Dr Andrew Balfour

A detail from the inside of a brightly painted memorial in Newcraighall. It was erected by the villagers in memory of Dr Andrew Balfour who was the doctor there for thirty years, dying in 1906.

Newcraighall was a mining village, so no doubt Dr Balfour was kept very busy. Now the memorial sits beside modern housing; with the every growing City of Edinburgh encroaching, Newcraighall is now a very different place.

And there was a geocache here too, I was teaching on the Invest course in pioneer mission at the WellSprings Centre in the former church and managed to pick this one up on the way back home.