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Diarmid Mogg
@diarmidmogg.bsky.social
Mostly Edinburgh history, tenement life stories and the like. Current project - Tenement Town; Previous project - Small Town Noir.
18 Rankeillor Street, Edinburgh—built around 1820. Eight flats in the stair, over two ground-floor flats. Notable former residents include:
October 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Every so often houses come up in the Edinburgh property listings for a charming-sounding place called "Mount Alvernia". This development was once a monastery, but it had no monks; it was home to nuns. Twice the Catholic Church tried to displace these Sisters by legal means and twice it failed 🧵▶️
August 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I saw this today—a great bit of theatre. Stories of Edinburgh lives, performed by a great actor. On until the 23rd. If you like my tenement stories, you’ll love this. Recommended!
EDINBURGH FRINGE 2025

My critically acclaimed, Bright Spark Award nominated, 2024 sell out, debut play Athens of The North will return in 2025 for a full run @scotstorycentre.bsky.social on the High Street
#EdFringe

scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:61...

1st -23rd August
August 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
30 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh—a corner tenement over one ground-floor shop, built in 1896, with four floors of “superior houses of 3 and 4 apartments”.
July 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
13 Blackfriars St, Edinburgh—currently eight flats (after modernisation); probably more in the 1870s, when it was built as working-class housing to replace the "rotten, ruinous old buildings" and the "congeries of dark and wretched lanes" of the area.

Former residents include:
April 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Today’s winds in Edinburgh are bad, but they’re not as strong as the 90mph winds that hit the city in January 1868. In the midst of awful stories of fatalities and wrecked buildings, The Scotsman printed this report of the travails of a distinguished lawyer on his journey home:
January 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
35 Watson Crescent, Edinburgh—16 flats in a tenement built along the Union Canal in 1898 for workers in the nearby foundries, breweries and rubber factories.

Former residents include:
January 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
27 East Preston Street, Edinburgh. An early 1880s tenement, eight flats in the stair, over two main-door flats. Former residents include:
December 10, 2024 at 10:15 AM
31 Windsor Street/36 Montgomery Street—a corner tenement built around 1825 to a design by William Henry Playfair. The eight flats in the stair sit above two main-door flats and two basement flats—one of each on Montgomery Street and Windsor Street.

Former residents include:
November 14, 2023 at 2:34 PM
7 Cargil Terrace—built in 1901 on a quiet side street in the north of Edinburgh that is named after some bygone landowner who left no other trace in the historical record. Six flats in the stair, over two ground-floor flats.

Former residents include:
November 6, 2023 at 7:36 PM
248 Leith Walk—three storeys of flats over three shops. Built in 1902 as an investment by the owners of the nearby Victoria India Rubber Works.

Former residents include:
October 11, 2023 at 8:30 PM
28 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, built in 1859 at the same time as its neighbour, the Martyr’s Reformed Presbyterian church (now the Frankenstein pub), probably as a source of feuing income for the church’s maintenance.
Former residents include:
September 26, 2023 at 4:27 PM