Essential Edinburgh City Tours
Visit:
Places of Interest
Shops, Pubs & Hotels
Streets
Community & Education
Churches
People
Architecture
Explore:
Edinburgh Castle
The Royal Mile
Princes Street
The New Town
The Water of Leith
Dean
Stockbridge
Canonmills
Broughton
Inverleith
Newhaven
Leith
Live:
Professions
Punishment
Religion
Leisure
Education
image copyright Rachel Windsor
The crossed ‘peels’ are found on a plaque on Bell’s Brae Bridge. A tool used by the Baxters or Bakers whose mills clustered together here in the Village of the Water of Leith, a peel was a long paddle like implement used to take hot loaves out of the oven.
The image shows Bell's Mills Bridge, and was first published in Edinburgh Old and New by James Grant
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Walk around Dean Village