The Edinburgh Reporter March 2019

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Charity auction of
designer wedding dresses
Edinburgh Collected
EDINBURGH Collected is an online community photo archive managed by Edinburgh Libraries.
You can add your own photos to help preserve the city's history for future generations. This is a good way
for organisations to preserve their own archives in scrapbooks online.
This is a photograph uploaded by 'CV' of Charlie Taylor, with his wife and two sons, being presented with a
TV (black and white!) won in a Nescafé prize draw in the Cash & Carry in Slateford in 1970. Mr Taylor was
owner of James Thomson & Sons Ltd
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All welcome at The Positive Future lunch group
THIS is a small friendly group
of people over 60 that meets at
Priestfield Parish Church on
Dalkeith Road.
Nila Joshi from the group
explained : "We provide a three
course, freshly cooked, traditional
South Asian lunch for
our members. The lunch club
provides the service to people
One of the members recently celebrated her 80th birthday
living in the Southside of
Edinburgh who are disadvantaged
through isolation, age, ethnicity
and range of other barriers.
"We work with isolated senior
citizens from South Asian
communities, but the Positive
Future lunch group is open
to anyone living in the city of
Edinburgh.
"We also organise day trips to
local places of interest, and in
summer months we organise
short woodland walks as well.
"In addition, we offer
gentle exercise, health talks
and speakers from other professional
bodies to the group.”
The group meets every Monday
from 12 noon - 2.30 pm at
Priestfield Parish Church.
Dresses like this one by Sassi Holford are up for auction
EDINBURGH bridal boutique, clothes and interview training.
Rachel Scott Couture will
Many of the dresses due to go
sell off more than 20 couture under the hammer will have
wedding dresses and will donate no reserve, allowing bidders
all proceeds to Smart Works to maybe snap up their dream
Edinburgh.
designer dress at a fraction of the
The Duchess of Sussex is patron original price.
of the charity which helps to The event will take place on
support women return to the Thursday 14 March 2019 at The
workplace by providing styling Rachel Scott Couture boutique on
advice, high-quality interview Dundas Street.
International Women’s Day
Heroic Women of The Scottish Hospitals
SURGEONS’ HALL Museums
will be celebrating International
Women’s Day by staging a brand
new play written by Christopher
Silver.
The play was inspired by
material held in the Royal College
of Surgeons of Edinburgh’s
Archives.
It draws on journal entries
and letters written by women
deployed to the Balkans during
WWI. It explores the seldom-told
story of a group of pioneering
women who defied the military
and medical establishment of
their day.
‘Go Home and Sit Still’ is a
moving and timely interpretation
of a remarkable humanitarian
journey, undertaken at great
personal risk by thousands of
female members of the Scottish
Women’s Hospitals who were
determined not to stay at home.
The hospitals were formed by
Elsie Inglis after her offer of a
ready-made medical unit staffed
by women was turned down by
the British War Office with the
response ‘My good lady, go home
and sit still.’ After the French
government accepted her offer,
14 units of women volunteers
left the safety of their homes to
help on the front line of allied
countries during the First World
War.
7-9 March 2019
Surgeons’ Hall Museums
Tickets from £10 on Eventbrite.
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