"'IT COULD HAVE COST ME MY LIFE'"
#AlexanderLawrie for Edinburgh Evening News
#CaraHogg - a nurse from #PortSeton, #Cockenzie - narrowly avoided a fatal crash after teenagers launched a boulder from a bridge onto her car when she was driving on the #A1.
#EdinburghEveningNews
#TomorrowsPapersToday
Edinburgh pubs #50 but only after a long walk comes The Thorntree Inn (Cockenzie) and the Railway Tavern (Prestonpans) #Edinburgh #Pubs #Cockenzie #Prestonpans
#OTD (30 Sept) c.1717, #Cockenzie wright (carpenter) William Dickson recorded the well known mnemonic rhyme, ‘Thirty Days Hath September’, to help him record business transactions on the Winton Estate, such as building Scotland’s first (wooden) railway in 1722. www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk
The Muckle Cockenzie Bogle. But the fowk isna fleyed – there photies tae be taen.
The Great Cockenzie Phantom. But the people aren’t scared – there are photos to be taken.
#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #photograph #monochrome #blackandwhite #Cockenzie #Scotland #people #demolition
The Scottish Record Society publishes a wide range of Scottish records. For an #industrial history example, the Dickson Journals were published in collaboration with the 1722 WHG (@1722waggonway.bsky.social) to mark the 300th anniversary of Scotland's first railway, which carried coal. #Cockenzie
