Plaque
Plaque - Mary Symon
MARY SYMON
1863-1938
A woman of great knowledge and a poet of national significance
"But ah! It takes the dear Scots word
To grip your heart an' mine"
Plaque to Caroline Phillips
Caroline Phillips
Suffragette and Journalist
1874-1956
Honorary Secretary of the Women's Social and Political Union, Aberdeen branch worked here (1907-1909)
Plaque to Margaret Caroline Tait
Temporary Plaque to Margaret Tait
Margaret Tait
1918-1999
FILMMAKER & POET
Edinburgh played a very important role in Margaret Tait's life and work. She was sent to Edinburgh for boarding in the 1940s, obtained a degree in medicing from the University of Edinburgh in 1941, and later established her film studio on Edinburgh's Rose Street. Several of her films feature Edinburgh as a subject. She also wrote at some length in her diaries about her experiences of living in the city. In many ways, Edinburgh served as Tait's muse
16 August, 1976: 'I used to like an 8 a.m. walk through Princes Street gardens - a mistry air of expectancy on a sunny morning, with a few visitors off the early trains looking dazed'.
There are also temporary plaques at Milne's Bar and Rose Street in Edinburgh, as well as a croft at West Aith on Orkney - with the hope that they will all be made permanent. There will be a memorial in St Magnus Cathedral, the first woman in Poet's Corner there.
Plaque to Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
1820-1910
Plaque to Dorothea Lynde Dix
Dorothea Lynde Dix
1802-1887
Plaque to Susan Ferrier
SUSAN FERRIER
1782 - 1854
SATIRICAL NOVELIST
LIVED HERE
Information board on Mrs Innes
White Horse Close
"Her name is Mrs Innes and the White Horse is her sign
And happy is the man or beast that happens there to dine."
Mrs Innes was the landlady of the White Horse Inn for 51 years in the C19th.
Plaque to Bella Keyzer
Bella Keyzer
Welder
1922-1992
Information board on Jessie Kesson
