With thousands of years of fascinating history and lives lived across the city, Edinburgh is not short of hidden gems and one is a huge mausoleum in the middle of a quiet housing estate.

Take a stroll up Craigentinny Crescent in the north-east of Edinburgh and there, sticking out like a black sheep, is a huge Victorian mausoleum that's entirely out of place in a sea of 1930s bungalows.

The mausoleum was the final resting place of one William Henry Miller, a wealthy Midlothian landowner who served several terms as the MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme.

He spent a large part of his life on his estate in Berkshire where he amassed an extensive collection of rare books. He was not, however, your ordinary run-of-the-mill bibliophile. He was more obsessed with the size of books than he was with the

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