Bruntsfield & Beyond

Bruntsfield (2) - Bruntsfield Place etc - also new page Bruntsfield Videos

	Links 800 x 600 158K	This area used to be quarried for its stone, hence the hollow caused by subsidence. Edinburgh Bicycle have their shop near here.
	Bruntsfield Place 800 x 600 109K	Generously proportioned stone tenements dominate the Bruntsfield and Marchmont areas. This shopping street is the A702 early on a Sunday morning in March 2000.
	Bruntsfield Place 2	On the other side of the street looking the other way. Peckham's is central with the Montpelier next door.
	Bruntsfield Place Reflected 45 1280 x 850 194K	Reflected in the rear window of this car is the west side of the street between Christchurch and Merchiston Place.
	Leamington Walk 1024 x 768 196K	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.
	Leamington Walk 2 1152 x 864 290K	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.
	Storm Damage 800 x 607 87K	After gale force winds in 2002, the fire brigade were needed to make a building safe in Bruntsfield Place.
	Bruntsfield 12 Terrace 1152 x 864 435K	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.
	Bruntsfield 14 Terrace 1152 x 864 418K	Taken from the other side of Bruntsfield Place next to Viewforth Gardens.
	Bruntsfield Terrace 01 1280 x 726 303K	At lunchtime on sunny days this area at the top of Bruntsfield Links is very busy with local workers and pupils relaxing on the grass. Bruntsfield Terrace is on the left; Bruntsfield Place is behind the trees on the right. A public toilet nestles under the trees.
	Bruntsfield Shops 1280 x 720 291K	Just round the corner from Bruntsfield Terrace, a small sample of some of the specialist shops available in this area.
	Bruntsfield 0509 sun 1152 x 864 217K	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.
	Alvanley Ter 1280 x 850 504K	The hollow in the grassy area is a remnant of a stone quarry. The painted shop front on the left is Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative.
	Warrender Park Road 1080 x 1080 326K	At the corner of Warrender Park Road and Alvanley Terrace there are these two commercial premises sporting low profile paint jobs.
	Bruntsfield 16 Place foot 1152 x 864 203K	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.
	Our view out the back 768 x 1024 92K	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.
	Our view 30 sunset 1280 x 854 73K	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.
	Roof View 31 1152 x 864 302K	Chimney pots, cupolas and some UHF aerials combine to make this image of rooftops at Mardale Crescent near Napier University at Merchiston.
	August View 1280 x 850 124K	Interesting light in the view from our window made me reach for my camera. Looking over Merchiston towards Sighthill.
	August View 2 1280 x 686 96K	A wider view showing oblique shafts of sunlight.
	Bruntsfield A 1280 x 873 335K	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.
	Bruntsfield B 1280 x 945 356K	Across the road Merchiston Place leads into the leafy suburb of Merchiston. Merchiston Park and Merchiston Avenue lie just ahead.
	Bruntsfield C 1280 x 960 385K	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.
	Bruntsfield 32 1280 x 854 355K	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.
	Barclay Place 4 1280 x 893 295K	Between Barclay Church and a filling station is this fine 19th century tenement.
	Barclay Terrace 8 1280 x 890 320K	Previously photographed, an interesting tiled dome between two chimney stacks at the corner of the street called Wright's Houses, near the Golf Tavern.
	Barclay Terrace 9 1280 x 850 297K	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.
	Barclay Terrace and Castle 1280 x 861 288K	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.
	Bashed Railings 1280 x 850 241K	Railings removed for scrap metal for World War 2 were finally replaced only to be smashed into by an out-of-control car.
	Railings Wreck 1280 x 684 230K	Thanks to Graeme Houston for this picture of the car wreck.
	Bruntsfield Pl 33 1280 x 652 260K	A crowded image cropped from a long-lens view down to Gillespie Crescent.
	Juiced Up '09 1002 x 1024 214K	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.
	Juiced Up '10 1280 x 916 243K	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.
	Bruntsfield Pl 35 1280 x 857 295K	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.
	Pope 05 1215 x 1080 415K	The Pope came to Bruntsfield on the 16th of September 2010. This was the start of the motorcade as it passed my window.
	Pope 07 1280 x 896 242K	Cardinal O'Brien could be indicating some of the interesting shops opposite Howies Restaurant.
	Pope 08 1280 x 878 191K	Zoomed in a bit on the popemobile.
	Pope 09 1280 x 950 304K	The popemobile passengers need have no fear of toddlers in pushchairs thanks to metal barriers and the vigilant police.
	Pope 10 966 x 1080 268K	Some heavy duty hardware to have on your RV's roof-rack. Makes Google StreetView cameras look like point-and-shoot. I reckon this was beaming live TV to my screen - this and that noisy helicopter that hung about for ages.
	Pope 12 1280 x 1047 298K	About to turn left into Chamberlain Road, the Pope waves to crowds at Holy Corner outside the bank next to Tesco and Christ Church. The next picture is one I prepared earlier. I was on the scaffolding on the church steeple.
	Chamberlain Road 1152 x 864 348K	This street heads directly east from Holy corner. On the right, partially obscured by one of the scaffold's planks, is the southern end of the Eric Liddell Centre. Directly below is the Church of Scotland Morningside United at 15 Chamberlain Road. This road leads through leafy suburbs to Strathearn Place and the Grange.
	Destination 800 x 600 78K	An early picture I took of St Bennet's, the Pope's destination and Cardinal O'Brien's home.
	St Bennet's 1024 x 768 268K	Two photos taken in February 2002.
	St Bennet's 01 1024 x 768 1808K	The winter sunshine picks out surface detail on the green copper dome.
	Bruntsfield Links 1280 x 720 367K	Looking up Leamington Walk across Bruntsfield Links. There is a large version 1920 x 1080 pixels 645K in size, suitabled for widescreen wallpaper.
	Vintage Car 1280 x 931 236K	More conventional than the pope-mobile but pleasantly different to modern cars. Parked in Bruntsfield Place. A chance photograph from my window.
	Bruntsfield Place 1280 x 735 266K	Interesting shops at the bottom stretch of Bruntsfield Place near the Whitehouse Loan junction.
	Bruntsfield Pl 48 1280 x 842 293K	September 2011 view of the main road. Bruntsfield Gardens is on the left.The road curves to the left where the bus is and approaches Holy Corner junction.
	Bruntsfield Pl 49 1280 x 1054 353K	A closer look at the same corner.
	Scattered Skips 1280 x 827 236K	3rd of January 2012 and severe gales blew the rubbish skips across the road.