The Story of Leith
by John Russell
This book kindly provided by Ranald McIntyre

To
Thomas Fraser
and to
All the Leith Boys and Girls
whom he used to send on school excursions to visit the historical buildings and monuments of their own district.

Preface

Contents

1. Leith in Prehistoric and Roman Times
2. Leith in Early Days
3. Leith's Early Shipping Trade
4. Leith's Part with Robert The Bruce
5. The Logans
6. The Enmity with Edinburgh: It's Origin
7. The Enmity with Edinburgh: It's Development
8. The Overlordship of Edinburgh
9. The Overlordship of Edinburgh (continued)
10. St Anthony's: A Medaeval Hospital
11. The Trade Guilds of Leith
12. Leith in the Fifteenth Century
13. Our Parish Churches: South Leith
14. Our Parish Churches: North Leith
15. Leith Shipping in Early Stuart Times
16. Leith's Sea-Dogs: Sir Andrew Wood
17. Leith's Sea-Dogs: The Fighting Bartons
18. The Rise of Newhaven
19. Newhaven: A Fishing Village
20. Leith in Later Stuart Times
21. The Burning of Leith
22. The Siege of Leith
23. Queen's Men versus King's Men
24. Leith after The Union of the Crowns
25. Plague and Pestilence
26. Cromwell's Ironsides in Leith
27. Leith in the "Killing Times"
28. Leith Changing to Modern Times
29. The Troubles that Followed the Union
30. Progress begins in Leith
31. The Commerce of Leith
32. The Industries of Leith
33. How Leith was Governed
34. Leith's Honourable Record in the Great War