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- As to whether it still exists, perhaps a student from Auld Reekie will pop up.
- The poem'Auld Reekie', written by Robert Fergusson in 1773, contains the lines:
- They would eventually be eliminated in the quarterfinals after a tense game against the Auld Reekie Rollergirls.
- His work often celebrated his native Edinburgh and Enlightenment conviviality, as in his best known poem " Auld Reekie " ( 1773 ).
- The league contributed two skaters ( Clinically Wasted and Fight Cub, previously of Auld Reekie Roller Girls ) to Team Scotland for the inaugural Roller Derby World Cup.
- In May 2010, the league hosted Scotland's first roller derby tournament, Highland Fling, with Glasgow Roller Girls, Auld Reekie Roller Girls and Dundee Rollergirls attending.
- LBRG's 2010 season saw them play three non-tournament games, taking on Auld Reekie Roller Girls ( Edinburgh ), Central City Rollergirls ( Birmingham ) and Royal Windsor Rollergirls ( Windsor ).
- The team played their first bout at " Hadrian's Brawl " on 11 April 2010, playing against the B team from the Auld Reekie Roller Girls at the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh.
- In 2001, he guest-starred in the " Midsomer Murders " episode " Ring Out Your Dead " and also played The Marquis of Auld Reekie in " The Way We Live Now ".
- In mid-1773 Fergusson attempted his own publication of " Auld Reekie ", now regarded as his masterpiece, a vivid verse portrait of his home city intended as the first part of a planned long poem.
- "VIC 27 " renamed " Auld Reekie ", which starred as the " Vital Spark " in the third BBC TV Para Handy series, was berthed at Crinan Basin for 14 years deteriorating.
- Formed in April 2008 the Auld Reekie Roller Girls were Edinburgh's first women's flat track roller derby league, and take their name after the city of Edinburgh, affectionately known as'Auld Reekie'('Old Smoky'in the Scots language ).
- Formed in April 2008 the Auld Reekie Roller Girls were Edinburgh's first women's flat track roller derby league, and take their name after the city of Edinburgh, affectionately known as'Auld Reekie'('Old Smoky'in the Scots language ).
- Mary King s Close consists of a number of closes which were originally narrow streets with tenement houses on either side, stretching up to seven storeys high and located in the heart of the city of Edinburgh s Old Town ( affectionately nicknamed at the time as Auld Reekie ) in Scotland.
- The city is affectionately nicknamed " Auld Reekie ", Robert Chambers who asserted that the sobriquet could not be traced before the reign of Charles II attributed the name to a Fife laird, Durham of Largo, who regulated the bedtime of his children by the smoke rising above Edinburgh from the fires of the tenements.
- By contrast, older city nicknames may be critical; London is still occasionally referred to as " The Smoke " in memory of its notorious " Pea-Souper " Smogs ( smoke-filled fogs ) of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and Edinburgh was " Auld Reekie " for the same reason, as countless coal fires polluted its atmosphere.