Beggars Bush: A Perambulation through the Disciplines of History, Geography, Archaeology, Literature, Philology, Natural History, Botany, Biography & Beggary

East Lothian, Scotland Beggars Bush 1842

Beggars Bush House is now at 53 Haddington Road, EU21 7SZ, and all references appear to be to a house. The location of that is close to the boundary between Edinburgh & Haddingtonshire. An entry in the Edinburgh & Leith County Directory 1842 gives Andrew Elley, gardener at Beggars Bush. The name is not shown on the 1854 or 1898 OS Maps or Wm. Roy’s Military Survey of Scotland 1747-55. The name is referred to in The East Lothian (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1998, Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 2804 (S. 164) defining the boundary of Ward 5 Musselburgh East. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted: April 25th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: , , | 3 Comments »

Thomas Trotter The Beggar’s Bush 1829

The poem is from a collection Sea Weeds: Poems Written on Various Occasions, Chiefly During a Naval Life published for Thomas Trotter (1760-1830) who at that time was a surgeon practicing in Newcastle. The text says no more about the “maniac” who is supposed to have cut it down. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted: April 24th, 2011 | Filed under: Writers | Tags: , | No Comments »