Everything about Timber Bush totally explained
Timber Bush,
Leith,
Edinburgh,
Scotland.
Etymology
"Bush" is the corrupt form of
Bourse, meaning a
stock exchange
History
Timber Bush was originally the open
piazza in the lower storey of an ancient building adjoining Queen Street Chapel in
Leith, where the merchants and traders met for business - the Bourse, or exchange.
Later the whole ground was used as a
timber market - hence its name. It was known also as the "Timber
Howff", or "Timber Holf" - the name is used as equivalent to Timber Yard.
By order of the
Burgh Council, no Timber Bushes were allowed on any part of
Princes Street, or the pleasure grounds there.
Part of the seawall built by
Robert Mylne in 1685 to protect the stores of wood within Timber Bush from being washed away by the sea still forms the lower part of the walls of the shacks lining adjacent Tower Street, and in them one can easily discern
embrasures for
cannon and through which the timber cargoes floated from the ships were hauled, for storage within the Timber Bush.
The export of
whisky from, and the import of
wine into
Leith, gave it a large trade in
coopering. In his
Bride of Lammermoor,
Sir Walter Scott speaks of "Peter Puncheon that was cooper to the queen's stores at the Timmer Burse (that is, Timber Bush) at Leith."
The Bond Warehouses where the wine and whisky were stored form the main part of the southern wall and eastern sides of Timberbush, and externally still are remarkably untouched by later redevelopment.
Present day
Timber Bush is now a pleasant enclave behind the busy traffic of Commercial Street, and home to up market flats, ethical marketing firms and small media companies, such as
bigmouthmedia, Pro Poor (organisers of the
Homeless World Cup), international sustainable tourism consultants
Dunira Strategy and
New Consumer Magazine, a resource on
ethical consumerism.
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