Royal High School into a national music school were initially rejected Towards continuity & stability Charlie Ellis gives us a year in the life of the old Royal Edinburgh High School and a possible future A cultural Info: Charlie Ellis is an Edinburgh based researcher and EFL teacher who writes on culture, education

Athens Athens’ streets groan with oranges, unexpected in a cacophonous car dominated metropolis writes Charlie Ellis Green spaces are exceedingly rare.

Photograph: Graeme Yuill The path with no end in sight Needing to clear his head, Charlie Ellis, finds Info: Charlie Ellis is a researcher and EFL teacher who writes on culture, education, coffee, and politics

Photographs: Charlie Ellis A new link to the past Edinburgh is one of the most congested cities in the Charlie Ellis

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Asks Charlie Ellis, a confirmed coffee confrere In the last 15 years or so the UK has undergone something Charlie Ellis is a researcher and EFL teacher who writes on culture, education, politics, sport and coffee

Charlie Ellis reckons Kul Coffee’s arrival is representative of posh coffee’s seemingly inexorable growth

deteriorating spaces can add to the sense of a public domain in decline, even a city in decline, says Charlie Ellis Across Edinburgh, from Harrison Park to Powderhall and Leith Links, disused council bowling greens

1930s The Jura Typewriter Is George Orwell’s 1984 typewriter hiding somewhere in a Leith attic, asks Charlie Ellis? Haynes reportedly displayed the machine in his Paperback bookshop (on Charles Street), promoting 1984

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: A Requiem for Industrial Leith The first time he passed it on foot, this mysterious room captured Charlie Ellis’s imagination with surprising force At the very end of a long, dark, mothballed stone building

Leith Writings The writers take a well-deserved bow The Silence in Between Charlie Ellis on Finding Connection

Criticisms are hurled at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe every August writes Charlie Ellis Many locals

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Charlie Ellis writes on culture, education, politics and sport.

Cafe Steven Wright and Roberto Benigni Bringing a Local Flavour to Leith Charlie Ellis chats to Steven

Charlie Ellis writes on culture, education, politics and sport.

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