‘leith’

Event	Date
Ship’s crew reports strange events at Flannan Isles Lighthouse	18th December
Leith-built steamship is first to cross the Atlantic	22nd April
Leith petition fails to save a man	4th April
The Proclaimers are born in Leith	5th March

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