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The Elephant House Cafe where JK Rowling penned her first Harry Potter novel, on Edinburgh’s George IV Bridge, after a fire broke out in the adjacent Patisserie Valerie (Jane Barlow/PA)
The Elephant House cafe was close to the source of a major fire in one of Edinburgh's main thoroughfares. 'Harry Potter café' to reopen three years after Edinburgh's George IV Bridge fire Skip to ...
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The alarm was raised at approximately 6:20 AM by a cleaner at the next door Elephant House café, who detected smoke. [7] Nine fire engines and two ladder vehicles attended the fire. Apartments above were evacuated, and Candlemaker Row and Chambers Street were both closed. [8] The Oz Bar in Candlemaker Row was one of the businesses heavily ...
Rowling bought Killiechassie House and its estate in Perthshire, Scotland, [174] and on 26 December 2001, the couple had a small, private wedding there, officiated by an Episcopalian priest who travelled from Edinburgh. [5] Their son, David Gordon Rowling Murray, was born in 2003, [175] and their daughter Mackenzie Jean Rowling Murray in 2005 ...
By the 1950s it was in use as a venue in the early years of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. [5] It finally closed for theatrical use in 1966, and was then converted into a bingo hall. [4] In the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was a nightclub known as the White Elephant, before changing its name in the late 1970s to Valentino's. [6]
The Glasshouse Hotel is part of the Omni Centre complex, and opened in June 2003 [10] It is located on Greenside Place, next to the Playhouse Theatre, on the edge of Edinburgh's New Town. It was built on the site of Lady Glenorchy's Free Church incorporating the façade of the church as its frontage.
Cafe Royal Bar. He was born at 13 Richmond Place [1] in south Edinburgh the son of Robert Paterson (1790–1846), a builder, architect and surveyor in Edinburgh, and his wife Margaret (1789–1867). [2] In 1839/40 he was articled to George Beattie (born 1810) (father of William Hamilton Beattie builders and wood merchants at 23 Bread Street.