User:Kim Traynor

  Hi.

Probably all you need to know about me is that I'm a Scottish male, which will doubtless explain most of my Wikipedia contributions. When I look something up, I often find a gap which I feel the urge to fill. It does seem a bit self-defeating at times...

My main contributions include:


 * Argyll's Lodging
 * Bruntsfield Links
 * Burgh Muir
 * Burke and Hare murders
 * Caddie
 * Canonmills
 * Convention of Royal Burghs
 * David Hackston
 * Dean Bridge
 * Easter Road
 * Fountainbridge
 * Great Polish Map of Scotland
 * History of Edinburgh
 * Jewish cemetery, Buttenhausen
 * Jordan Burn
 * Luckenbooths
 * Mercat cross
 * Richard Cameron
 * The Singing Street
 * Tollcross
 * Vennel
 * White Horse Close
 * Younger's

And I've (hopefully) made significant contributions, among others, to:
 * Abbeyhill
 * Archbishop Sharp
 * Arthur's Seat
 * Battle of Dunbar (1650)
 * Battle of Pinkie Cleugh
 * Battle of Stirling Bridge (The battle in fiction)
 * Black Watch
 * Burntisland
 * Ceres
 * Coat of arms of Edinburgh
 * Colinton
 * Covenanter
 * Crail
 * Donald Cargill
 * Duddingston
 * Earl Haig
 * Edinburgh (History section and general input)
 * Edinburgh Castle
 * Edinburgh International Festival
 * Edinburgh Trams
 * Forth Bridge (World Wars)
 * Gogar
 * Granton
 * Grassmarket
 * Great Fire of Edinburgh (1824)
 * Gretna rail disaster
 * History of the Jews in Scotland
 * Inchkeith
 * James Braidwood
 * James Gillespie
 * James Grahan, Marquis of Montrose
 * John Knox's House
 * Kellie Castle
 * Leith
 * Leith Links (The Plague of 1645)
 * Leith Walk
 * Mercat Cross, Edinburgh
 * North Berwick
 * Opera in Scotland
 * Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh
 * Indian Peter
 * Princes Street Gardens
 * Royal Mile
 * Scots in Poland
 * Scots in Poland contd.
 * St Giles' Cathedral (Reformation and Religious Conflict)
 * The Bonnie Earl O' Moray
 * Major Weir
 * The Killing Time
 * Timeline of Edinburgh history
 * West Port
 * Wynd

...and many other smaller contributions, especially in the form of images, of which these are a few examples:


 * Agnes Maclehose
 * Alexander III of Scotland
 * Architecture of Scotland
 * Arran


 * Art in early modern Scotland
 * Bagpipes
 * Battle of Inverkeithing
 * Blackford
 * Body snatching
 * Bonnington
 * Border Reivers
 * Borthwick Castle
 * Bruntsfield
 * Burgh
 * Calton Hill
 * Canongate Kirk
 * Captain John Porteous
 * Church of Scotland
 * Church of Scotland Offices
 * Colinton
 * Corstorphine
 * Cowgate
 * Craiglockhart
 * Crichton Castle
 * Dalry
 * David Bryce
 * Deacon Brodie
 * Dean Village
 * Dean Cemetery
 * Disruption of 1843
 * Douglas, South Lanarkshire
 * Doocot
 * Dunfermline
 * Dunfermline Abbey
 * Economic history of Scotland
 * Edinburgh City Chambers
 * Edinburgh Festival
 * Edinburgh Festival Fringe
 * Edinburgh town walls
 * Fettes College
 * General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
 * General Wade
 * George Heriot
 * Gladstone's Land
 * Glasgow
 * Glen Coe
 * Gorgie
 * Gorgie-Dalry
 * Government in early modern Scotland
 * Greenhill
 * Greyfriars Kirk
 * Greyfriars Kirkyard
 * Haymarket
 * History of Scotland
 * Honours of Scotland
 * History of Christianity in Scotland
 * History of popular religion in Scotland
 * History of golf
 * Hugh Miller
 * Inverleith
 * James Guthrie
 * James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh
 * James Watt
 * John Blackadder
 * John Knox
 * Jougs
 * Liberton
 * Linlithgow
 * Malcolm III of Scotland
 * Lochrin
 * Lothian and Borders Police
 * Marchmont
 * Mary, Queen of Scots
 * Morningside
 * Mortsafe
 * Moubray House
 * Museum of Childhood (Edinburgh)
 * National Museum of Flight
 * National Museum of Scotland
 * New Town, Edinburgh
 * Newington
 * Nor Loch
 * North Bridge, Edinburgh
 * Order of the Thistle
 * Parliament House
 * Piershill
 * Pilrig
 * Pittenweem
 * Porteous Riots
 * Prestonfield House
 * Prestonpans
 * Regent Morton
 * Restalrig
 * Robert Burns
 * Robert Burns memorials
 * Robert Fergusson
 * Robert Knox
 * Rough Wooing
 * Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
 * Royal Mile Closes
 * Royal Scots
 * Royal Scots Greys
 * Royal Scots Navy
 * Sciennes
 * Scotland
 * Scotland in the Early Modern Era
 * Scottish Government
 * Scottish highland dance
 * Scottish religion in the seventeenth century
 * Sculpture in Scotland
 * Seaforth Highlanders
 * Setts
 * Siege of Leith
 * Sir Patrick Spens
 * Sir Walter Scott
 * Slateford
 * South Leith Parish Church
 * St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society
 * St. Mary's Cathedral
 * Statistical Accounts of Scotland
 * Stockbridge
 * Surgeons' Hall
 * Swanston
 * The Canongate
 * Theatre of Scotland
 * The Maiden
 * Thomas Chalmers
 * Thomas Hamilton
 * Third English Civil War
 * Timber Bush
 * Trinity
 * Tron Kirk
 * University of Edinburgh
 * University of Edinburgh Medical School
 * Vincenzo Lunardi
 * Warfare in early modern Scotland
 * Waverley Station
 * Wemyss Ware
 * William Henry Playfair

...not to mention two lists of guid Scots phrases (though I will).


 * Scotticism
 * Scottish English

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