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Dave Henniker Haymarket area page 2
Haymarket area page 1 or page 3 or Haymarket and Dalry Slideshow also Grove Street page
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Obviously the effects of caffeine haven't been enough to extend activity to brushing on some varnish (or paint as with the two adjacent shops). | |
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Morrison St 45 1280 x 893 277K |
Opposite the north end of Grove Street. This later picture appears here for comparison. Copied from Tollcross - Fountainbridge area page 7. (my fuzzy boundaries to blame) |
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Morrison Link connects the West Approach Road with Morrison Street. This circular street branches off the former. | |
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St Mary's Cathedral stands behind the advertising hoardings overlooking the Haymarket junction and train station. | |
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Another view showing part of the colony houses off Dalry Road and the old chimney along Distillery Lane on the south side of the railway line. | |
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Morrison Street is on the other side of these tattered signs. | |
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Inside the gents toilet in Morrison Street. There will be many travelers and football and rugby fans who are glad to make use of the Victorian style facilities. | |
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An odd little building not far from Torphicen Place Police Station. The development opportunity referred to on the sign is larger than is at first apparent... | |
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At the right edge of the grey-painted building, peering over the wall into what's often called a 'hole in the ground' in Edinburgh. (The local baby-boomer generation will remember the old Synod Hall.) | |
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Half way along the wall in Dewar Place Lane. Dewar Place is on the right and Torphicen Street is in front, behind the fence. The tall buildings are in Canning Street. | |
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A closer look. On the right is the red sandstone shell of the former Electricity Board offices. (I once knew someone who lived in a flat occupying this space.) | |
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Stone steps lead down into a former basement. At the back, on the left, is the building which once was Torphicen Street School. | |
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Reconstruction work continues behind the preserved shell of the old Electricity Board. The support girders will be removed once there's a building behind the front facia again. | |
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It's looking good in the sunshine - worth preserving (February 2012). Behind the facade the EICC is visible through a window. | |
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The left end of the building is slightly scaled down and a little different. | |
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Looking directly south towards the junction of Dewar Place, Morrison Street and Gardner's Crescent. On the right, a ramp leads down from Dewar Place Lane to allow lorries and bulldozers in and out. Thousands of cars pass this corner, their drivers oblivious to what lies behind the fence. | |
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The corner of Atholl Place and Torphicen Street as seen by a fisheye lens. | |
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A wee bit round the same corner, further into Torphicen Street. | |
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Looking a bit smarter. June 2011. | |
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At the end of the lane the gates are chained and locked - but that didn't stop two separate women standing on the stone blocks and climbing through the hole in the gate within a minute or two of each other. I looked discreetly away so as not to embarass them. | |
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The east end of this lane as seen from Rosebery Crescent off Haymarket Terrace. | |
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Haymarket Terrace changes its name to West Coates as it reaches the former Donaldson's Hospital / Donaldson's College (school for the deaf) pictured here. | |
| I copied Google Earth's model and made a Fly-Around video for YouTube. It's only 17 sconds long. There is also Donaldsons_00.mp4 (same video) to download or play depending on your browser. It's 2MB. |
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At the Haymarket junction showing the railway station on the right and Ryrie's pub on the left. | |
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A few paces away I used Infra Red to capture this image in front of the disused building at Clifton Terrace overlooking Haymarket. Apart from the weeds flourishing in the cracks, there's evidence of homeless people sleeping at the building's entrance. | |
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The building above as seen from across the road. The weeds have been removed and a sign says Hotel Opportunity. | |
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No prizes for guessing that this is the new route for the tram lines. This is looking back towards Haymarket. | |
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Zooming in shows more of the train station. | |
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The trams will pass to the left of this area, down a slope then parallel to the railway lines. | |
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Looking along the tram route towards Edinburgh Castle in the distance. | |
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Facing west where a new tram bridge over Russell Road will be necessary. | |
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On the north side of the main road out of town are terraced houses and cobbled streets such as Coates Gardens. | |
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Outside Haymarket train station looking towards Shandwick Place and Princes Street in the distance. On the right is Dalry Road, and further away, Morrison Street | |
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It's the 21st of October 2011 and work has begun again on the tramlines. This is the view west from outside Haymarket train station. | |
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The yawning hole in Haymarket Terrace has been filled in. Even this temporary footpath is an improvement, compared to what pedestrians and those waiting at the bus stop used to put up with. | |
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At the end of the straight section seen above, the tram lines make a slight detour south, down the slope to Haymarket Yards where they'll continue parallel to the train tracks towards Russell Road. | |
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This is the view from the same point as Trams 43 above - but looking at the north side of Haymarket Terrace. | |
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Part way down the short slope to Haymarket Yards. | |
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Here the trams will rejoin the train tracks and head towards Russell Road. Dalry on the left has a lot of fairly recent high density housing. Haymarket Yards also has a fairly recent housing development on a smaller scale. | |
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Trams 47 |
Haymarket junction looking north towards Grosvenor Street. |
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The east end of Haymarket Yards looking up to Haymarket Terrace. | |
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Looking across the train tracks towards Dalry. | |
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Trams 50 |
April 2012 and the Haymarket junction is largely a big hole in the ground. Traffic from Dalry Road is diverted up Morrison Street to turn left into Torphicen Place. There are lengthy delays for numerous routes because of even fewer access roads between the A71 and the A8. Dozens of drivers daily try to drive through the former shortcut of Russell Road, closed since September 2011. |
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A wider view. Haymarket train station is to the right, behind the digger machine. West Maitland Street and Morrison Street are at the back on the left of the picture. | |
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Further west along Haymarket Terrace the tram lines curve down the slope at Haymarket Yards before running parallel to the train tracks. | |
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A tighter view of the scene showing rugby fans walking to Murrayfield on 7th April 2012. | |
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This section appears to be complete but it may be some time before trams glide up and down. | |
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A metal skeleton supports the tracks before more concrete is added. | |
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Concreted into place. The rusty surface is unlikely to be shiny for some time. | |
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Further west towards Russell Road I saw this vehicle. I don't think it's the kind where you pump a handle up and down to propel yourself along. | |
Haymarket area page 1 or page 3 or Back to Edinburgh Index or Grove Street page