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The Story of Leith
by John Russell
This book kindly provided by Ranald McIntyre
The Story of Leith by John Russell

Newhaven On Forth Portal Website

History of Leith

 

To
Thomas Fraser
and to
All the Leith Boys and Girls
whom he used to send on school excursions to visit the historical buildings and monuments of their own district.

Preface

Contents

  1. Leith in Prehistoric and Roman Times

  2. Leith in Early Days

  3. Leith's Early Shipping Trade

  4. Leith's Part with Robert The Bruce

  5. The Logans

  6. The Enmity with Edinburgh: It's Origin

  7. The Enmity with Edinburgh: It's Development

  8. The Overlordship of Edinburgh

  9. The Overlordship of Edinburgh (continued)

  10. St Anthony's: A Medaeval Hospital

  11. The Trade Guilds of Leith

  12. Leith in the Fifteenth Century

  13. Our Parish Churches: South Leith

  14. Our Parish Churches: North Leith

  15. Leith Shipping in Early Stuart Times

  16. Leith's Sea-Dogs: Sir Andrew Wood

  17. Leith's Sea-Dogs: The Fighting Bartons

  18. The Rise of Newhaven

  19. Newhaven: A Fishing Village

  20. Leith in Later Stuart Times

  21. The Burning of Leith

  22. The Siege of Leith

  23. Queen's Men versus King's Men

  24. Leith after The Union of the Crowns

  25. Plague and Pestilence

  26. Cromwell's Ironsides in Leith

  27. Leith in the "Killing Times"

  28. Leith Changing to Modern Times

  29. The Troubles that Followed the Union

  30. Progress begins in Leith

  31. The Commerce of Leith

  32. The Industries of Leith

  33. How Leith was Governed
    Leith's Honourable Record in the Great War

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