Daly's Corner Quiz
Original & Best
13th June 2025
Quiz Number 182
A. What is the connection between the pictures above and below this question?
B. When did James Galbraith Forsyth sell his Dolphin Inn?
C. Where was the Mechanics Room on oor once proud High Street?
D. Which family of weavers fae Pinkerton had the Tenement at 1 High Street, next to Reid’s Tenement/Close (now Logan’s Close)?
E. Why is Bruntsfield Crescent incorrectly named?
Daly's Corner Quiz
Original & Best
13th May 2025
Quiz Number 181
A. What were the following called/named pre-1870?
i) Custom House Square.
a) Shore.
ii) Browns Close in the NE High Street.
a)Thomsons Close.
B. When was The Keyhole, inshore from Boys Buss and the Falls Tarry Ship Quarry, created?
a) Also known as Robert Fall's Passage/Tunnel or the Wishing Tunnel it was established in the 1760s.
C. Where were the Heatly golfing brothers, who made it big over the pond, born in oor Oblong Square?
a) Bruce and his brother Jock were born in an upstairs flat at 33 High Street no more than a few steps above their father Peter's premises.
D. Which family ran a Confectioners at 35 High Street prior to C and C Main who had their West End Cafe there?
a) Cruikshank's.
E. Who planted, over 150 years ago, a Himalayan Cedar amongst Lochend’s ruins?
a) It is not known for certain but in view of the fact that Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s son, planted the same in 1859 at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh it is possible that he or his mother or both could have planted the Cedar at Lochend.