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The Calton Hill Conservation Trust help protect & maintain our much-loved, long-neglected, Edinburgh park, with its monuments, spectacular views & nature | Please join us & volunteer with us. <https:www.caltonhilltrust.org>
Lots of glass on Chancelot path, south of Ferry Road, near Dalmeny Road. Seems like some glass recycling bins have been rolled down slope #edtravcyc @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social
The Trust have now learnt that the March & Rally on 28 March will not be on the indestructible hard-standing car park, but instead on the destructible grass behind the National Monument. We are concerned. About 5,000 people are expected. We hope for dry weather!
The complete text of the motion that was passed is posted on our website:
caltonhilltrust.org/defibrillato...
From Yorkshire they came
in a whirr and a whizz
of a teleport game
for which yellow high-vis
is rule number one,
so no-one gets lost,
and the coats they all come
at affordable cost
from a specialist shop
in the city of Leeds
called "Costume & Prop
for Theatrical Needs"
School party from Yorkshire on Calton Hill, 27 February 2026
VISITORS: "Why are you all wearing hi-viz?"
"So we don't get lost."
"Where do you come from?"
"Yorkshire. We love it here. We don't want to go home."
"Please come again!"
Edinburgh has a huge graffiti problem lately. Well done working to remove some of it!
Graffiti removal from concrete by Calton Hill Conservation Trust specialist volunteers, 27 February 2026
Our GRAFFITI REMOVAL SPECIALIST VOLUNTEERS have been applying chemicals to tagging left on concrete. Thanks to @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social for supplying the Trust with a graffiti removal kit.
Graffiti on the back gate of Greenside Church, Edinburgh 30 December 2025
Graffiti removed from the back gate of Greenside Church, 27 February 2026
GRAFFITI GONE! Many thanks to our volunteers who today removed the graffiti on the back gate of Greenside Church. Once again it was the same tagger(s), and once again their graffiti is no longer there.
Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) on Regent Walk, Calton Hill, 27 February 2026
RATTUS NORVEGICUS, the common brown rat, found near the portaloos on Regent Walk, Calton Hill.
Pink and yellow sunrise clouds, reflecting in the sea. Silhouettes of buildings on the horizon
From the harbour wall this morning, looking over to Western Harbour and goings on at the renewables hub. @wardie-bay.bsky.social Edinburgh
Next up in the AHSS Strathclyde Group Winter Lecture Series:
Heritage with Purpose: Adaptive Reuse and Community-Centred Design, with Sarah Jane Storrie
🗓️ 19 March 2026
📍 St Andrews West Church & Renfield Centre, Glasgow
⏰️ 7:30 – 9:30pm
🎟️ £6 online/in-person | £2 students: buff.ly/va5EmB8
@caltonhill.bsky.social might be interested in this too!
@believeinscotland.bsky.social The Trust have received no information about this from @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social. Will the rally be on hard standing/car park? Grassed areas on the hill are easily damaged. An erosion emergency was declared last year. 300 sq. metres are fenced off. Please advise.
Archaeology walkover group on Calton Hill, Edinburgh 22 February 2026
Thank you to all who came to the ARCHAEOLOGY WALKOVER on Calton Hill led by Jessica Lowther of Headland Archaeology yesterday (21 Feb 26). The group in the photo are standing where a building was indicated on early 19th century maps.
We are still awaiting an update from @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social about the REPLACEMENT of the PORTALOOS. They were scheduled to go at the end of January. We remain concerned about the units — not just the ugliness but also safety and security. FYI @spurtle.bsky.social @edinburghminute.com
Slightly breezy morning for an archeological walk on Calton Hill with Headland Archaeology & @caltonhill.bsky.social Very interesting session again.
"The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time; [as] we listened ... to [Hutton] unfolding to us ... these wonderful events, we became sensible how much further reason may ... go than imagination can venture to follow". Playfair's description of Hutton at Siccar Point ⚒️🧪
John Playfair was buried in an unmarked grave in the Old Calton Burial Ground, however a plaque was erected to him there in 2011. It would be fitting to celebrate him with a walk from the plaque to the Playfair Monument on the top of the hill.
web.archive.org/web/20130829...
One of the greats and he made Hutton’s work decipherable, which was more than Hutton could manage. Hutton’s discovery of how rock formations formed and behaved was in many ways more insightful than Darwin’s work on evolution, and that was genius.
There is a good biography of John Playfair on Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pl...
John Playfair by Henry Raeburn, National Portrait Gallery, London
Playfair Monument, Calton Hill, 15 November 2024
JOHN PLAYFAIR? Does anyone remember John Playfair? Is anyone interested in John Playfair (1748–1819)? He was a major scientist, mathematician, and professor of natural philosophy and he has his own monument on Calton Hill. The anniversary of his birth is on 10 March.
FYI re planning application 26/00217/ADV @collective-edin.bsky.social @edinburghwh.bsky.social @thecockburn.bsky.social @ntbcc.bsky.social @theahss.bsky.social @edinburghminute.com @edinreporter.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social
The planning application 26/00217/ADV, is now closed for comments, but can be seen on the city Planning Portal. 3/ <https://citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/idoxpa-web/centralDistribution.do?caseType=Application&keyVal=T95XG5EWG7H00>
The Trust compliment the Collective on the attractiveness of the designs & compliance with council safety rules, however some members think there should be a reference to the listed building and Edinburgh's UNESCO World Heritage Site. 2/
Proposed signs for the Collective Gallery on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, 12 February 2026
Collective Gallery SIGNAGE planning application: The Trust are asking for the words CALTON HILL to be added to 7 proposed signs on and around the hill to avoid visitors being confused about where they are — especially as the road by the main entrance is also called 'Calton Hill'. 1/
Monument with portaloos
This used to be a rather lovely view. Now it’s ugly and smelly. Edinburgh @caltonhill.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social
PREHISTORY: "Hundreds of hillforts dotted southern Scotland ... The descriptor ‘hillfort’ is something of a misnomer, for they were communities first and fortresses second ... Holyrood Park ... was once the heart of the local community." David C Weinczock
www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/how-arthur...
Fascinating evening at Lind and Lime distillery finding out more about the challenges the Firth of Forth faces and some of the work going on to address them @mcsuk.bsky.social #RestorationForth @edinburghshoreline.bsky.social
Well done everyone. ⭐️ 👌👏🏻
Edinburgh University Dirty Weekenders volunteers on Calton Hill, 8 February 2026
Rainwater runoff channel cleared by Edinburgh University Dirty Weekenders volunteers on Calton Hill, 8 February 2026
Edinburgh University Dirty Weekenders volunteers on Calton Hill, 8 February 2026
Many thanks to the industrious & fashionable DIRTY WEEKENDERS volunteers (from the university) who have been digging out the old stone rainwater runoff channels (gutters) on Calton Hill today (8 Feb 2026).