Friday 10 February 2012

Day 41: Milestones outside the Churchill Theatre, Edinburgh


The carved circles represent people, events and areas:  
      
South milestone, facing Morningside Road                             North milestone, facing Morningside Road      

 (reading top to bottom of pillar):                                            

(1) Chi-Rho, the universal Christian symbol                           (1) The initials M S for Muriel Spark (author)

                                                                                                               / a spark plug / golf tee, ball & club heads
                                                                                                         (golf is said to have first been played on Bruntsfield Links) 
                                                                                                              
(2) The proscenium of the Church Hill Theatre                       (2) Mathematical symbols re John Napier 1550-1617
                                                                                                                 inventor of logarithms

(3) Piano keys and a kipper (Morningside life,                        (3) A Bee - local industry
     apparently!)

(4) a shuttle and thread re linen weavers of                             (4) A Mouse and the Internet
      Tipperlinn


 


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