Edinburgh | Royal Mile | High Street

Edinburgh | Royal Mile | High Street

Well see I don’t know how you can have a weak network connection if you’re on 5G and it’s saying you’re on 5G hi hi Tish so is the signal okay because it’s saying I’ve got a transmission issue like that’s not right oh so I’ve

Had to walk away from where I was to try and find a find a signal that isn’t going to be rupy oh well at least it’s not raining today yesterday was awful I was very wet by the time I got home not sucking but damp you know that damper you get

Yeah so I hope you’ve all been having a good day hi Laura hi Debra oh so yeah I’ve just been um into St Jail’s trying to work out um I’m going to make a video of St Jail’s because the one the original one I had I did a lot of it too

Fast so I thought I’ll redo it and then we’ll we’ll do it as a Premiere and hopefully enjoy that cars cars cars anyway s pink waving hi Camila oh dear yeah so I think do St Gil’s maybe try and get it done tomorrow see what what I’m up to um cuz I think

It’ be quite nice to take some time and just appreciate it when we’re in there uh so we’ll get that done and on Monday remember I’ve got Craig Miller castle that’s Premier in um so I don’t think the video is too fast this time so hopefully hopefully it’ll be better than the last

One so was a we bit H there was a couple of parts in there that made me feel a bit queasy it’s the turnpike staircases they’re a nightmare so we’ve got 3 minutes to go and then uh my hair’s just flown right over the top of me we’ve got

3 minutes to go and then we’ll get started it was nice and quiet but because they were the van came they’ve all had to move right in front of me so sorry about the noise but yeah by the Jules have arrived oh should I be

Scared oh my yeah so I’m just uh I’ve got the premier on Monday and then is it Tuesday or Wednesday I’ve got another tour but it’s a surprise um because I’m a way on tour so I’m going to find see where’s got signal and we’ll do

Something from there um you know just do something different so that’ll be fun uh and hopefully I’ll be making a couple little videos while I’m away for you to watch um so yeah hi Natasha all of that pink hand waving so yeah let me see I think we’re

About 2 minutes to go maybe yep 2 minutes to go and then we can get started oh it’s so much nicer weatherwise today yeah cuz yesterday was just Dam but it always makes the the lines a bit kind of well not foggy but just not not clear so I’m quite I’m

Quite glad that stopped hi Ley I so yeah oh there’s the bells that’s St Jail’s just donging away once it’s finished donging we’ll get started it’s actually really busy today and I think it’s just cuz the weather’s slightly better it is windy but it’s only about I think the gusts are about

25 miles an hour they’re nothing spectacular I thought it was going to dong but it’s not where are my dongs was that it we’re getting there we go there’s the first one there we are so that’s 2:00 ready for us to start okay welcome to Edinburgh my name is Sam Thompson and

Edinb tour guide and I’ve been a tour guide for 24 years and guide all over Scotland and today we’re looking at the High Street section of the royal mile so the middle part is quite windy though um just before we get started I just want to talk about the lives once I’ve done

The live I will then put it into members only um so if you’re a member of the channel you can rewatch it whenever you like uh that way um the members are getting something for the membership um and it means that there isn’t 60 versions of me walking around the old

Viewable at any one time so it’s just to make it easier and this is um tip supported so if you’re able to give a tip um that is very much appreciated because it helps keep the channel going uh so yes if you have any questions ask

Them uh I may or may not be able to answer them because it’s daylight and I can barely see the writing on the screen at the moment going to have to try and work out how to change that in prism but at the moment I haven’t worked out a way

To do it and it is definitely not wet so I’m a happy bunny right we’re going to turn turn the camera around it’s not too cold for my fingers to work fantastic so where we’re standing we are just at the end of the lawn Market oh gimbal what are you doing

To me oh there goes my hat now the gimbal’s playing up right 2 seconds while I try and get gimbal under control there we are right so across the road you can see it says the lawn Market well lawn market so as soon as we cross over

That’s us into the High Street section of the royal M now the Royal mile goes from the castle at the top to the Palace at the bottom it’s 1 mile 106 yard between two Royal residents and that’s where we get the name from now just before we get on to that

Though just to get your bearings cuz I know some of you like to look at maps and some of you may have been here before so if we stand here and look down St jail street that Gothic Spire is the Scot Monument so that is on Prince Street so

