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The Pleasance is a theatre, bar, sports and recreation complex in Edinburgh, Scotland, situated on a street of the same name. It is owned by the University of Edinburgh , and for nine months of the year it serves the Edinburgh University Students' Association as a societies centre, sports complex, student union bar and entertainment venue.
The Scottish Borders is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. [3] It is bordered by West Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian, and East Lothian to the north, the North Sea to the east, Dumfries and Galloway to the south-west, South Lanarkshire to the west, and the English ceremonial counties of Cumbria and Northumberland to the south.
Map of Boon farm in the Scottish Borders, published in 1924 Source Original publication: A Farmer's Fifty Years in Lauderdale, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh Immediate source: Dr. Robert Shirra Gibb, A Farmer's Fifty Years in Lauderdale, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1927, facing p.50 Date 1927 Author Dr. Robert Shirra Gibb (Life time: 12 January 1924)
Main Entrance. Borders Family History Society, (BFHS), founded in 1985, is a members and research society which concentrates on the Scottish Borders region in south-eastern Scotland, comprising the ancient pre-1975 counties of Roxburghshire, Berwickshire, Selkirkshire and Peeblesshire, as well as small parts of the former counties of Midlothian (formerly Edinburghshire), and adjacent counties ...
As the Southside's population and church congregations declined in the wake of the Second World War, neighbouring churches united with Charteris Memorial: first Pleasance in 1953, forming Charteris-Pleasance Church; then Buccleuch and Nicolson Street in 1969, when the name Kirk o' Field Parish Church was adopted; then St Paul's Newington in 1983.
St Leonard's is a neighbourhood of south-central Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.Once notable as a centre of industry, it is now primarily residential. The area takes its name from the mediaeval hospital of St Leonard, which stood on St Leonard's Hill on the edge of Holyrood Park.
The scheme for classifying buildings in Scotland is: Category A: "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic; or fine, little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type." [1]
In Scotland, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of "special architectural or historic interest". [1] Category A structures are those considered to be "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic, or fine little-altered examples of some ...