Old Handbills and Billets.

Recently we came across a folder with old billets that had been stored away with some books containing information
regarding the Mither Shed. I have managed to scan in some of the billets and restored the damaged ones.
The first is an example of the condition they were in compared to the restored version.
As you can see the perforations, missing text and parts of the characters have been restored.
(by clicking on a billet it will open up as a larger version except for those marked with a small asterisk in the
lower right-hand corner, those images are courtesy of the Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services)
It is interesting, from a historical point of view, to note the world events that prompted some of the cartoons.

(They are not in chronological order.)