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I've found blipping makes you notice things that have been there for years but you've never really seen them before.

Waiting for a friend at the end of Drummond Street I noticed this plaque, which I must have walked past hundreds of times but never taken note of before. It got me to wondering why it was there of all places? I don't know much about Robert Louis Stevenson but I know he lived in Edinburgh, he had a house in the New Town which I've visited and his family were absolutely stupendous lighthouse engineers.

It turns out that plaque is there because of the pub. From good ol' Wikipedia:

Included on the street is the Rutherford Bar, patronized in the time of Robert Louis Stevenson and by members of The Speculative Society at the University. Their weekly meetings were held on Tuesdays, officially from 8 p.m. to midnight. Lord Guthrie, joint president of the Society with Stevenson in the years 1872-1873 and 1873-1874, recalls in his personal memoirs of Stevenson:

About nine we adjourned for half an hour, when most members left "to buy pencils", as they gravely informed any new-comer, a euphemism for a visit to Rutherford's public-house in Drummond Street, otherwise (also euphemistically) known as "The Pump".

-Lord Guthrie, Robert Louis Stevenson Some Personal Recollections