Jon Walken @JWalken

Serpentine Street Citizen, Architectural Elevation Enthusiast, Resting Traveller Edinburgh Joined June 2020

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Jon Walken @JWalken

2 years ago

@john_auldtoon @jomowat Couldn’t believe it when I saw this go up. Obnoxious, ugly, selfish. Glad you’ve flagged it John.

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2 years ago

@EdinburghDetour @theSpurtle It was a really enjoyable tour, especially having read the McLevy stories/memoirs.

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2 years ago

@theSpurtle @EdinburghDetour From memory I think James McLevy's writings talk about the area as being known as Little Ireland in the 1840s

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@theSpurtle There's a few along the Cowgate. I first noticed them after lockdown when I went on an @EdinburghDetour walk, which covered James Connolly and the history of Little Ireland. There's a plaque to Connolly and one of these under George IV Bridge.

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2 years ago

@bbcdoctorwho miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:…

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2 years ago

@tenacrefilms Arrived yesterday and read cover to cover this morning. Full of detail and delight - such a joy, thank you to all who contributed.

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Jon Walken @JWalken

3 years ago

@CandysEyes @NDSreview No problem at all, glad you're sorted, hope you have a great week!

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3 years ago

@CandysEyes @NDSreview No problem!

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Jon Walken @JWalken

3 years ago

@CandysEyes Hi - saw your tweet retweeted by @NDSreview. I live central Edinburgh and have an old iPhone I can lend you if you still need it. Hope you're OK, the city can be overwhelming. Best wishes.

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3 years ago

@kittensnotkids @NomeDaBarbarian @Nerdsavant gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-ph…

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Jon Walken @JWalken

4 years ago

@lnr_models Hi - would love one of these A how can I order direct?

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Jon Walken @JWalken

4 years ago

@VictorianLondon George Gutch's plans for Tyburnia also included a Polygon, I remember, but I don't think it was the same design - not sure if St John's church replaced it.

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Jon Walken @JWalken

4 years ago

@ThelmaScotland @cocteautriplets Ah - here it is movingimage.nls.uk/film/6224

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Jon Walken @JWalken

4 years ago

@ThelmaScotland @cocteautriplets I can’t find a live link right now, but Margaret Tait’s short film Rose Street features this corner and I think the exterior and interior of this pub. It’s a lovely piece, with kids playing down the side of the pub, deliverymen and window shoppers.

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Jon Walken @JWalken

4 years ago

@sos_street @Edinburgh_CC Yes. As the weather warms, I'm bracing for the 3am wake-ups and reasoning with them out of the window.

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Jon Walken @JWalken

4 years ago

@sos_street @Edinburgh_CC I agree. I wish the Council had taken a different decision. The rejoicing of the Edinburgh business accounts when the no-enforcement policy was announced made me quite queasy. No sense of business responsibility for the downsides here, no neighbourliness.

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Jon Walken @JWalken

4 years ago

@Edinburgh_CC @sos_street Council cld put a CCTV camera on the back of their own building to monitor it if they wanted. Wireless one's about 50 quid. I'm being glib, but it's surely possible to find some way of enforcing their own policies and traffic law. They've got the bollards, let's see them use them

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Jon Walken @JWalken

4 years ago

@Edinburgh_CC This is precise area @sos_street posts daily, and this area only. Difficult not to see this as trying to make visible problem go away w/o creating what is actually needed while eating platforms persist - an actual loading bay, w/lorries not let onto the street unless it's free.

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Jon Walken @JWalken

4 years ago

@EdinReporter @sos_street Yes, @sos_street has been tireless on this and these measures would not have been taken without their constant pressure. But these measures do not solve the problem - at best they just move it to a part of the street where the Council won't get as much grief. The bare minimum.

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Jon Walken @JWalken

4 years ago

@Edinburgh_CC Businesses need to recover. But it's really difficult not to look out of my window every day and see contempt for people who live here, and those who visit and want to walk, use pushchairs or wheelchairs on the pavement. Why are these businesses content to be such bad neighbours?

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Jon Walken @JWalken

4 years ago

@Edinburgh_CC This has been a baffling failure of planning and common sense. Roadway annexed by businesses that also need deliveries to service them, but no thought at all about how that happens. People eat on the road, lorries park on the pavement. Same businesses taking priority twice over.