The Hidden Masonic History of the Edinburgh Royal Mile

Join Steve Chalmers for a sunny walk in Edinburgh, as he shows us around the Royal Mile while pointing out the places of Masonic interest.
Watch the video to hear about:
00:04 - Intro
01:37 - Edinburgh Castle
02:34 - Witches' Well
04:23 - Victoria Regalia
04:41 - CLX Aquila Romana
05:57 - Milne's Court
07:32 - Robert Burns' stay
09:12 - Lodge 291
10:43 - Brodie's Tavern
12:03 - Mary's Chapel
12:50 - St James Clamshell
14:51 - St Cecilia's Hall
16:21 - Journeymen Masons
17:33 - Pleasance, Flodden Wall
19:23 - James Hutton Memorial Garden
19:55 - St John's Street
21:05 - Maltese Cross
22:27 - Abbey Strand & Rosicrucian Sundial
24:26 - St Anthony's Chapel
25:06 - Outro & Credits
The information found in this video is based on the knowledge accumulated by Brother Steve Chalmers from various sources, throughout his years of offering a guided tour of the Royal Mile. He has decided to share his knowledge, and created this film with the hope that it will encourage people to seek out these places themselves, when they get the chance to visit Scotland's capital. This film is intended as primer to kindle curiosity in the viewer for carrying out further research on the topics mentioned. Should such research result in information that contradicts the ideas shared in this video, please do get in touch, we would be honoured to stand corrected! Similarly, should they find any additional information let us know by leaving a comment under this video!
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[@nickyjames1132]

I’m the son of Linnie Paterson. My father would be proud to be mentioned in this run down of local history 😊🙏

[@Crosshatch1212]

That ruin on Arthur seat when I was a kid u cld go in it ,it’s been robbed since 84 ,cause it had three walls not two ,

[@ianbishop3835]

Really interesting video. I’ve been in exile in Australia for the last 10 years but am planning a return visit to Edinburgh in December 2024. Will make a point of retracing your steps and seeing the high street in a new light. Fond memories of visiting CLX with my father, a PM of St. John Fisherrow 112 and PGM of Midlothian. Thanks for a great job. Ian Bishop MM 112

[@francish5401]

Greetings bro from Dublin in Rep of Ireland. I am masonic myself for an excellent video and well filmed.keep up the good work I had a fantastic trip recently in Edinburgh.What a fantastic city.

[@benbhoy9]

Son of Satan …. 👹

[@Crosshatch1212]

Do you like the way Irelands going at the moment

[@sergiobasilioli384]

Wow a lot of hidden gems. Can't wait to visit!

[@iaincampbell5094]

Absolutely fascinating, thank you for making this. I hope you will consider doing further masonic histories of Edinburgh, I'm sure there would be a lot of interest in these.

[@MaximumEfficiency]

creeps hidden in plain sight

[@francish5401]

Good morning bro, Thanks very interested in the masonic history I belong to the Dublin lodge. Best wishes, Bro Francis.Herron.

[@gilbertobi1877]

I need to be a member

[@Crosshatch1212]

It’s a statue of a man laying in an arch and may I say a very nice crypt it is .

[@duggdugg176]

A wonderful tour, well written and presented and cheeky enough to be fun!

[@robertedlund6357]

Thank you. It was a beautiful walk!!

[@jamessargent4126]

Loved it bro James Sargent PM st john no 11wae a wee toon in Ayrshire maybole very interesting 🌺

[@adamturner8732]

The mile is one of the most beautiful places in the world. It's just magic

[@skalmelid]

Thanks for the tour, I hope to visit some day! Slàinte Mhath from a brother in Sweden ❤️

[@stevechalmers3454]

Thanks John my first comment !! yours aye Steve

[@ruboo8053]

I am a Milne on my mother’s side thank you for this ☺️ very interesting

[@deanagarnes2676]

Thank you, many memories for me. ❤

[@alphapred]

I'll see you soon as there is a new addition to the bucket list. PHA M.M. Warfiled #44

[@stevechalmers3454]

Thanks Ian I liked the correction you told me about on Phone regarding Burns Thats why this is on Utube

[@JustExperience101]

So interesting thanks for the information

[@johnbrash7560]

Very good Stevie.

[@aprilvereen3169]

The irony is there's exactly 33 comments...before this 1. I mess everything up for everybody 😬

[@lizmcleod2734]

On my doorstep and still learning!

