Talk Porty ~ Portobello

Read about the mural in Towerbank School and I too remember it well. It was designed and painted by Miss Hilary Wilson, and unveiled on 26/11/1947 by Stanley Cursiter RSA, an artist who was then Director of the National Galleries of Scotland, and a local resident at Brunstane House. Two photos of th...

Hi Brian, Just joined the forum, and can now offer this (sketchy) information. There was indeed a Woodville House, a three-storeyed building on that site. It wasn't shown on the Sutter map of 1856, but did appear on an Estate Plan of Easter Duddingston of 1879. It was occupied in the 1880s by Mrs El...