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Coordinates: 55°58′48″N 3°10′12″W / 55.980089°N 3.170049°W / 55.980089; -3.170049
Leith ( /ˈliːθ/ LEETH; Scottish Gaelic: Lìte) is a district and former municipal burgh to the north of the city of Edinburgh at the mouth of the Water of Leith in Scotland. It has long been regarded as Edinburgh's port. It lies on the south shore of the Firth of Forth, in the unitary local authority of the City of Edinburgh.
First referred to in the charter authorising the construction of Holyrood Abbey, Leith officially became Edinburgh's port in 1329 when Robert I transferred control to the magistrates and citizens of Edinburgh. It remains a busy port, handling over 1.5 million tonnes of cargo a year.
Up until the late 16th century Leith (originally designated Inverleith, i.e. the mouth of the Water of Leith, on early maps), comprised two separate towns on either side of the river.
South Leith was the larger, coming under the jurisdiction of St. Cuthbert's parish in Edinburgh. It was based on trade and had many merchants' houses and warehouses. This was where ships offloaded their cargoes at the Shore where they were collected by Edinburgh merchants.
Actors: Craig Boreham (actor), Jonathan Wald (editor), Billy Marshall Stoneking (producer), Melissa Anastasi (producer), Christina Conrad (writer), Christina Conrad (costume designer), Christina Conrad (director), Marc Carlis (actor), Ryan Lee (actor),
Plot: Leith - an obsessed transvestite has been involved in a fifteen year relationship with her lover, jelly and Jelly's dead mother, whose spirit inhabits a large fig tree in their garden beneath which Jelly's placenta is buried. Consumed by jealousy for the mother, and by a primordial urge to possess Jelly - a slippery and seemingly passive drama lecturer - Leith's world is cracked wide open by the arrival of Jelly's student - the exotic beauty, Hart Sommerstein. Later when Jelly arrives home, she accuses him of having an affair. In a shattering confrontation, they spill the horror of their relationship, and in her frenzy to destroy the mother's dominance, Leith slays the tree with an ax, which unexpectedly frees Jelly.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Colin Fox (actor), Kenneth Welsh (actor), Gerard Parkes (actor), Victor Garber (actor), Gary Reineke (actor), Nigel Bennett (actor), John Neville (actor), Aidan Devine (actor), Steve Adams (actor), Peter Donat (actor), Craig Eldridge (actor), Robert Joy (actor), Gordon Currie (actor), John N. Smith (director), Gabrielle Rose (actress),
Plot: Canadian troops stationed in England during the Second World War were ordered to attack the Nazi-occupied French seaside town of Dieppe. More than 900 were killed.
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