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Does anyone know anything about a black dagger that is said to be found in one of the closes of the royal mile


I found it in my dressing gown pocket and that question got deleted! Some idiot must have reported it!!

Not sure.. but is that where you found your phone?

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Can't find that question..

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BTW, as someone else mentioned, the Hub at the top of Lawnmarket is also known as the "Black Dagger", whether or not that's what you meant.

Don't really understand what you are trying to ask here at all. What do you mean, in one of the closes? Do you mean closest? What do you mean "royal mile"? Oh wait, is this a British thing?

What the heck would I know? I am just a colonist. LOL

you do know that the black dagger on the royal mile is a massive building dont you?
it isnt up a close

The Black Dagger is the tip of the 50m-high spire is atop Tolbooth St John's Church. It is the tallest built work in Edinburgh.
This building used to be the Church of Scotland's Tolbooth St John's Church, 1839-44. Pugin (architect of The Houses of Parliament, London) was instrumental in achieving the drama - designing the spire, entrance vestibule and the Lord High Commissioner's throne; the architect for the main body of the church was James Gillespie Graham. Ben Tindall Architects inform me that 'for its day the church was highly technically advanced building, with the earliest use of one structural elements, service systems and materials'.

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