If you know where Princess Street is you kind of got the idea of of where we are now the Scott Monument is the tallest monument to writer in Britain it’s over 200 ft tall 287 steps and if you make it to the top they give you a certificate hi

Anna oh I didn’t see at girl popping in hi everyone so yeah so that’s that’s something for another day I don’t think I’ll ever take you up the Scot Monument to be fair it’s a Turnpike staircasing yeah very tight now this statue is the fifth Juke of bclu the marus of

Queensbury the belu family were one of the largest land owners in Scotland it was said you could walk from one side of the country to the other oh sorry I’ve just I I tried that i’ fall over sorry I lady just went over a chain rather than walk in front of me which

Was so sweet but oh my um so yeah one of the largest land owners in Scotland but it’s an absolutely beautiful statue there’s a lot of detail on it uh let me see if we can get a little bit closer so here you you’ve got different scenes from their

Life so yeah if you get the chance it is a nice one to have a look at I think we might do a statues of Edinburgh tour one day now the High Street section is the main or was the main street in the old town and where this open space is here

This is where the Edinburgh toll booth was now I mentioned toll booth yesterday a toll booth is the Civic Center where you paid your taxes where you went to prison so the toll booth was the prison on top of the toll booth we also had an execution platform and spikes where you

Could impale heads uh of um people who misbehaved now it’s kind of strange to think that the toll booth the main prison was right in front of St Giles the high Kirk of Edinburgh there’s been a church onor near this site since the 800s and it was given its Royal Charter

In the 1120s by David the who was the son of Queen Margaret St Margaret um and it’s a beautiful building and I am going to do a video of St Giles just so we can spend some time actually looking at it but on the pavement just in front of me

Here is the heart of midlan okay so I’m channeling camil I’m coming down so this marks The Condemned cell or the the the door to the toll booth and the tradition in Edinburgh is you spit on it now you’re spitting on it for luck um you don’t walk walk on it

Cuz it’s bad luck if you don’t believe in luck you don’t want to walk on it cuz people have been spitting on it so it can get a bit slippy okay um now this comes from the tradition that people when they walked past the toll booth would spit on the

Door um of the toll booth and that would uh show their contempt for the prisoner or contempt for the law depending what side they were on but before we go downhill I just want to take you over because it’s daylight and I can show you

Um I want to show you oh don’t worry about being late it’s fine on right I’ll go this way because this is now the French Institute uh used to be the registar office birth death marriages now hopefully the signal is is behaving oh yep hopefully uh I just wanted to show you

The one of the old doorbell sergeant of police caretaker isn’t that gorgeous so yeah you’ve got to um yeah remember to look up remember to look down and just remember to look for these little details that sometimes you Miss oh okay Deborah don’t worry about it I hope everything works out for you that’s uh that’s horrible now before Co you could actually get up to the top of the crown Spire um they took you up in a group of four uh and that dates back to the 1500s

Which it it had been untouched from the 1500 so absolutely amazing to be able to to kind of walk on this something that’s 500 years old now the front of St Giles St Giles is the patron saint of Edinburgh he’s also the pain seat of nursing mothers um

And we’ve got this beautiful entrance this was part of a a revamp that took place in the 1800s so when I do the tour of St jails I’ll go over the outside and tell you who all these different people are now normally I take you around to

Back so I think we’ll go down to front for a change now Advocates close you get beautiful views down there um and there’s also some old door lentils now the signal sometimes works and sometimes it doesn’t so what I’m going to do is I’m going to

Go in we’re going to hope for the best if the signal goes stay with me because when I come back out of the close uh it’ll be there again right excuse excuse me thank you right I’m trying to get through as quick as I can so the signal doesn’t doesn’t doesn’t leave

Us right I’m not going to go any further I just wanted to show you the view that you can get and you see the stairs lots and lots of stairs in Edinburgh and they’re always for going down don’t try to go up them okay but the other Little

Gems we have here which are easy to miss is the carving above the the doors here GC HB sorry and then you’ve got the coat of arms in the middle 1590 and then you have another one there 1590 bless it to be God all all his gifts so that is a

Fairly common religious inscription you’ll find on lots of doorways so I’m just going to come out as quickly as I can so hopefully the signal stays with us thank you there we go right hopefully we’re back so Oldtown Chambers is a relatively new hotel uh and you’ve got the lucking

