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“FIRE IN EDINBURGH TANNERY” is the headlines in THE EVENING DISPATCH NEWSPAPER.

6th September 1934
"FIRE IN EDINBURGH TANNERY" is the headlines in THE EVENING DISPATCH NEWSPAPER.
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1934 – “A general view, taken from the south side of the Water of Leith, of the tannery belonging to Messrs Robert Legget and Sons, Dean Village, after the fire broke out there early this morning.”

Dean Village Memories Added by Dean Village Memories Attributed to: The Evening Dispatch- From the Archive of David Le Sueur and Family

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Dean Village Damside
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Dean Village Memories
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How did I manage to become a Legget? My Mother Helen Marjory Stewart Legget was the Daughter of Robert Sommerville Legget 1888 - 1963, Wool Merchant and Part Owner of the Dean Village Tannery.

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