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Edinburgh locals recognise mosaic for lost city pub as ghost sign appears

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Vincent
AuthorIona Young
Published date14 June 2022
Publication titleEdinburghLive (Scotland)
Part of the signage for the Canon's Gait pub in the Canongate was removed this week revealing an elaborate mosaic underneath

When the picture was shared in local heritage group Lost Edinburgh, residents were quick to recognise the distinctive-looking mosaic as belonging to lost city pub The Blue Blanket.

The Blue Blanket opened after the Second World War and held its spot on the Canongate into the mid-1990s before it closed and reopened as the Canon's Gait which is still there today.

The Canon's Gait is currently undergoing a major refurbishment, with owners promising that the popular pub will reopen in coming weeks.

One local joked: "I must be getting old if the fact that the Blue Blanket mosaic is in 'Lost Edinburgh'"

While one said: "It will always be the Blue Blanket I was in it a few years ago it had changed so much."

Another local who fondly remembers the pub from decades ago added: "Drank in the blue blanket 70s."

The name Blue Blanket came from a city flag that was reportedly awarded to the craftsmen of Edinburgh by King James III in 1482 after they rescued him from Edinburgh Castle, where he'd been imprisoned for nine months.

It is also said to have been carried as the battle flag of the Edinburgh Trades at the Battle of Flodden in 1513, when a large number of...

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