Winter Light Parade@Fishwives Causeway

Schedule

Sat, 01 Feb, 2025 at 05:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Fishwives Causeway | Edinburgh, SC

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Join us for a winter parade through Fishwives Causeway to help raise awareness and to call for better signage for this important alternative path towards Meadowbank.
Our lanterns will light up this safer back route for cyclists and pedestrians from Portobello to Restalrig.
There will be a winter choir to lift our spirits up and hot food and drink to keep us warm.
Come and meet others who enjoy walking, scooting, wheelchair wheeling, cycling, pushing a pram and riding around Edinburgh. Celebrate our traffic-free routes with a child and family-friendly parade.
The parade will begin at 5.45 and we’ll all meet together on the far side of the Baileyfield Road traffic lights on Fishwives Causeway at 5.30pm.
We are hoping that people will arrive on bicycle and on foot. If you are coming with a bike, you’ll need to dismount and wheel it along the route. We will parade right through the Fishwives Causeway to its end, and back again and then enjoy some hot drinks and snacks, and some music. And we'll be finished by 7pm.
Bring lanterns, lights, torches, and sport your high-vis winter fashion looks, to brighten this route on our parade.
We’re also hoping to run some family friendly workshops to make some lovely lanterns in the run up to this event, so that we can light up the night.
History of Fishwives Causeway: This route – an old Roman road - was used by the Fishwives of Musselburgh, who travelled into Portobello and then through Fishwives Causeway making their route into town. These women, often carrying heavy creels on their back, made their independent living selling fish on the streets of Edinburgh.
Roads in and out of Musselburgh were tolled, but as you didn’t have to pay when on foot, the Fishwives preferred to carry their creels and walk out of Musselburgh and through Fishwives Causeway.
Join us to trace their steps as we encourage people to start using this safer route, that avoids the dangerous crossroads on the edge of Portobello, and to help us raise awareness of the need for better signage, and improvement of the route.
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Where is it happening?

Fishwives Causeway, Bridge Street, Edinburgh, EH15 1, United Kingdom,Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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