Booth and the lucking booths are locked booths that used to run along the outside of St Jail’s and there were like little square boxes and you can see the the studs on the ground showing you where they were and so there were little mths where Merchants could trade and then lock up at

Night you’re back okay sorry it’s just it’s such a beautiful detail down there to see it but the signal doesn’t always appreciate me doing it so I’m going to take you over to the am cross and we’ll have a little look at this cuz there’s lots of detail on it

And a lot of the time people just see the unicorn and that’s all they they kind of notice so mer cross is Market Cross um at the top you can see there’s a unicorn in Scotland the armorial beer is a unicorn in England it’s a lion it’s holding up the lion

Rampant um unicorns are real they’re just very small and invisible now on the am cross there’s lots of Coats of Arms so we’ve got Ireland on the right so the harp of the blue background and then we’ve got the Royal coat of arms there for the king so you have two line

Rampant one set line Recumbent and one heart that’s the Scottish version in England it’s different and then as we come around we can see this is leth our Port P of year this one is right I’m going to ask you cuz if you were with me yesterday you should know what this one

Is pop it in the comments let me know where you paying attention I don’t know probably not and it’s the cannon gate the Stag’s head with a cross between the antlers oh it did stay okay that’s Brilliant sorry I’m sorry now if you look up here we’ve got the coat of arms of Edinburgh University if you’ve only just got married and you’re hiding from them now it’s no good look right and then right here we have England so that’s the coot of arms of

England the three line recumbents and then here we have the coat of arms of Edinburgh so you’ve got the castle the three towered Castle the maiden and the deer the deer St Giles shielded from being shot by the king of France and then you’ve got the lion

Rampant right so let you see the bride one last time they’re hiding I’m not sure who they’re hiding from but anyway now just here this is Adam Smith he was an economist he Wealth of Nations he actually lived and died in the cannon gate sorry this it’s really hard to see the the

Comments you came too late okay right so I’m just going to take it over to the city Chambers and but I’m going to show you the Edinburgh words now Mary Queen of Scots this is linking to the tour on the premier I’ve got on Monday at 10:00 uh Craig Miller

Castle Simon Preston Sir Simon Preston was a friend of Mary Queen of Scots and this is where she spent her first night in captivity in Edinburgh before she was transferred to L leav castle so his house was on this site so here we’ve got the Edinburgh Awards you’ve got right hold on I’m

Going to play with the gimbal cuz she’s she’s having a moment can’t get her to right anyway so here we’ve got the edor awards you’ve got JK Rowling Harry Potter Ian Rankin Reus Noel George care Judo Chris Hoy cycling and then here Professor Peter higs higs

Bo on Tom galain he was was a lovely guy used to collect for charity and then on this one you’ve got Dody Weir played rugby his hands are massive he was such a nice guy so you’ve got all the handprints up here and they just keep going and keep

Going now the city Chambers were actually built to get the merchants off the street uh hi Sweden um because edmmer was trying to improve its image so it built this Courtyard uh all around here we had coffee shops where people of learning could come and discuss the issues of the

Day okay the trouble is if you trade around the amk cross which is in the main street if somebody owes you money at some point they will have to walk past you to get their money like they’ll have to walk past you and you can get

Your money you can go where’s my money if you trade in the street um it’s fine take them off the street and put them in a building you can walk past as much as you like because they’re not going to see you um so the merchants moved out and

Then eventually became the city Chambers now someday yesterday when we were looking at the pillar box the post box um had mentioned the crochet tops and I’m going to show you one in a second now this statue is Alexander the Great and his horse beilis but the crochet top is just over

Here on top of the oops it Daisy on top of the uh the the pillar box so right so here it is what’ you think Easter there we go right okay I’m just going to take us back out cuz although it’s a weden they’re quite um sprinkling with their

Their language which I don’t want on YouTube CU I want to stay monetized so Alexander the Great now if you look at the horse look at it ears there was a a dispute over the cost of the statue because when it was originally quoted for they accepted the price and then

The cost of materials went up so uh the sculptor asked for more money and they was refused so to get his own back he gave the statue pigs ears so if you look at that that’s not horse ears that’s pig’s ears yes right so the bride is hanging hiding

