Down passages by yellow light

I took this snap as I was walking home from work. I've looked down this passage called Brodies close many times, this time I was drawn to the strings of yellow lights in the foreground and the collection of abandoned chairs in the background, a reminder of warmer busier times when the place would have been a lot livelier. This close is named after a man called Deacon William Brodie a respectable cabinet maker by day (his workshop was on the ground floor off the close) and an infamous robber by night. His reputation as a cabinet maker allowed him to access the victim's home during the day under the guise of measuring for a cabinet. When they were distracted he would take an impression of their door key (usually kept in the lock) and would then come back at night with the replica key and rob the place blind. He was eventually caught and hanged for his offences. Just another colourful character to add to the long list of strange folk who crop up in Edinburgh's history!