77:. This was at a time when the theatre, which had just re-opened after the War, was mainly run by volunteers on a shoestring budget. Harris served as technical director and set designer. In the latter role, he reconstructed the entire stage after it had been out of use for several years, finishing the job just hours before the curtain went up on the opening night.
150:. As part of the project, Harris visited twenty-one theatres and opera houses in West Germany and Switzerland. But owing to delays, rising costs and problems with the design, the project was eventually abandoned, with the site remaining vacant until the late 1980s. The failure of the opera house has often been cited as an example of a
179:. This 608-page reference describes the origins of, and changes in, the names of over a thousand streets, roads, former farms, villages and other features in what is now the city of Edinburgh. It is regarded by local historians as the definitive work on the subject and is frequently cited in articles and books on Edinburgh history.
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He was an elder of his church, the
Slateford Longstone Parish Church, where he ran the choir. He was involved in the Boys Club movement, and produced plays for the North Merchiston Boys Club and was Honorary Architect to the Club. His other interests included sailing, classical music, organ design
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In the 1970s, he was a project manager for the proposed opera house on Castle
Terrace. The brief for this project was to create a 1,400-seat theatre for opera and drama, a 250-seat studio theatre, as well as the refurbishment and integration of the existing
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Architects Department was the naming of streets. This led to research—which he continued into retirement—on the origins of Edinburgh place names. This in turn led to the publication in 1996 of his
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Edinburgh history, and published several books and many articles on the subject, including a definitive work on the origins of local place names.
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