Behind the AMC cross so the groom doesn’t see her until it’s time for the wedding I think that is what what is happening Oops there goes my hat again it’s quite windy now ahead of us there’s lots and lots of closes this section is closed at the moment you can see the ballards are up now the am cross originally stood here where the marking on the ground is you just see it there old Fish Market

Close is where the fish market was it was described as a a stinking Ravine you can imagine the smell of a rotting fish and raw sewage would have been quite unpleasant it’s where my granddad was born B with close the place names are telling you stories who lived there what

Was carried out there or what you’re actually looking at and the word close c l o s e means it’s a dead end and the word wind w y n d means it’s a through gang an open-ended Street where will we go actually we’ll have a look at old assembly close cuz

They’ve got the uh the ghost signs you know the old shop signs on the wall Smith Fletcher and Suns Iron Works manufacturers so old assembly close you can see the main feature was that’s where the old assembly room was and then downhill we’ve a new assembly close because that’s where the new assembly

Rooms were and then once they built the new town they decided they didn’t want to keep coming into the old town uh and they moved the assembly rooms uh into the new town and now this is Anchor close anchor close is where the anchor Tavern was so the main feature is the

Pub uh but this is where the encyclopedia britanica was first published in three volumes yeah everyone thinks it’s English or or American they don’t realize it was started here and one of the editors for the Encyclopedia Britannica was a man called tatler and if you’ve been on my dudingston Village

You’ll know all about that gentleman so when you’re in Edinburgh look out for these little plaques they tell you a little snippet of the history of the place you’re looking at the problem is they blend in quite well so you don’t always see them now just here we’ve got Gordon’s

Troia and you can see the St the the sign on the wall there uh formerly the shop of James Gillespies of SPO tobacco and snuff Merchant founder of James gp’s Hospital School um now when you see the word hospital when you’re in the 16 1700s it doesn’t mean hospital that we

Think of today it means Hospitality so it was somewhere for poor people or children could stay overnight kind of thing so it’s more to do with that now his shop would open at 6:00 in the morning and close at 10:00 at night and once you tried to Snuff you never went anywhere

Else and the reason for that was he added opium to Snuff yes now James Gillespie’s Hospital School later became James Gillespie’s High School which is the school iend I attended so my claim to fame is I went to school found by a drug dealer yep that’s my claim to fame

People now just ahead of us we have new assembly close because that’s where the new assembly rooms were I’m going to take you over to Steven law close cuz it’s a really uh I love what they’ve done with the light installation here now Steven law close

Has been on this site or has been recorded on this site uh for 860 years and the w of the close this is typical of the width of the strip of land you were given the tough or the few so very very um narrow uh passageways

Cuz you don’t want to waste any space um because the strip of land was so narrow that you don’t waste space with the the passageways so here you can see how they’ve made this more appealing to people uh at night time it’s very very dark so they’ve put these light

Installations in and you can see the light reflecting on the walls so it’s like little birds fluttering as you walk in I’ll I’ll do it at night one time I’ll I’ll record it and put it on so if you look across the road you’ve got uh Balmoral and the currency

Exchange four Windows wide that is kind of like the the width of the Toof or the few the strip of land you were given very very narrow so you don’t want these big passageways taking up valuable space we were a w city um now flesh Market

Close a flesher is a butcher so that’s where the butchers and the abire were at the back you had the fruit market as well now these are anti-terrorism so that arm can swing around and shut the street down very very quickly so during the International Festival they’ll close

The street off and make that whole section behind us um pedestrian they’re really ugly it’s a shame they you know other places have lovely big planters with trees and things now just here we’ve got cobern Street Coburn Street was built as part of the Railway access act and it cut

Through all the closes going up um towards the city Chambers so all the closes on this side of the road here were cut through to make this nice wide Street to allow horses and cages um to go down there it can be if you’re not used to going down the closes it can

Feel quite claustrophobic a bit intimidating you know and they they can be very very dark but once your eyes adjust it’s fine it’s just that initial if you’re not used to it you don’t you don’t want to go in cuz you you know obviously um in some places you wouldn’t

Go down Alleyways but here you’ve not got much of a choice now cobern street is spelled c o c k b u RN okay but it’s pronounced Coburn and we had a lord Coburn and if you mis uh mispronounced his name and put the CK in when he was

