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Dave Henniker Bruntsfield & Beyond
Bruntsfield (2) - Bruntsfield Place etc
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This area used to be quarried for its stone, hence the hollow caused by subsidence. Edinburgh Bicycle have their shop near here. | |
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Generously proportioned stone tenements dominate the Bruntsfield and Marchmont areas. This shopping street is the A702 early on a Sunday morning in March 2000. | |
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On the other side of the street looking the other way. Peckham's is central with the Montpelier next door. | |
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Leading east from Whitehouse Loan to the foot of Marchmont Road, running parallel to Warrender Park Terrace. The trees in the middle distance on the left border Melville Drive, the road which crosses The Meadows. Salisbury Crags can just be seen behind the university buildings near George Square. |
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This smaller path branches off the one above at its bottom end and heads up to Warrender Park Terrace at its junction with Marchmont Road. It was a dull morning but there was a strange quality to the light. | |
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After gale force winds in 2002, the fire brigade were needed to make a building safe in Bruntsfield Place. | |
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Photograph taken opposite the Bruntsfield Hotel looking across towards Bruntsfield Terrace across the park. Maple leaves are scattered across the grass in the autumn sunshine. | |
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Taken from the other side of Bruntsfield Place next to Viewforth Gardens. |
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It's 7.30 on a September morning and the sun has almost burnt off the mist. Alvanley Terrace is in the distance. There's a bench at the highest point (immediately to the right of the tree in the foreground) that's popular with teenagers hanging out after school. | |
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The hollow in the grassy area is a remnant of a stone quarry. The painted shop front on the left is Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative. |
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The Royal Blind Asylum shop at the corner of Gillespie Crescent is no longer there but the building still bears its name in this picture. Bruntsfield Place begins here but the east side of the road is still called Barclay Place until the start of the Bruntsfield Links public park 100 metres up the hill. | |
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May 2005 in Edinburgh was notable for delayed April showers. This view out the back of our house features a rainbow amongst the rooftops and UHF aerials, as well as a seagull perched on a chimney top. |
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Sunsets are a bit of a photographic cliché and normally avoided by yours truly. I made an exception here with this shot from our livingroom window looking towards the Pentland Hills. Allermuir on the left is separated from Capelaw by Howden Glen. | |
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Chimney pots, cupolas and some UHF aerials combine to make this image of rooftops at Mardale Crescent near Napier University at Merchiston. | |
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Three fairly ordinary street views follow. The first is looking across Bruntsfield Place towards Boroughmuirhead Post Office. Merchiston Place is on the left; Montpelier Park leads away from the centre of the picture. | |
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Across the road Merchiston Place leads into the leafy suburb of Merchiston. Merchiston Park and Merchiston Avenue lie just ahead. | |
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Bruntsfield Avenue is the name of this street on the left, at the end of which is Bruntsfield Primary School. Bruntsfield Place continues to the right, heading down past Bruntsfield Links to Tollcross, Lothian Road and Princes Street. | |
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A view up the hill from the part of Bruntsfield Links separated from golfers by Whitehouse Loan. Under the trees on the left is Leamington Walk. The Bruntsfield Hotel is on the right. Ideal Computing is the white shop just beyond the hotel, now part of Best Western. | |
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Previously photographed, an interesting tiled dome between two chimney stacks at the corner of the street called Wright's Houses, near the Golf Tavern. | |
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A couple more shots of this building. You can see the ornate masonry rather well in this picture, as well as Michael Parkinson's likeness at a window, looking out over Bruntsfield Links. | |
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This is the other (westmost) corner on Barclay Place (east side of the bottom of Bruntsfield Place). The long-lens shot shows Edinburgh Castle in the background. | |
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Railings removed for scrap metal for World War 2 were finally replaced only to be smashed into by an out-of-control car. | |
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Thanks to Graeme Houston for this picture of the car wreck. | |
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A crowded image cropped from a long-lens view down to Gillespie Crescent. | |
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Bruntsfield Place - August 2009 on a Tuesday afternoon. Three friends have a coffee and a chat sitting on their first-floor windowsill, taking advantage of the projecting shopfront of the juice bar on the ground floor. | |
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July 2010 and the room above juiced up is currently empty. A sign in the window reads ROOM FOR RENT and gives the phone number - which may be illegible without the benefit of a telephoto lens. The room will have a view over Bruntsfield Links as well as the busy main street. | |
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Bruntsfield Place is peppered with unique shops from its Tollcross end to Morningside. You may even find the odd boutique that's more of an art statement than a shop. Trendy areas often seem to have (presumably loss-making) enterprises run by rich hobbyists. But these ones here are cool. |
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