Landmark
Stockbridge
Riverside village neighbourhood of Georgian terraces, artisan cottages, and a Sunday market by the Water of Leith.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Stockbridge in Edinburgh centers on a ten-year-old boy who arrived at the school on this street in November 1841, dressed by his father in homemade country clothes that made the other boys mock him and nickname him Dafty. It follows his rough first days there and what changed within four years, when the boy nobody thought much of won the school's mathematics medal. Listen for how the ordinary street gives no hint of who he later became.
This audio guide was created using AI.