Your judge he would double your sentence um so yes now across the road we have uh you can see the sign for the Royal Mile in black and then underneath it says the High Street and you have a pub there called the albak now albak means Scotsman sassinak means Saxon or English

Man um and it’s GAC and you have a lot of GIC you already know that you just don’t realize it the word Lo Loess that means Lake in GIC there’s always one that wants to get his to it’s of Fame I wouldn’t want to jump on an old lady’s

Stream though to be fair I think if I was going to do it I’d want to go into like a pop video or somebody trying to break into Shas just to get that extra um that extra bit of viewing oh yeah there’s the man that chased me through the graveyard threatening to

Smash my head in with my gimbal now as we come around the corner here you can see the Dome uh that’s old college for the University of Edinburgh um old College it’s got this beautiful quad Martin if you’ve been on his tours back in hego days he

Used to take you into Old College it’s really lovely the statue on the top is youth holding a loft the torch of knowledge um yeah now this church is the Tron t r o n a Tron is a weighing beam so if you imagine an upright and a crossbar with two

Baskets um oh no that’s my uh monetization just disappeared right there with that song oh right I’m going to move over because I’m going to have to shout to be heard cuz the speaker quite loud once we get in the corner here it should be Okay actually there we go I think we’re doing yeah I think it’ll be here me now right so the Tron the church you can see here it’s not as big as it was originally cuz when it was built it was actually t-shaped and to make access for the

South Bridge which is running straight ahead of us they trimmed off the side of the church and then it looked a bit lopsided so they trimmed off the other side and then to balance up they trimmed off the back of the church as well so

There’s not a lot of it left from the 1600s now there was a fire um in 1824 which burnt down quite a large section of the High Street uh on the other side of the road there and they thought they had the fire out they actually thought

They dealt with the fire and um there were still some Embers in the air and they got onto the steeple of the church which was wood and lead and then it ignited and we lost the steeple of the church as well but if you look up that steeple was added in

1828 and this is traditionally where people met at New Year to celebrate New Year we’d all gather around the Tron now the in on the mile beautiful building it’s a British linen Bank building so up the top there it says BLB now the British linen Bank was set up by

The linen merchants in Scotland uh to look after their their money at the time we weren’t allowed to call ourselves Scottish so we had to call it British now when you look there is actually an illumination there it’s not like just now but it says let’s talk about art

Maybe it’s now uh a very small sort of what you call them boutique hotels and a bar on the ground floor now across the road you have the Radison so the Radison hotel is only 34 years old but part have been allowed to build here is they had to build inke

Keeping with the rest of the old town and as we look at the radic uh it runs all the way down nidre street uh to the other corner at black frer streight and down a bit so it’s a huge site the nice thing they’ve done although it’s when you look at it now

You can see there’s too much symmetry there’s too many straight lines for it to be original but you see this cream stripe that you’ve got and then the orange stripe that’s reminding us of the Old Town H and how the buildings were these tall narrow uh strips of land that

You were given and your house just went higher and higher and that wooden part you can see is actually a little nod to a building that’s further down the Royal mile so here we’ve got another pillar box this one doesn’t have any initials on it the new ones I believe will have e

No they’ll have C R3 is it is it the third King Charles yeah when they bring the new ones out so here we have kber close kber clo always looks grubby it doesn’t matter what they du it it always looks a bit of a mess but when the episcopalians were

Um ejected from St Giles they actually came down into kber close and this is where they set up their church so they is still an Episcopal Church down at the bottom today love the old signs the miter and this clock one I think that’s really pretty trouble is you’re you’re so busy looking

At eye level you tend you forget to look up right now if you do happen to be coming down this way this is North gra close um I’m not going to go in cuz I lose the signal but in fact can I zoom in do you think will it let me

Zoom do you see that lentil that was originally above a door it says blessed be the Lord for all his gifts 1587 vhn m going to come out now so that was placed there in 1813 when the building it was originally on I don’t know was taken down fell down

Burned down they didn’t really keep a record of these things so every now and again you walk in somewhere look up and you discover something you didn’t know was there be like now Black frier Street um black frer street is where the black frier Monastery was uh we had a

Gray friers we had a black friers we had a white Friar um and it’s descriptive of the what the the garments that they wore so the gray friers were called gray friers cuz they wore undyed wool the black friers were black the white friers were white um we actually lost the

