• (Redirected from Burgh of Leith). This article is about Leith, Scotland. ... English and Scots charged the walls of Leith with ladders that turned out to be too short.
  • Find out information about Burgh of Leith. Leith , former town, Edinburgh, SE Scotland, on the south shore of the Firth of Forth.
  • Some of the older collections came to the museum from Starbank House while others were transferred from Leith Museum Trust in 2003. ... The burgh of Leith.
  • A century has now passed since the burgh of Leith was amalgamated with Edinburgh, but there are still plenty of clues that the port was once independent of the...
  • The burgh of Leith was for many years separated from Edinburgh itself and to this day retains it’s own identity.
  • Encouraged and aided by their young queen, whom they expected to raise their town to the status of a free burgh, the people of Leith in 1564 built a new tolbooth...
  • Leith became a Parliamentary Burgh in 1833 (that is, a burgh upon which an elected town council was imposed by Parliament in their reforms of 1832-33)...
  • As well as the exhibition, a book called The Past Lives of Leith explores what lif would have been like in the burgh 600 years ago.
  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Title: Report on the Burgh of Leith [contd.] Imprint: [London : House of Commons, 1832]. Shelfmark: Map Library.
  • Leith Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918.
  • Children of Alexander Peter Willoughby Leith, 7th Lord Burgh and Anita Lorna Eldridge. Alexander Gregory Disney Leith, 8th Lord Burgh+ b. 16 Mar 1958.
  • Leith Burgh. This page summarises records created by this Organisation. ... 1639-1920. Places: Leith, Midlothian. Functions, occupations and activities
  • Unfortunately, the only known Leith Burgh Police personnel records are those of officers who transferred to Edinburgh City Police on 2 November 1920.