers of the establishments you have found.as I am > carrying out work , on Rose Street, for a friend who is researching a social > history of the New Town> > At that time there certainly were Mr Hall's Brothel in George Street , Mrs > Scott's in North Castle Street and at least one hotel in St Andrew's Square > known for its "ladies"> > " A couple of streets down from Rose St, Danube St, was were the > prostitutes hung out but that> area has changed now and they are nearer to Leith. "> There was one house operated by the infamous Mrs Noyce - no women "hung out > in the street"> Nearer to Leith - which means ?> > TIA> Regards> John> > John D. Stevenson> Edinburgh> [email protected]> > > > > > June Duncan wrote:> > hiya> >> > I helped transcribed the 1841 census and Rose st was part of the> > area I did. There were certainly lots of brothel keepers and> > prostitutes in 1841. I live in edinburgh and have never known Rose> > St to be the red light area in the 70s. A couple of streets down> > from Rose St, Danube St, was were the prostitutes hung out but that> > area has changed now and they are nearer to Leith.> >> > not sure when rose St became 'respectable' but I would have classed> > it as red light in 1841 time<html><DIV><FONT face="Lucida> > Handwriting, Cursive" color=#660099>June <IMG height=12> > src="http://graphics.hotmail.com/emsmile.gif"> > width=12></FONT></DIV></html>> >> >> >> >> From: [email protected]> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:42:47 -0500> To:> >> [email protected]> Subject: Re: [SCT-EDINBURGH] 1851 street> >> map of Edinburh> > Thank you Chris for that information. I will try> >> the website.> > I have heard that Rose street was at one time a red> >> light district. Do> you know enough about Edinburgh to know at what> >> point in history this> occurred?> regards......kathleen> > >> >> -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list,> >> please send an email to [email protected] with the> >> word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of> >> the message> > _________________________________________________________________> > Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail.> > http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d> >> > -------------------------------> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to> > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe'> > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d
To June Duncan I started this discussion re Rose st where my gg grandmother had a lodging house in the 1851 and 1861 census. She was specifically located at 6 east rose st south side. I do not have access to the images of those census only the typed material on Ancestry.com. Can anyone out there with access to the images of this location be able to email me those pages 1841 through 1861? I must admit that I have never seen the words brothelkeeper or prostitute on any census page. My gggm lodgers were tradespeople: joiners, saddlers, carpenters, waiters, her son, an accountant and her few daughters. How does one locate an exact address on the census? I am really, truly looking for an accurate portrayal of what went on at 6 east rose st. south side in 1841 to 1861. regards...kathleen June Ducan wrote: it's been a while since i transcribed that part of the 1841 but if memory is correct it was at the register house end as it also covered canal st which is now waverly station etc. The enumerator had written lodging house keeper on numerous occasions and it had been scored out and brothel keeper written. also lots of ladies had occupation as dressmaker and this was also scored out and prostitute written. You'd have to look at the original OPR film to get the exact house street numbers June Duncan wrote: I helped transcribed the 1841 census and Rose st was part of the area I did. There were certainly lots of brothel keepers and prostitutes in 1841. I live in edinburgh and have never known Rose St to be the red light area in the 70s. A couple of streets down from Rose St, Danube St, was were the prostitutes hung out but that area has changed now and they are nearer to Leith. not sure when rose St became 'respectable' but I would have classed it as red light in 1841 time I have heard that Rose street was at one time a red light district. Do you know enough about Edinburgh to know at what point in history this occurred? regards......kathleen
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:20:57 +0000, you wrote: >hiya > >I helped transcribed the 1841 census and Rose st was part of the area I did. There were certainly lots of brothel keepers and prostitutes in 1841. I live in edinburgh and have never known Rose St to be the red light area in the 70s. A couple of streets down from Rose St, Danube St, was were the prostitutes hung out but that area has changed now and they are nearer to Leith. In Danube Street there was a notorious brothel I had a friend who lived opposite it in the 1960's. Apparently on Sunday mornings a queue would form outside consisting mostly of waiters from the Chinese restaurants. David
Good morning all, ] I have a PCC will 1855 and I now see that there is a will for the same person in the Scottish Wills. Would or could there be a difference--or maybe there was estates in both place. Any ideas? Marg
Well now, its night time here ;-) Hope this might help you understand the system. You need to be sure that the Will you have is that of the person you think has made it. Not necessarily so. I have one I purchased, i.e paid a fee to view of the same name, same location, but absolutely not the person I thought had made the Will. Under Scots law moveable property (clothes, furniture, farm stock, crops etc) was disposed of in a will or testament, and heritable property (buildings, land) was disposed of by deed (these records have not been digitised). There were rules governing the inheritance of moveable property, which meant that it could be divided up among the family *without a will being made*. A Testament would however have to be sworn. You can find more information about this in the Property and Inheritance FAQs on ScotlandsPeople:- http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/faqs/questions/index.aspx?380 The website of the National Archives of Scotland (NAS) has information about heritable property:- http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/deeds.asp http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/inheriting.asp Janet www.globechatters.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "margaret" <[email protected]> > Good morning all, > ] I have a PCC will 1855 and I now see that there is a will for the same person in the Scottish Wills. > Would or could there be a difference--or maybe there was estates in both place. > Any ideas? > Marg
