Slateford

The trip back was into the bitter NE wind so it was a bit on the parky side, and the ice was much less stable when we got back to Slateford aqueduct.

Long canal run 2010

The trip back was into the bitter NE wind so it was a bit on the parky side, and the ice was much less stable when we got back to Slateford aqueduct.

Long canal run 2010

From this time the business developed rapidly, the village of Slateford being an outgrowth of it, and large rafts being employed to float the product down the Schuylkill to Philadelphia.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 Various

In 1866, when another wave of cholera swept over Britain, he was asked to go to Slateford, where he coped with its ravages almost single-handed, saving life in every case after he went, except those already too far gone before his arrival.

Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

Slateford, and Leven; of Dr George, who is still fighting the ills that flesh is heir to, in Edinburgh; of the sons and daughters of the manse who had gone to their rest; of Mrs Stevenson, then in Samoa with her son, and whose charm of personality made her dear to the old man, and lastly of 'the clivir lad,' her son, who had spent such happy days in the old manse garden.

Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

After addressing a meeting at Slateford near Edinburgh she was on the way to the station when a woman who had been in the audience took Janie and kissed her and pressed some money into her hand.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

I was uneasy, though from his riding I knew he was as yet in command, so I put Goliath to his best, and having passed through Slateford, I asked a stonebreaker if he saw a gentleman on a chestnut horse.

Spare Hours John Brown 1846

As we passed through Slateford, he spoke of Dr. Belfrage, his great-hearted friend, of his obligations to him, and of his son, my friend, both lying together in Colinton churchyard; and of Dr. Dick, who was minister before him, of the Coventrys, and of Stitchel and

Spare Hours John Brown 1846

One of the largest gold armlets ever discovered in Scotland was disinterred at Slateford in cutting the Caledonian Railway.

Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840

Their bodies were discovered following a suspected gas explosion in August last year at the townhouse they shared with Riggi, originally from the US, in the city's Slateford Road.

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