Edinburgh - Deacon Broadie's Tavern, Royal Mile - large postcard c.1990s

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• Picture / Image:  Deacon Brodie's Tavern, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh
• Publisher:  Lomond Books
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
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• Notes / condition:  larger postcard

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Popular myth holds that Deacon Brodie built the first gallows in Edinburgh and was also its first victim. Of this William Roughead in Classic Crimes states that after research he was sure that although the Deacon may have had some hand in the design, "...it was certainly not of his construction, nor was he the first to benefit by its ingenuity".

Robert Louis Stevenson, whose father owned furniture made by Brodie, wrote a play (with W. E. Henley) entitled Deacon Brodie, or The Double Life, which was unsuccessful. However, Stevenson remained fascinated by the dichotomy between Brodie's respectable façade and his real nature and was inspired to write The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).^[2]

Deacon Brodie is commemorated by a pub of that name on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, on the corner of the Lawnmarket and Bank Street which leads down to The Mound; and a close off the Royal Mile, which contained his family residence and workshops, still bears the name "Brodie's Close". A pub in New York City carrying his name sits on the south side of the famous west side 46th Street Restaurant Row between 8th Avenue and 9th Avenue.

A TV movie of the same name was aired on 8 March 1997 on BBC1. Part of the Screen One season, it starred Billy Connolly and was made in Edinburgh.^[3]