Each month the Old Edinburgh Club presents the memorable dates from history for our readers. This is what has happened in the past in October

1st In 1560, the Dean of Guild accounts recorded the sale of the jewels of the Collegiate Kirk of St Giles for well over £850. And in 1568, the Bannatyne Manuscript, the most extensive collection of early Scottish poetry in existence, was published by George Bannatyne, an Edinburgh merchant. Also in 1763, the contract to construct the North Bridge was signed. Finally in 1788, Deacon William Brodie was executed for theft. Even more, in 1824, Walter Scott welcomed the first students to the Edinburgh Academy.

2nd In 1854, sociologist and town planner Patrick Geddes was born; he was responsible for transforming sections of Edinburgh’s Old Town, which h

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