Pub No 14 1/2

With all the sunshine today I was very tempted to blip the inside but resisted and went walkabout and people watching, taking photos as I went. I eventually stopped for a nice coffee.

The pub name comes from a gentleman in the 1850s who made his living by cleaning up horse dung from the streets of Edinburgh and selling it for manure. Tradition suggests that he would rest in his labours towards the west end of Rose Street and would be offered hospitality in the establishment that now carries his name. A hard life and grinding poverty eventually took their toll on Dirty Dick, as he became known: and he died before he discovered that relatives were trying to trace him because he had been left a legacy by the mother who gave him away as a baby.