Interesting , I have just checked a sample of Rose Street 1841 Census (No's 130/150) and can find no mention of Brothel/Prostitute .. Lodging House yes which could I suppose be another name. Can you give me house numbers of the establishments you have found.as I am carrying out work , on Rose Street, for a friend who is researching a social history of the New Town At that time there certainly were Mr Hall's Brothel in George Street , Mrs Scott's in North Castle Street and at least one hotel in St Andrew's Square known for its "ladies" " A couple of streets down from Rose St, Danube St, was were the prostitutes hung out but that area has changed now and they are nearer to Leith. " There was one house operated by the infamous Mrs Noyce - no women "hung out in the street" Nearer to Leith - which means ? TIA Regards John John D. Stevenson Edinburgh [email protected] June Duncan wrote: > hiya > > I helped transcribed the 1841 census and Rose st was part of the > area I did. There were certainly lots of brothel keepers and > prostitutes in 1841. I live in edinburgh and have never known Rose > St to be the red light area in the 70s. A couple of streets down > from Rose St, Danube St, was were the prostitutes hung out but that > area has changed now and they are nearer to Leith. > > not sure when rose St became 'respectable' but I would have classed > it as red light in 1841 time<html><DIV><FONT face="Lucida > Handwriting, Cursive" color=#660099>June <IMG height=12 > src="http://graphics.hotmail.com/emsmile.gif" > width=12></FONT></DIV></html> > > > >> From: [email protected]> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:42:47 -0500> To: >> [email protected]> Subject: Re: [SCT-EDINBURGH] 1851 street >> map of Edinburh> > Thank you Chris for that information. I will try >> the website.> > I have heard that Rose street was at one time a red >> light district. Do> you know enough about Edinburgh to know at what >> point in history this> occurred?> regards......kathleen> > > >> -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, >> please send an email to [email protected] with the >> word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of >> the message > _________________________________________________________________ > Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. > http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
hiya I helped transcribed the 1841 census and Rose st was part of the area I did. There were certainly lots of brothel keepers and prostitutes in 1841. I live in edinburgh and have never known Rose St to be the red light area in the 70s. A couple of streets down from Rose St, Danube St, was were the prostitutes hung out but that area has changed now and they are nearer to Leith. not sure when rose St became 'respectable' but I would have classed it as red light in 1841 time<html><DIV><FONT face="Lucida Handwriting, Cursive" color=#660099>June <IMG height=12 src="http://graphics.hotmail.com/emsmile.gif" width=12></FONT></DIV></html> > From: [email protected]> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:42:47 -0500> To: [email protected]> Subject: Re: [SCT-EDINBURGH] 1851 street map of Edinburh> > Thank you Chris for that information. I will try the website.> > I have heard that Rose street was at one time a red light district. Do> you know enough about Edinburgh to know at what point in history this> occurred?> regards......kathleen> > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d
Good morning, Would like to put the record straight on Rose Street . As a young man after WW2 I along with many others , male/female , frequented Rose Street pubs on Friday/Saturday evenings. Never was this street classed as a "Red Light District" . Yes there were girls aplenty as there were in hostelry's in most other pubs and hotels in the city centre. - but certainly no organised prostitution In the 19th C it was home to mostly artisans . Many of the families who relocated to the New Town housed their shoemakers, milliners,wig makers etc in Rose Street to ensure they were close by when needed. There werebakers, butchers , livery stables, plumbers , joiners even "ornamental ironmongers" operating there to tend to the needs of the New Town householders To call it a "Red Light District" is incorrect. Suggest one check's out Census returns for 1851/61/71 Regards John John D. Stevenson Edinburgh [email protected] > I was wondering whether "south side" might have referred to one of > the lanes behind Rose St. I think these are now called 'lanes' but > don't know if that is a new thing. > > It was certainly known as a red light district as late as the 70s, > but I think that may have been wishful thinking on the part of > students. > > Judy > > > > On 10 Dec 2006, at 17:42, k c wrote: > >> Thank you Chris for that information. I will try the website. >> >> I have heard that Rose street was at one time a red light >> district. Do >> you know enough about Edinburgh to know at what point in history this >> occurred? >> regards......kathleen >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-EDINBURGH- >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:42:47 -0500, you wrote: >Thank you Chris for that information. I will try the website. > >I have heard that Rose street was at one time a red light district. Do >you know enough about Edinburgh to know at what point in history this >occurred? I write as someone who was born and brought up half a mile from