Still of a heist movie about stealing jewels from the Balmoral, featuring Harold Lloyd dangling from the massive clock face (the mechanism was slightly damaged during filming, which is why it's run 3 minutes fast ever since).

As the letter-writer, I feel both emotions simultaneously :)

I appreciate these measured and detailed initial comments.

Yes!

Yes, the GWW collection has some amazingly detailed photos of Edinburgh. This one of Leith from Calton Hill is one of my favourites. I think it's from the 1870s - there is industry where there are now tenements.
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Here are some of what looks like the same type of blind in on the Liberal Club ln Princes St, from the George Washington Wilson Collection. I've not found any photos of Queen St. abdn.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/Univers...

Fascinating! I work on the 8th floor of Appleton Tower, and used to work in the Forum, probably just off the right of this picture.

It had the obligatory and brilliant '60s/'70s concrete frieze, this one by a Scottish artist, as it turns out www.flickr.com/photos/rosse...
Happily the frieze has been saved.

Growing up in the late '70s and '80s I don't recall so many of that sort of Ladybird book. For me the "modern" world was places like the Thompson centre in Burnley (now demolished)
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which I associate with swimming in the lovely new-ish pool, and concerts.

Ha! This is how you were imprinted :)