Location of the monastery but in high school yards which is down the dip and up the other side of the Hill um they were doing work and they discovered a medieval Knight’s grave and it was a very prestigious grave so at that point they realized they’d found the location

Of um where the monaster had been now we didn’t get as much publicity as we had hoped on that one because at the same time in England they found a king in a car park and you know a king’s going to Trump a night now just here we have Paisley close

So paisely close um this is where we get our kils by the way if you’re wanting a Kil made to measure this is quite a good one um above the entrance here you can see the boy’s face and it says he watch UPS I’m no did yet and if we look up you

Can see the buildings are quite low here compared to what’s around and that is because in the 19 1860s 103 on 99 to 103 the High Street section collapsed and it killed 35 people and 3 days after the collapse they were clearing the rubble and in the

Basement they heard a boy shout he a wall ads I’m no dead yet so to commemorate the fact he survived they actually put his face on the new build now the reason for the collapses there was a merchant on the ground floor who bought a coffee mill he didn’t want

To take it in through the shop so he took it down the clo and knocked through the wall and that was the only thing really holding the building up at that point um it didn’t collapse right away it took a few hours and then it just

Went down and it was quite strange for people because the way that it collapsed once the dust had settled it actually just crumpled onto itself so when you looked above the mound of rubble you could see the fireplaces with the fire still burning in them um this whole

Section was in the 1860s was Notorious in Eden because of the stench coming from it um the people who lived here were the very very poor and they would complain about movement that if it got very windy the building would move but because the facade was from the 1700s

People didn’t realize the bits at the back were 16 and 1500s um so yeah it was in a very a very bad State now because of the collapse the good thing that came out of it is we got our first Health Minister a man called Dr Little John he limited the

Height of the buildings the number of people that could live in the and it really kickstarted the city improvements and just across the road you can see the Museum of childhood bringing up baby it’s on several floors H and it’s George and edwardi and Victorian toys um so

Yeah if you’re you’re into twice you can go and have a little look at that we’re quite lucky most of the museums here are actually free uh oh yeah the Museum of magic and fortune telling okay is just down the close here can’t remember how much it is to

Get in I think it’s about 8 or something so it’s just down when the white wall ends the entrance is just there it’s not very big but it’s quite interesting now ahead of us we have John Knox house uh it’s unlikely that John Knox actually lived in the building but

They were going to knock it down to wide in the street and Lord C went no you can’t no live there and because of the association nobody would touch the building the building itself parts of it date to the 1490s so yeah we’re very lucky still to have

It but we’ll have a look at that in a second I just want to show you the whale head so this is one of the original whale heads it dates back to the 1670s uh you can see the hole where the handle would have been so there would

Have been a handle here and then the water would come out of the mouth here and if you look here you can see it’s very worn on the left side because you’d put your foot there put the bucket on your knee and then pump with your right hand you didn’t pump with your

Left hand because people could accuse you of being a witch yeah I might actually might do a video in the museum for you then if you fancy it we could do that now I’ll just let you see the little plaque again cuz it’s dark you don’t

Always see it but there you go so you can see nether bow wellhe head nether B low gate uh Wellhead or sister is the oldest surviving sistern designed by Sir William Bruce surveyor of the royal works there you go all right now if you look at John

Knock’s house you can see there’s a big window underneath it there’s a marriage Stone it says I m m a James mosman Mareta you have Moses kneeling on a sundow reaching up to God to receive the Ten Commandments and underneath in Gold writing it says love God above all and thy neighbor as

Thyself now when you see why I or y e it isn’t pronounced ye um before printing presses were invented we had these symbols that gave you the th sound um so it’s the the let get a be bit closer know the ladies moved a we bit beautiful but again these are things

You miss when you look right well I’ll definitely do that museum for you now remember I said that the Radison Hotel was having a little nod to a neighbor down the way there it is now this building parts of it date to the 1470s and inside there’s actually a a

Secret chamber a painted chamber right I’m just going to go around this weed group here all right I’m just going to nip up the stairs here I want to show you hopefully this is all right so when you come up the stairs there’s actually a nice plaque up

Here and it shows you a nice map this is a map from 16 is it 1647 there it is there’s the date so as you look at it you can see on the left you’ve got the castle then you’ve got the old town so the lawn Market you can

