I never realize I would come back again.
I left the National Library of Scotland to George IV Bridge after a couple of hours of routine book hunt in one normal evening. I walked past some cosy cafes and posh restaurants packed with chic people in fashionable outfit. A table of four outside a cafe greeted their friend just arrived warmly by arms and kisses.
When I turned into Chambers Street, a cold breeze hit me on my face. Strolling down the deserted Chambers Street from the National Museum of Scotland to the Old College of the University of Edinburgh, I looked at the dark and mysterious Victorian buildings and William Chamber statue in the centre of the street facing towards the steps and old main entrance to the museum. My thought muses upon the years past and things happened to bring me to this strange but familiar land. Nostalgia was consuming me.
I lived in the Old town, just down Chambers Street with a stairway. Next door is the former site of Earl of Galloway's house in the mid-nineteenth century. The window in the sitting room faces the former Argyle Brewery, which is reputed to have been established in 1710 (not at this site) and ceased to brew in 1970. Fortunately, the maltings section of the brewery remains and is incorporated with the building nearby to form the Departments of Architecture and History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. Over the Victorian period, the area was filled by learned and charitable establishments with Angustine Chapel, Baptist Chapel, Gaelic Church, Free Tron Church, Church of School Training College, Edinburgh School of Medicine (the oldest medical school in Scotland), Heriot Watt College (now a university), University of Edinburgh, Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh Dental Dispensary, Trades Maiden Hospital, and Edinburgh Maternity Hospital a few steps away.
