The photograph shows the Hotel Missoni...

The photograph shows the Hotel Missoni, George IV Bridge mentioned in last week’s blog. A plaque on the wall states that the building stands on the spot formerly known as Melbourne Place.

Both the Royal Medical Society and the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce had their headquarters in the thoroughfare.

In 1858 the year Bobby is said to have appeared in Greyfriars Kirkyard, a proposal by Edinburgh businessman John Hewat that a gun be placed on the Calton Hill and fired at one o’ clock was approved by the members of the Chamber of Commerce.

When the One o’Clock Gun was set up on the Half Moon Battery at Edinburgh Castle in 1861, Bobby used the sound of the gun as a signal to go for his dinner at Currie's Eating House, 6 Greyfriars Place.

Six years later‘The Scotsman’ reported the story turning Bobby into a national celebrity. Photograph courtesy of the Hotel Missoni.

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