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    The Grassmarket is a historic market place, street and event space in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. In relation to the rest of the city it lies...
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    under his command to quell a disturbance during a public hanging in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh in April 1736. Although the rioters were generally supportive...
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  • a cast member in March 2023. Filming began in mid-August 2022 in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh, and continued in London in September. Among the filming locations...
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    elevated streets of South Bridge and George IV Bridge. It meets the Grassmarket at its west end and Holyrood Road to the east. The Cowgate developed...
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  • Singh ran a pop-up restaurant for the Edinburgh Festival at the Apex Grassmarket Hotel which served a range of foods, including haggis pakora.[better source needed]...
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    the gory Porteous Riots was one such painting. People gathered at the Grassmarket, where Andrew Wilson and George Robertson, local robbers and merchants...
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    Advocates Close Chambers Street Cockburn Street Cowgate George IV Bridge Grassmarket Mary King's Close The Mound Ramsay Garden Royal Mile (List of closes...
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    council accordingly decided to extend the wall south to take in the Grassmarket and Cowgate areas of the burgh. Construction began the following year...
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    ECA is mainly located in the Old Town of Edinburgh, overlooking the Grassmarket; the Lauriston Place campus is located in the University of Edinburgh's...
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    anniversary of the birth of author Muriel Spark. The Vennel off the Grassmarket in Edinburgh appears in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)...
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    historical interest nearby are Greyfriars Kirkyard and Mary King's Close. The Grassmarket, running deep below the castle is connected by the steep double terraced...
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    Mercat Cross, Edinburgh, (off the High Street), the Castlehill and the Grassmarket. The Maiden was lent to Leith in 1591 for the execution of William Gibsone...
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    Films & Documentaries Archived 9 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine. grassmarket.org (11 November 2017) "Telugu Cinema Etc". Idlebrain.com. Archived from...
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  • remaining convict, Andrew Wilson, was taken to be publicly hanged in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh, on 14 April 1736. His body was cut down against the wishes...
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    Early photograph of the Grassmarket in Edinburgh, one of the locations in Confessions, taken around 28 years after publication of the novel....
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  • shot on location in Edinburgh, with specific locations including the Grassmarket and the Royal Mile. The Hoppy, a pub in Meadowbank, was used as the Fringe...
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  • Hunter launches another attack, seizing control of the newly opened Grassmarket District of Garland Square and holding STF Director Grant Kessler's daughter...
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    (in two sections, North and South). This connects Castlehill with the Grassmarket via Johnston Terrace. With buildings on only one side, it is not typical...
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    Saint", because his residence was near the top of the West Bow, off the Grassmarket, and "saint" was a popular epithet for particularly fervent Calvinists...
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    schools and urban missions. The Robertson Memorial Mission in Edinburgh's Grassmarket is named after him. He was born in Eyemouth, Scotland on 28 July 1805...
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    west to east: West Port, the old route out of Edinburgh to the west Grassmarket, the area to the south-west Edinburgh Castle The Cowgate, the lower southern...
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    a regular worshipper at Presbyterian religious meetings held in the Grassmarket; he was seldom seen without a bible. William Hare was probably born in...
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    Square Theatre Mayfield Salisbury Church Teviot Traverse Theatre Sweet Grassmarket Royal Over-Seas League Assembly Rooms Dance Base Pleasance Dome Summerhall...
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  • originally as a second-hand bookshop at 2 West Bow, just off the city's Grassmarket, recognizing a ready market for inexpensive, standard editions of non-copyright...
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    ale was sold in the taverns of the High Street, the Cowgate and the Grassmarket in Edinburgh’s Old Town. Robert Chambers, in his Traditions of Edinburgh...
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    The castle is built on a volcanic rock, as seen here in a 19th-century view from the Grassmarket area...
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    emblem.[citation needed] In Edinburgh, "The White Hart" is an inn in the Grassmarket, established early in the 16th century. It stood a few hundred steps...
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    He relished operating successfully in the reeking tenements of the Grassmarket and Lawnmarket on patients they had discharged as hopelessly incurable...
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    and turned them over to the Crown. They were tortured to death in the Grassmarket in Edinburgh on the orders of the Regent, James I's widow, Joan Beaufort...
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    wells on the "charmed circle" of Holyrood through Canongate, Cowgate, Grassmarket and Fountainbridge; and that due to the quality of this water, brewer...
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