Ashbrook Salvation Army Hostel history

PAMELA Boyle is looking to find out more about the history of Ashbrook Salvation Army Hostel on Leith Walk. "All I know is the house used to belong to Sir Robert Maule who owned Maules, which is now Frasers on Princes Street," she writes. "I have also heard the building could have possibly been the German embassy during the war?"

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