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Leith Miscellany XIII
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The 'Penny Bap'
Unknown, 1981, Press cutting
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Title
The 'Penny Bap'
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Unknown
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Unknown
Date
1981
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10.1 x 14.8 cm
Type
Press cutting
The "Penny Bap" restored on its new site on reclaimed land at Seafield. The photograph was taken by retired elder Bill Collin in April 1981. In the car park of near by office buildings stands "the Penny Bap" stone, a huge glacial boulder dropped at Seafield by ice sheets after the last ice age.
Forgotten folk-lore in Edinburgh includes a tale of the elusive shell-clad Shellycoay believed to haunt Edinburgh's Docklands. According to local legend the Seafield Shellycoat made its home inside a barnacle encrusted boulder (The Penny Bap) that was moved when Leith docks expanded. Local children dared each other to run round the boulder 3 times chanting "Shelly-coat, Shelly-coat gang awa hame, I cry nar yer mercy, I fear na yer name". The spirit was said to appear.
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