STEP INTO HISTORY

TWEEDDALE COURT,has a bit of history. I cant find out when it was first built, but its probably about the middle of the seventeenth century. The mansion at the back was first owned by Dame Margaret KERR, daughter of the first EARL OF LOTHIAN. In 1747 the BRITISH LINEN BANK , took it over . They used porters to take money all over the city. A porter call WILLIAM BEGBIE in 1806, was stabbed to death , with a knife covered in paper to stop the blood spraying. The
£4,392 was lost and never found. The bank was Scottish , but used BRITISH as it first opened only two year after the Jacobite rebellion. In 1817 it was taken over by
OLIVER and BOYD who published medical and educational textbooks. The company was taken over the book shop company JAMES THIN. In 1980 it became
the SCOTTISH POETRY LIBRARY. It retains the oridginal gate , and still has a room first built to shelter sedan chairs. chairs. p.s. I WILL BE ON BRITAIN GOT TALENT FROM EDINBURGH SINGING 500MILS SATURDAY 14/4 2012