Bruntsfield & Beyond

Views from Christ Church Steeple - page 4

	Arthur's Seat 1152 x 864 293K	Salisbury Crags and Arthur's Seat. A much wider view than the David Hume Tower shot on page 2, showing the rooves of Bruntsfield Place, Bruntsfield Gardens and Forbes Road in the foreground.
	Holy Corner Bank 1152 x 864 302K	This view of the junction is from lower down the steeple and shows the roof of the drive-in bank on the right.
	Garden Centre 1152 x 864 379K	Mulhearn and Brotchie are finally closing, to be replaced by a branch of Tesco Metro. The stone villa is to be incorporated into the design. There were several rejected planning applications for other uses for the site.
	Blantyre Terrace 2 1152 x 864 299K	Another, closer look at this row of flats.
	Merchiston View 1152 x 864 340K	The view over Merchiston to the Bathgate Hills. The red shale bings near Broxburn can be seen in the distance (16km) on the right of the picture.
	Holy Corner View 44 1152 x 864 318K	From lower down, a closer look at the south end of Bruntsfield Place - which overlaps the west side of Morningside road by about 50 metres. Edinburgh Cameras used to have shops in Clerk Street and Lothian Road before moving here.
	Roof Repairs 1152 x 864 278K	This is an example of some of the renovation work already done. Down below is the bank car park.
	Holy Corner View 49, Church of Scotland 768 x 1024 244K	The recently renovated roof of this building. The hall is used as a polling station and for book sales and other events. Cars are parked on the left (north) side of Chamberlain Road, and are queueing on the other side to turn left into Morningside Road or cross into Colinton Road.
	Holy Corner to Church Hill 768 x 1024 243K	Morningside Road from the crossroads up to Church Hill Theatre. Greenhill Park leads off to the left half way up.
	Steeple 05 Scaffolding 1152 x 864 262K	Here's how the scaffolding looks with the south west of four pinnacles poking through it. The Braid Hills and Pentland Hills are in the distance.
	Roof detail 1152 x 864 290K	Some parts of the stone work are having to be completely replaced with new stone. This is a closer look at some of the detail.

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Added June 2010: Two pictures from my back window at Holy Corner

	Observatory t2 1280 x 832 218K	The temporary protective structure over the observatory contrasts with the darkening sky beyond.
	Observatory t3 1280 x 850 317K	Same as last picture but zoomed back to show the rainbow.
	Blackford Hill Observ. Temp 1280 x 850 298K	From Views from Arthur's Seat page: A large, white, temporary structure has enveloped the observatory on Blackford Hill. In the sun at the time was Braid Hill. The Pentland Hills are in the distance.