Local Parks are Engines of Wellbeing and Small Business

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“We propose to have at the south west corner of the ground … wherever … in summer … model yachts might unfurl their sails and on which in winter, skaters might have the opportunity of indulging in their favourite pastime with safety.”

That was an extract given from a speech given by Chairman James Robertson, Convenor of the Edinburgh Parks Committee, at the official opening ceremony of the Inverleith Pond in 1891. He was writing in The Scotsman.

Many nostalgically look at that period of British history.