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Ground now occupied by Cameron Toll Shopping Centre in Edinburgh was once an important village with a school, tollhouse, and resting places for merchants travelling into the city

The first Jewish grave site in Edinburgh is situated to the north of the City Observatory in Edinburgh - dating back to the late 18th century. The mausoleum was created by Herman Lyon, who was looking for a burial plot

Edinburgh City Poorhouse, which is in the Greenbank part of the capital, provided a "comfortable home for the aged and poor" in its heydey

Wham!, Duran Duran, Hot Chocolate, Kiss, Cliff Richard, Eric Clapton and Elizabeth Taylor all stayed at the Dragonara Hotel which opened in the early eighties in Edinburgh