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LAST week, I spent a few days in Edinburgh’s New Town. Taking a stroll in the evening, when windows were lit and the Firth of Forth beckoned in the dusk, it was possible to imagine you were in one of the most beautiful cities on earth. The elegance of the tenements and crescents, the grandeur of an immaculately planned, artistically peerless quarter, is still almost as breath-taking today as when it was conceived two and a half centuries ago. Since then, of course, the world has moved on, and architecture with it. Nowhere is this more glaringly apparent than in the capital.

And, of course, there was the fact that few murders are committed by men with no arms. But in July 1919, and the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh would be shown a detailed ‘CSI’ style plan of the crime scene – even down to his victim’s blood stains. Drawn by James Robertson of the office of the Burgh Engineer of Edinburgh, it showed fine detail of the one-roomed lodgings on the second floor of 88 Candlemaker Row in Edinburgh’s Old Town. The 102-year-old crime scene plan is just one of several unearthed by John Lowrey, Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at Edinburg...

The ghost of an old man is said to haunt Ramms Lane, Necton. - Credit: DENISE BRADLEY/Archant2021 The visits from the Travellers with their beautifully-painted caravans and treasures for sale were always eagerly awaited by the villagers of Holme Hale in Breckland. Two or three times a year, Holme Hale would welcome their regular visitors who would stay for a short while before moving on to the next village. But on one occasion, they left someone – or something – behind. A ghost. Author Alec Hunt has written a beautiful account of life in Holme Hale throughout the ages, and one of his tal...