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Special publications offer

Looking for an unusual present for someone?  Why not make a gift with a difference: volumes of our occasional publication, Book of the Old Edinburgh Club!  Details of all the publications can be found on the Publications page.  Edinburgh residents, to whom we can make a personal delivery of the volumes, can buy a copy of all the 6 currently-available volumes for the special price of £32!  Details of how to purchase the volumes are on the Publications page.   


Greyfriars Kirk Visitor Centre
 
Greyfriars Kirk visitor centre would like to recruit more volunteer guides for the 2010 season in order to extend its visitor services.  If you are interested in the history of the Kirk, Edinburgh and Scotland, and enjoy meeting people and sharing your interest with them, the Kirk would like to hear from you.  Guides greet some of the many thousands of visitors who come to Greyfriars each year and make their visit memorable.  The Kirk is looking for people with two hours to spare weekly or fortnightly from April to end October.  Training will be given, usually on Thursday afternoons, prior to the season opening.  Please contact the Visitor Centre Manager, Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk, Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh EH1 2QQ. 

Cecilia Christina Cavaye

We are sad to announce the death of our friend, Old Edinburgh Club council member and ardent 'Edinburgher', Cecilia Christina Cavaye on 19th July 2009.
As many Edinburgh citizens will know she was the proud daughter of the late Stanley and Beatrice Cavaye. Cecilia was a musician and teacher, late of George Watson's College. The funeral service will be held at Old St Paul's Episcopal Church, Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh on Tuesday 28th July 2009 at 11.30am followed by a burial at Liberton Cemetery, to which all friends are invited. There will be a retiral collection in aid of St Columba's Hospice.


Civic Reception

Edinburgh City Council held a Civic Reception to mark the Club's centenary on Tuesday 2 December at the City Chambers. The photograph shows the Club President Dr Iain G. Brown FSA FRSE with The Rt Hon George Grubb, Lord Lieutenant and Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh.   



Council members make their way over Forrest Road for the unveiling.


Graeme Cruickshank and Iain G Brown show off the newly unveiled plaque. Note the row of setts on the pavement which delineate the position of the wall.

Old Edinburgh Club bronze plaque unveiling 

On the last day of 2008, a bronze plaque commissioned by the Club was unveiled to mark the site of the Flodden Wall at Bristo. The meeting place was the lane at the rear of the Scottish Museum and after a speech by our worthy president, Dr Ian G. Brown, members of the council were led over Forrest Road by a young piper where the unveiling ceremony took place.

The plaque, which also celebrates the Old Edinburgh Club's centenary, was the conception of council member Graeme Cruickshank and was manufactured by iron and bronze founders Charles Laing & Son, an Edinburgh family business.


The Old Edinburgh Club, Centenary Conference 

To celebrate 100 years as Edinburgh's leading history society, the Old Edinburgh Club hosted a very successful one-day conference on Saturday 4th October 2008.

Read the full report.


Graeme Cruickshank and the group at the long section of the Telfer Wall at Lauriston Place.
A walking tour round the old city walls, 18th July 2008

Summer Visits
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