William Turnbull; Thomas Wilkie

William Turnbull was born at Ancrum, Roxburghshire, 29 July 1834. On 22 October 1880, he and Thomas Wilkie had been working on the construction of the Medical School for about 2 years. That date found them working on the boiler house chimney and they sealed into the structure, a bottle containing their details, along with some cuttings from The Scotsman . The bottle and its contents were discovered when the chimney was demolished in 1965.

From the guide to the Medical Buildings Time Capsule, 1880, (Edinburgh University Library)