[@stevechalmers3454]

Thanks This is intended to get everyone to walk the Mile and look at oor ain history My wife’s family are Macleod with Skye and Lewis connections Trump that

[@trevorashworth7307]

Thank you Worshipful Brother

[@Dream-zs7bl]

Very interesting! Thanks!

[@allencummings6152]

Ma' Guid Frien an' Brither. Nicely done. The Auld Yin Hisel

[@iaindoole4060]

Well done Stevie, very informative. Aye Iain

[@DavidSmith-fz5nl]

Excellent. Thank you.

[@delmurray1642]

I notice some people in the comments disappointed because they didn't get the conspiracy hit they expected 😂. Good video, and very interesting 👍

[@Crosshatch1212]

Nagh you’ll no get nothing of a normal mason bro or someone that hasn’t a clue about higalean dialect .

[@theskippy7]

You do know Rome,an Irish Gaelic word for heaven and Earth RO and OME,and the Vatican,stole Christianity? It left Ireland as 3500yr old Druidic Kolbrin Christianity,and returned as Roman Catholicism.

[@kev-bhoy-6748]

Go back to St Patrick 350AD

[@theskippy7]

@@kev-bhoy-6748 Or go back to the Kolbrin Bible 1500 BC,pre dating Patrick by a couple of thousand years.

[@mcdell6970]

@@kev-bhoy-6748 Your club will be in the high court on the royal mile next month

[@christarant2538]

Brilliant

[@theskippy7]

Your horizontal line with 3 downward lines was stolen by the Masons from Ireland,it represents the Druids,the Bards and the Ovates,and technically coloured blue,white and green.

[@LRBeforeTheInternet]

I would say shared, adopted, or at the very least appropriated, but certainly not "stolen". It's like saying you stole the English language. LOL :)

[@theskippy7]

@@LRBeforeTheInternet If you take someone elses religeon,rewrite it,set it in a different area,and then pass it off as your own,sorry,but thats definitely stealing. But then Freemasonary itself was stolen/plagerized from the Irish Phrea Masonary,by the same people,for the same reason,to hide the fact it was stolen in the first place from the Irish.

[@LRBeforeTheInternet]

@@theskippy7 As I've already stated, It's like saying you've stolen the English language, and it simply makes no sense, Neil. LOL :)

[@theskippy7]

@@LRBeforeTheInternet So if i took English,added a load of new words,called it French and ran it out as my own work,thats NOT stealing and plagerizing is it not? If the Freemasons were still called the Phrea Masons and still practising the Kolbrin bible,id agree,but they,re simply not.

[@LRBeforeTheInternet]

@@theskippy7 No, It's a social construct, Neil, as is all language and its shared meaning, however etymologically derivative they may be.

[@gson6867]

How old is your grandmother

[@andrewnorrie3809]

There is a lodge within the castle.

[@ancientanomalies]

Deceived

[@Crosshatch1212]

I theory’s cause he’s was full of it .

[@paulbrodie6085]

The backwards masons

[@dougie6886]

Ayrshire, that freemason county. So embedded in all the 3 local authorities.

[@stevechalmers3454]

Thanks Dougie Where are you from? I’m tattie town escapee

[@elizabethbowie9753]

Rosalin Chapel, built in the 1440's ???!!! Then Why is the American Flag carved up on the ceiling ??? 🤷

[@Crosshatch1212]

Why I’d there a statue of Lincoln in Colton hill cemetery ,look that up .

[@Vb98765]

He sounds as boring as I'd expect a Mason would be

[@aprilvereen3169]

Totally dude

[@mds7707]

video keeps going in and out of focus; too distracting

[@keepitsimple4629]

Not a very charismatic narrator.

[@garrychalmers67]

Pure Shite lasted 5 minutes on this video

[@1gerard47]

I minute bye.

[@williammacewan7524]

He said the English burnt the White House down. It was the British, in fact The Black Watch Regiment

[@stevechalmers3454]

As a way of securing their hold on Scotland the “Brits” recruited fit fighting age men into their army and sent them away to India Caribbean Canada etc etc Taking many from Perthshire using black watch as their infantry as England continues to do today in Afghanistan etc

[@SacredDreamer]

​@@stevechalmers3454 😞 .. and then the "Transportation" ,, after they gave the blight potato, and burned crofts and moved clans into the industrial zones, or stole them ,, for The Land Clearances.

[@saorsa5]

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