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| Keywords: Easter Road between Edinburgh and Leith in the 18th century.jpg en Easter Road is described as the old Coach road to Leith on a map of 1825 by James Kyle superintendant of military Roads The church in the distance is South Leith Parish Church and there appears to be a glass bottle kiln just to the right of the ship moored in Leith Roads In 1763 ”There were two stage-coaches with three horses a coachman and postillion to each coach which went to the port of Leith from Edinburgh a mile and a half distant every hour from eight in the morning till eight at night and consumed a full hour upon the road In 1783 ”There were five or six stagecoaches to Leith every half-hour which ran it in fifteen minutes from a letter by the publisher William Creech to Sir John Sinclair The Statistical Account of Scotland 1791-99 2011-11-25 Scanned from J Russell The Story Of Leith Nelson 1922 Unknown after a sketch by Paul Sandby 1731-1809 PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Easter Road Edinburgh | ||||
