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East Suffolk Park, the former Suffolk Road Halls of Residence, is a B-listed quadrangle of buildings set around a large central grassed area in the Newington suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was originally built as hostel accommodation for women students attending the University of Edinburgh and the
The student co-operative is home to a broad range of people from a variety of different backgrounds with a significant portion of the community coming from abroad. Membership is open to all students although there is a majority from the University of Edinburgh due to its proximity, some members study at Edinburgh College and others at Edinburgh ...
St. Leonard's Hall and Arthur's Seat. The two original buildings on site were St Leonard's Hall and Salisbury Green, which were built in the 19th century.Shortly after World War II, Sir Donald Pollock (Rector of the University from 1939 to 1945) gifted the site to the University of Edinburgh and Pollock Halls of Residence came into being.
Area which was governed by town commissioners under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act 1854, less powerful than an urban district council, and a town council under the Local Government Act 2001. Abolished in 2014.
The functions of local government in the Republic of Ireland are mostly exercised by thirty-one local authorities, termed County, City, or City and County Councils. [1] [2] [3] The principal decision-making body in each of the thirty-one local authorities is composed of the members of the council, elected by universal franchise in local elections every five years from multi-seat local ...
It is a member of the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions (OBESSU) [7] and the National Youth Council of Ireland. [8] During September 2009, ISSU modified its name from the Irish Secondary Students' Union to the Irish Second–Level Students' Union to encompass all Irish post-primary schools. [9]
W.L. Lorimer, linguist, chair of Greek at St. Andrews, chairman of the Executive Council of the Scottish National Dictionary, and translator of the New Testament into Lowland Scots. Roderick Macdonald KBE, artist. Roderick MacFarquhar, Orientalist. Charles McKean, historian and architecturalist. David MacLennan, theatre
The colony houses of Edinburgh were built between 1850 and 1910 as homes for artisans and skilled working-class families by philanthropic model dwellings companies. The first development was the Pilrig Model Buildings, near Leith Walk . [ 1 ]