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1904. First edition. 58pp., a frontispiece and 7 black and white plates. The site of the United Free Church in Dalmeny Street, Leith, was secured for use as a church by the United Presbyterian Church in March 1879, to serve the rapidly growing population in the new tenements around Leith Walk who were not well served by existing U.P. Churches. A temporary church hall was built in that year and a congregation established from existing U.P. members in the neighbourhood. It took until June 1881 to secure a minister, George B. Carr from the parish of Tranent. The sandstone Gothic Revival building was built for the congregation and was opened on October 6, 1882 to a design adapted by Archibald Thomson from an original version by Sloan & Balderston in 1822. At this time, Dalmeny Street was known as Colston Street, after James Colston, Esq., the treasurer of the Corporation of the City of Edinburgh. With the merger of the United Presbyterian and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, the Church passed to the United Free Church of Scotland. The majority of the United Free Church merged with the established Church of Scotland in 1929, and Dalmeny Street followed after this. The Church was vacated by 1950, with the congregation merging with nearby Pilrig to form Pilrig and Dalmeny, now Pilrig St. Paul's. The site is now that of one of the few Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish churches in Scotland. This book was published to mark the semi-jubilee of the Dalmeny Streety United Free Church. The book is bound in the original brown cloth covered boards with gold titling on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with sopme shelf wear and light soiling on the boards. The spine ends are lightly bumped with some fraying to the cloth and the spine and adjacent parts of the boards are faded. The contents are tight and clean with some soiling on the fore margin of page 15. There is some browning and light foxing to the endpapers but no inscription. excellent condition with bumping to the spine ends. The contents are tight and clean with the following inscription written in pencil by the illustrator on the half-title page: "With love top David from Kirill - 13/x 1978." There is a small name label of the Durham poet David Burnett on the front fixed endpaper. The unclipped dustwrapper is very good with light shelf wear and bumping to the top of the spine. Seller Inventory # gLeith01
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