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St Vincent's Chapel, Edinburgh
St Vincent's Chapel is a Scottish Episcopal church in the Stockbridge area of Edinburgh, at the corner of St Vincent Street and St Stephen Street, and just opposite the much larger St Stephen's Church. It was designed by the Hay brothers of Liverpool and opened in 1857. It is a Category B listed building and is noted for the extensive decorative scheme and artefacts relating to the Order of St Lazarus.
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Silvermills
Silvermills, once an ancient village, has been part of Edinburgh since 1809.
The village is most likely to have taken its name from mills erected to smelt and refine silver ore which had been found at Hilderstone in Linlithgowshire in 1607 or, alternatively, from some of the alchemical projects of James IV or James V.
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Saint Stephen's Theatre, Edinburgh
Saint Stephen's Theatre is a former Church of Scotland church located in the Northern New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, at the corner of Saint Stephen Street and Saint Vincent Street, now a theatre and event venue.
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Stockbridge public library
Stockbridge public library, built in 1898, is one of Edinburgh's 28 freely accessible libraries, located in the Stockbridge area of the city.
The library is currently open six days a week and, in addition to the collection of books, provides "bookbug" sessions for the under-fives, a knitting club and acts as one of the city's business hubs
As with all of the city's libraries, Stockbridge library uses the Library of Congress Classification system for its adult collection. Since 1974, when Wigan dropped the classification system, Edinburgh is the only area in the UK where public libraries use the US classification scheme. Children's books, and some non-English works, are indexed using the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme.
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Edinburgh Academy
The Edinburgh Academy is a private day school in Edinburgh, Scotland, which was opened in 1824. The original building, on Henderson Row in Stockbridge, is now part of the Senior School. The Junior School is on Arboretum Road to the north of the city's Royal Botanic Garden.
In the latter half of the twentieth century there were many cases of physical and sexual abuse of pupils by Edinburgh Academy staff; in 2023 the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry investigated numerous reports by ex-pupils of historical abuse by several staff; the Academy later issued an acknowledgement and apology. Several surviving staff member were found guilty in criminal trials, or Examinations of Facts ("trials of the facts") for those unfit to plead.