#Dumbiedykes

[embraphotos]

Viewcraig Street, EH8

#Viewcraig Street #Dumbiedykes #Edinburgh #Scotland #Unitedm Kingdom #Street Photography #Photographers on Tumblr #2022

[lascitasdelashoras]

Kenneth Melvin - Dumbiedykes, Edinburgh

#kenneth melvin #edimburgo #escocia

[dykehaus]

good evening, dumbiedykes <3

[rifdahazzura]

Hi, again

I lost count of how many blogs I've made throughout my life. My last blog was the one I created with my best friend, you can read our thoughts here eggtelur.blogspot.com lol.

When I was in elementary school, my dad encouraged me to create a blog. I can't remember what he exactly said, but I'm sure he told me that writing is a good activity. We can pour our minds, our thought, our feeling, and we can track and see how we, as human beings, grow year by year.

Even now, I totally agree with that. I always find writing helps me express the feeling that I sometimes can't show. It calms me, it heals me.

Right now, at 10 pm, I'm sitting inside a place I dearly called my new home. It's one of the flats at Dumbiedykes Road, Edinburgh, the United Kingdom. I'm moving here for a one-year master's program, which, in fact.. I still can't believe everything that happened in the last one month.

Hence, to make sense of everything that I go through, I believe writing will help me, just like usual. On my 37th day living here, I decided to create a new blog.

Living abroad for one year is not a short time. I want to record the experiences; ups and downs, bittersweet, and challenges; also the people I meet. If there is one thing I regret I didn't do during my exchange student time (in 2019), it is that I didn't write. So, as Allah give me an opportunity to go to another living abroad experience, I want to keep this all in this blog <3

note: of course this blog hopefully will also the place I share my thoughts other than living abroad

with love,

Rif

[gacougnol]

Kenneth Melvin Dumbiedykes, Edinburgh 1960

#kenneth melvin #1960

[merlinisnotover]

DUMBIEDYKES

#hp #harry potter

[bryony-rebb]

Walking home and I came across a couple of tourists posing with a street sign. What’s so photogenic about Dumbiedykes Road? I wondered to myself, before it finally dawned on me that they were covering the ie. Dumb Dykes Road does sound like a lot more fun.

[scotianostra]

Edinburgh street names Part two.

Dumbiedykes

Dumbiedykes Road off Holyrood Road, this mainly residential street was named after a school for the deaf and dumb which once sat on the boundaries of Holyrood Park.

In 1764 a Lanarkshire-born teacher, Thomas Braidwood, founded a school for the deaf to the north-east of St Leonard Street. Formally known as ‘The Academy for the Deaf and Dumb’, the school was the first of its kind in Britain and Braidwood became famous for pioneering new methods of sign language. Following Braidwood’s relocation to England, the school closed, but the building’s nickname, ‘Dumbie House’, endured. From around 1820 onwards the road running past Dumbie House from St Leonard’s to the Canongate began to appear on maps as ‘Dumbie Dykes’ – the latter part of this name referring to the walls which bordered the King’s Park. Within a few short years Dumbiedykes would be used exclusively to describe the entire district. Braidwood’s Dumbie House was later renamed Craigside House, in reference to the nearby crags which towered over it. The house was demolished in 1939.

Originally tenements the Dumbiedykes estate is now maisonettes and high rise council properties, the peripherals are parts of Edinburgh University accommodation. Ian Rankin called the rebuilt tenement area "Greenfield" in his novel Dead Souls. The pics are from 1959 and how the estate looks now from The Radical Road on Arthur's Seat

Princes Street

The busy shopping street was originally intended to be named after the city’s patron saint, Giles. However, King George III rejected the name, St Giles being also the patron saint of lepers and the name of a notorious 'rookery' of slums in London. The street is named after King George's two eldest sons, the Prince George, Duke of Rothesay and the Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany..

Originally all buildings had the same format: set back from the street with stairs down to a basement and stairs up to the ground floor with two storeys and an attic above. Of this original format only one such property remains in its original form. Through the 19th century most buildings were redeveloped at a larger scale and the street evolved from residential to mainly retail uses.

Many of the original houses still exist, although they are now often heavily disguised. Look out for number 95 Princes Street, until recently, Hector Russell’s kilt shop, the last surviving completely intact Georgian town house. Here you can still see the basic design of a building with three storeys and sunken basement, as laid down in the regulations in 1781.

The pics are of Princes street from Old & New Edinburgh published in 1890 and Hectors at 95 Princes street

Advocates Close.

This steep and narrow close, believed to date from 1544, offers attractive views to Princes Street and the Scott Monument.

