Cafe Vegetaria, Edinburgh 1911
Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
>>> Anybody know anything about the Cafe Vegetaria?
>> It's mentioned 29 times in the Scotsman, all between 1909 and 1912.
>> From the examples I looked at it seems to have been a common venue
>> for radical meetings incluing the Fabian Society. There's also
>> a report of a wedding there.
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> Interesting set of connections. The building dates from the 1790s,
> and had become the Edinburgh Temperance Hotel by 1849. By the 1990s
> it was Nicolson's Cafe, which is where J.K. Rowling started writing
> the first Harry Potter book.
Isn't it the Elephant House on George IV Bridge which lays claim to
being the birthplace of HP?
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