Edinburgh's West End and knew it fairly well between 1945 and 1971 before I left to live in London. To me a red light district is one where the vice trade is openly on display. The obvious signs of such a trade are illuminated doorbells with the notice along the lines "Attractive Model Upstairs" as in Soho, London or ladies hanging out windows as in Amsterdam. To my knowledge these have never applied in Rose Street, at least post war. Unless anyone knows differently of course! Rose Street contained, and still does, many public houses and eating places. No doubt there could be found some measure of a vice trade in such a popular street, as in many such popular streets in many similar cities but the legend of Rose Street derives overwhelmingly from the pubs. Few people could have a drink in every Rose Street pub in one night but many tried. To some that was reason enough to avoid the place. I can recall as a youth thinking that other specific places in Edinburgh had similar colourful reputations. [The Shore, Leith springs to mind but again the trade was never openly on display to the extent that the term red light district could reasonably apply.] The sight of certain Edinburgh bars/dance halls/ and the hill in Princes Street Gardens when the US fleet [and on many occasions ships from many other countries] had anchored in the Forth and the crews were in town lives with me to this day. To watch the US Navy shore patrols at work was a sight to be seen - boy the batons they carried were so much larger than the truncheons used by "the Edinburgh Polis". [UK sailors were of course always perfect gentlemen when in town and never gave any trouble ;-)] These were guys visiting a beautiful city and meeting beautiful girls and everyone having a good time. Was there a vice trade - well there must have been but where isn't there in the circumstances. Even when the fleets were not in town you could always find the action in Edinburgh at the weekends where airmen from the nearby USA Kirknewton airbase came to town to party. The places frequented [eg The Berkeley in Lothian Road because unusually it had a dance floor] certainly had reputations of where to go to meet girls. I remember bumping into my father and uncle when I came out of one late one evening with a girl. At least I had gone there with the same girl with me in the first place but it still caused considerable comment from both of them later on. Sorry to have gone on a bit but just wanted to give you my impressions and recollections of Rose Street. I have ancestors who lived in Rose Street in 1910. They married into a family named Baldo who had a restaurant there.
Lister, I am researching the Ferguson's of Edinburgh. My great grandfather Henry Ferguson was a Poulterer in St. Andrew's. He died in Morningside Edinburgh 1903. He lived at 23 Cowan's Close Edinburgh. I have also never been able to find it. Does anyone know about the street and it's housing? Nancy Duffy Canada
My mother grew up in Edinburgh in the 40s and 50s. While she's never referred to it as a "Red Light" district, she has told me that as a girl, she knew never, never, NEVER to go in to Rose Street. Leslie k c wrote: > Thank you Chris for that information. I will try the website. > > I have heard that Rose street was at one time a red light district. Do > you know enough about Edinburgh to know at what point in history this > occurred? > regards......kathleen > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >
Hi Kathleen, Cowan's Close runs/ran southwards off the Cowgate not far to the east of where it passes under George VI Bridge. This would be c. 1/2 mile from E. Rose St. Best wishes, Sheena Ireland ....................................... Message: 1 I found the following two addresses in the 1851 Scottish census: 9 Cowan's Close, St. Cuthberts 6 East Rose Street South Side, St. Andrews I don't think that Cowan's Close exists today. Will sks with access to a legible 1851 street map of Edinburgh please look up these addresses and tell me the distance between the two? I've tried looking online, but can't locate Cowan's Close. thank you...kathleen ................................................ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/581 - Release Date: 09/12/2006 15:41
http://www.nls.uk/maps/townplans/edinburgh1056_1_sw.html you need sheet 29. East Rose Street Lane is marked on the south side of Rose Street, the lanes on the north side have no names. But there are little side streets off the Lane so perhaps that is where your ancestor stayed. Judy On 10 Dec 2006, at 17:55, judy olsen wrote: > I was wondering whether "south side" might have referred to one of > the lanes behind Rose St. I think these are now called 'lanes' but > don't know if that is a new thing. > > It was certainly known as a red light district as late as the 70s, > but I think that may have been wishful thinking on the part of > students. > > Judy > > > > On 10 Dec 2006, at 17:42, k c wrote: > >> Thank you Chris for that information. I will try the website. >> >> I have heard that Rose street was at one time a red light >> district. Do >> you know enough about Edinburgh to know at what point in history this >> occurred? >> regards......kathleen >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-EDINBURGH- >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-EDINBURGH- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message
I was wondering whether "south side" might have referred to one of the lanes behind Rose St. I think these are now called 'lanes' but don't know if that is a new thing. It was certainly known as a red light district as late as the 70s, but I think that may have been wishful thinking on the part of students. Judy On 10 Dec 2006, at 17:42, k c wrote: > Thank you Chris for that information. I will try the website. > > I have heard that Rose street was at one time a red light > district. Do > you know enough about Edinburgh to know at what point in history this > occurred? > regards......kathleen > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-EDINBURGH- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message