John Scougall, painter to William III and Queen Mary, was an early resident here, as was Bishop Bothwell (Abbot of Holyrood House 1570). Advocate's Close was formerly Home's Close, Henry Home of Kaims,Senator of the College of Justice, possessed a house here, Home was an Advocate his most famous case was sitting on the panel of judges in the Joseph Knight case which ruled that there could be no slavery in Scotland. Knight was a man born in Africa and sold as a slave in Jamaica to John Wedderburn of Ballendean who brought him to Scotland. Knight had heard of a case in England that outlawed owning of slaves, he demanded wages from his owner, John Wedderburn of Ballendean, and ran away when this was refused. When Wedderburn had him arrested, Knight brought a case before the justices of the peace court in Perth.

When the justices of the peace found in favour of Wedderburn, Knight appealed to the Sheriff of Perth, who found that “the state of slavery is not recognised by the laws of this kingdom, and is inconsistent with the principles thereof: That the regulations in Jamaica, concerning slaves, do not extend to this kingdom”.

In 1777 Wedderburn in turn appealed to the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Scotland’s supreme civil court, arguing that Knight still owed perpetual service, in the same manner as an indentured servant or an apprenticed artisan. The case was important enough that it was given a full panel of judges including Lord Kames the important legal and social historian. The case for Knight was helped in preparation by James Boswell and Samuel Johnson. Their argument was that ‘no man is by nature the property of another”.

Since there was no proof that Knight had given up his natural freedom, he should be set free.

Lord Kames said “we sit here to enforce right not to enforce wrong” and the court emphatically rejected Wedderburn’s appeal, ruling that “the dominion assumed over this Negro, under the law of Jamaica, being unjust, could not be supported in this country to any extent: That, therefore, the defender had no right to the Negros’ service for any space of time, nor to send him out of the country against his consent: That the Negro was likewise protected under the act 1701, from being sent out of the country against his consent.”

In effect, slavery was not recognised by Scots law and runaway slaves (or perpetual servants) could be protected by the courts, if they wished to leave domestic service or were resisting attempts to return them to slavery in the colonies.

The close however got it’s new name from Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees, the last Advocate of Scotland in office during the time of the Restoration, Revolution and Union. The Home story is much more interesting though, in my humble opinion. 

Advocate's Close leads to what is now Cockburn Street, as seen in the second picture.

#Scotland #Edinburgh #history

[fire-bear]

So I just started reading the Scots version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. There are a lot of words I need to figure out from context since they're using words people don't tend to use any more? Kinda like he got an English to Scots dictionary and looked up every word.

Also. Dumbledore is now Dumbiedykes which is just ridiculous and hilarious.

#things #harry potter

[embraphotos]

Holyrood Road, EH8

#Holyrood Road #Dumbiedykes #Edinburgh #Scotland #Unitedm Kingdom #Street Photography #Photographers on Tumblr #2022

[ghostie111]

Look at this... 👀

Look at this... 👀 https://pin.it/6M9QHs0

Dumbiedykes by Holyrood park. Demolished new homes there now.

[gacougnol]

Kenneth Melvin Dumbiedykes, Edinburgh 1950

#kenneth melvin #1950

[kayjay63]

Coronavirus: ‘We feel forgotten about here’ Agnes Logan says she has been watching Dumbiedykes deteriorate for decades. The 82-year-old moved into the compact strips of council-built flats in the shadow of Arthur's Seat in 1970. The retired school cleaner thought the final straw had been the remova… Read More

[pixee]

dumbledore translated to scots is dumbiedykes apparently uhhhh

#what

[talesofanavidreader]

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘢 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥. ⁣⁣ 𝘔𝘳. 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘳𝘴. 𝘋𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘺, 𝘰 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘵 𝘓𝘰𝘢𝘯, 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘸𝘭 𝘺𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘥 𝘫𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘪 𝘰𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘰 𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘥, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘫𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯𝘢𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘶𝘥 𝘸𝘪 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘯.”⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Have you ever had the delight of reading the Scots translation of Harry Potter? I picked it up when I was in Scotland last year and I don’t think I have ever laughed so hard! My friend and I both bought a copy! It’s nearly unintelligible and it never fails to make me laugh! ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ My favorite translations are: ⁣⁣ Dumbledore = Dumbiedykes ⁣⁣ Quidditch = Bizzumbaw ⁣⁣ The Sorting Hat = Blithering Bonnet ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ #harrypotter #scotland #harrypotterscotsedition #scots #jkrowling #talesofanavidreader #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagramfeature #booksofinstagram #bookishfeature #bookishfeatures #readingstyles #mybookfeatures #bookblog #bookreviewer #booknerd #booklover #bookworm https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw7s3J7nTTF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1cf68zktqyupw

#harrypotter #scotland #harrypotterscotsedition #scots #jkrowling #talesofanavidreader #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagramfeature #booksofinstagram #bookishfeature #bookishfeatures #readingstyles #mybookfeatures #bookblog #bookreviewer #booknerd #booklover #bookworm