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English: A memorial to canal navigators It is not for helping to dig the Union Canal that two of Edinburgh's former residents are best known but for their digging up graves in cemeteries and selling the bodies so that students in local medical colleges could practice their dissection skills. When illegal exhumation became difficult, William Burke and William Hare resorted to murdering their anatomical victims. However, adjacent to the Union Canal between Slateford and Kingsknowe it is the job they first took when they came across from Ulster, as navigators or navvies building the canal navigation, that is commemorated in a lifesize carving from a single tree trunk. |
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| Author | A-M-Jervis |
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