See St Giles right in the middle there um and then you can see this line where all of a sudden it gets very relaxed and spread out so that’s the cannon gate end so just ahead of us there’s the World’s End pub there’s the cannon gate now the difference between the

Canon gate in Edinburgh is Edinburgh had a wall we were a world city and you can see the body of water so this funny bit here is meant to represent the norlo or the North Lake so we were walled on three sides we couldn’t go out the way

So we just had to keep going up the way and that’s why the streets were so narrow because you didn’t want to waste any space now if you look at it it looks like the skeleton of a fish the head’s the castle the tails the palace and all

The little streets coming off are all the little bones now that’s a detail showing you uh the nether B Port the low gate which stood just in front of us where the traffic lights are okay and this this is a drawing showing you what the gate actually looked like and it’s such a

Shame we lost it it was taken down in 1764 to make access easier heart breaking it’s just like no right as we come around I’m just going to let you have a little look back up the Royal mile now you can see this is this is wooden the addition the extension that’s

Been built the jutting out is wood so when you look at the old town and you look at the buildings A lot of them kind of looked like upside down pyramids because they were wider at the top than they were at the bottom all right so when you’re in Edinburgh just

Come to JN kno’s house and it shows you all the different things that are on that you can you can go and enjoy and there’s something happening here all the time it’s the Scottish storytelling Center the storytelling tradition was dying out in Edinburgh and this was an

Attempt to revive it John knock’s house you can actually visit as well it gives you the history of nox but also uh Scotland at the time Edinburgh um so it’s quite a nice one to go into and full price is 7 concessions concessions are over 60s and that’s £550 so there you are

Now these four stairs these little cupboards here you would keep your pigs in you kept pigs and poultry at the front of your building sheep and cattle at the back yes what a thought now this had been added to the nether bow port in 16006 God saved the king and you can see

The initials I 6 James Rex 6 a and Regina 1606 oopsy don’t know what that was something far right not sure what it was right now unfortunately oh children I’m going to come this way at the back of the storytelling Center John knock’s house I’m just going to so you can get in that way that takes you up to the

Cafe the haggus Box they do haggus snaps tatties vegan vegetarian sandwiches coffees uh all sorts of things they’ve usually got nice soups as well but just in here you can just make out the greenery this is bad malls close now that Garden is a public garden to

Get into you going through chunks close walk down take a right and there you are at the Garden this lovely little quiet Green Space and it has a a monument to Patrick Gus who’s known as the father of modern town planning so there’s lots of little places where you can kind of

Escape the hustle and bustle now as we look across the road we’re looking at tweeddale court um I’m going to do another video of tweeddale court at some point uh I can’t take you in because last time the last few times I’ve tried the Signal’s just been atrocious but you

Can kind of you can get the idea um Straight Ahead that cream building down the close that dates to the 1700s um it’s tweedale Mansion it’s where Oliver and Boyd produced books now but it’s also where the British linen bank had its head office but it’s a beautifully decorated entrance so when

You see these closes don’t be shy about going into them because you will find things you’re not expecting then just across the road we have the World’s End pub and the World’s End close for the poor people in the city This Is the End into the world it

Was free to leave but you had to pay to get back in and people just couldn’t afford to do it so they spent their entire life within the city walls and as I said the other day the walls aren’t for um defense really it’s about controlling the movement of people um

Because whenever somebody attacked the city uh say during the rough woing when Henry VI e wanted his son to marry Mar Queen of Scots the in infant um he just blew the gates open you know so it wasn’t really stop people coming in that way but it also meant you could tax

Everything that came in and everything that went out and this is just a little plaque reminding us of what the the gate that stood ahead look like right uh okay I hope you enjoyed that um if you are new to the Channel Please Subscribe give it a thumbs up um if

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Make it great for everyone it’s just that we set up in such a rush so yes so any questions so with the CH the Museum of childhood I can do that one do you want to do the people’s story and the Museum of Edinburgh cuz I could do videos of

Them as well if you’re fancy oh thanks Tish Tish I don’t think you ever sleep just it’s when I sneak on in Natalie’s turn I see you there and I’m like do you ever sleep oh anyway okay um yeah if you’ve got any questions just leave a comment or something and I’ll

Try and catch it afterwards bye Sweden bye

Walking Tour around the High Street section of Edinburgh’s historic Royal Mile.

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