Dirty Dick's

[twm]

Yes, we have visited the Necropolis, too, and it is indeed a spooky place. It has featured in TV programmes such as "Taggart". And there are some spooky places in Edinburgh, too.

[Jules]

This is the tomb of the writter of "Wee Willy Winky"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atmilinko/6234927676/in/set-72157627747190367/lightbox/

And even these pictures has nothing to do with What It Is lyrics, I like them very much and maybe you would like them too

http://www.flickr.com/photos/atmilinko/6234859778/in/set-72157627747190367

http://www.flickr.com/photos/atmilinko/6234937676/in/set-72157627747190367

[superval99]

Thank you, jbaent!    Did you go inside the cathedral?    We did and it was so dark and spooky that I had shivers and goosebumps!   Then we went into the crypt below the cathedral, where there are some beautiful tapestries and also the tomb of St Mungo and it didn't seem so spooky.   

[sweetsurrender]

A photo I took in September of the building that served as the toll gate from the song:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davids_leicas/9686423053/in/set-72157633711237974

There is a tavern within the building too!  The Tolbooth Tavern is part of the original Canongate Tolbooth.  "But the taverns are warm in town..."

Thanks sooo much.  Beautiful pictures.   

Imagine the cruelty they treated prisoners  those days.   Now," what's the story of Ghost of Dirty Dick's still in search of Little Nell ? "

[sweetsurrender]

jbaent, love the pictures of the spider web.  Thanks for sharing the pictures.

[dmg]

A photo I took in September of the building that served as the toll gate from the song:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davids_leicas/9686423053/in/set-72157633711237974

There is a tavern within the building too!  The Tolbooth Tavern is part of the original Canongate Tolbooth.  "But the taverns are warm in town..."

Thanks sooo much.  Beautiful pictures.   

Imagine the cruelty they treated prisoners  those days.   Now," what's the story of Ghost of Dirty Dick's still in search of Little Nell ? "

To be honest, I'm not sure.  I'm led to believe they were famous ghosts and that Edinburgh is the most haunted city in the UK.  There are guided Edinburgh ghost tours led by people dressed in Victorian dress (or maybe Georgian, I'm no expert on that either) so perhaps I should go on one some time!

P.S.  Even The Playhouse where Mark plays is supposed to be haunted by a ghost called Albert!

[Silvertown]

A photo I took in September of the building that served as the toll gate from the song:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davids_leicas/9686423053/in/set-72157633711237974

There is a tavern within the building too!  The Tolbooth Tavern is part of the original Canongate Tolbooth.  "But the taverns are warm in town..."

Thanks again. Good pics!

[dmg]

Imagine the cruelty they treated prisoners  those days.  
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Yes, there are also stories of torture to prisoners in the cells of the building and one prisoner being scared to death!

[stormbreaker]

Pics have the usual high dmg standard I would say. Weren't Little Nell and Dirty Dick not characters from Charles Dickens novels?

I always interpreted that line the way that he couldn't stand it alone in the hotel room, where there still is the book (that he chose for his travel compagnon) that he had stopped reading. When coming back after his walk, back to the lonely hotel room, the book is still open at the same page, where stopped reading, the lines where Dirty Dick was still in search of little Nell (both from the novel The Old Curiousity Shop, more than 700 pages in the Teutonian translation, called  Der Rarit

[sweetsurrender]

Pics have the usual high dmg standard I would say. Weren't Little Nell and Dirty Dick not characters from Charles Dickens novels?

I always interpreted that line the way that he couldn't stand it alone in the hotel room, where there still is the book (that he chose for his travel compagnon) that he had stopped reading. When coming back after his walk, back to the lonely hotel room, the book is still open at the same page, where stopped reading, the lines where Dirty Dick was still in search of little Nell (both from the novel The Old Curiousity Shop, more than 700 pages in the Teutonian translation, called  Der Rarit