Calton page 1

Calton, Greenside, York Place, Waterloo Place

Arthur's Seat,
Salisbury Crags
& Calton Road
657 x 1024
141K

Taken using Infra Red film. Photographed from Regent Road near the top of the steps known as Jacob's Ladder. Calton Road is down below and Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags are in the distance, behind some smoky chimneys near the bottom of the Royal Mile.

(new larger scan June '05)

caltlei_small.jpg (1998 bytes)

Calton Rd /
Leith Street
800 x 604
96K

 It still looks pretty much the same now, except that there would be more people around.
calton-rd_wa0_small.JPG (1698 bytes) Bridge wide A
1024 x 701
154K		 An ultra-wide shot of Waterloo Place over Calton Road. (17mm lens)
caltonrd2fish_i_small.JPG (1903 bytes) Bridge fisheye
636 x 496
60K		 A fisheye-lens shot of Waterloo Place over Calton Road.
calton_hill_cbls_small.JPG (3015 bytes) Cobbles
611 x 768
189K		 Looking down towards Calton Road and Leith Street, near the pedestrian bridge over to the St James Centre.
calton_hill1.jpg (96886 bytes) Calton Hill
648 x 1024
179K		 Taken from the same place as the picture above but facing the opposite direction. Re-scanned in 2005.

This is the street called Calton Hill which leads up the actual hill itself.
old_st_a_small.JPG (2232 bytes) St Andrew's
640 x 478
99K		 Old St Andrew's House is visible in this shot from near Rock House on Calton Hill.
greenside_carpark.jpg (120444 bytes) Greenside
1024 x 680
118K		 Between Calton Hill and Leith Street is this carpark which, in the 21st century, is finally going to have something built on top of it.
Greenside, York Place
1280 x 819
302K

In the '60s there was a city block here, demolished to create this grassed-over traffic roundabout. The city paid lots of our money to some Italian dude to get the 'sculpture' erected on the grass. It had coloured fluorescent lights which were supposed to create synchronised patterns depending on how fast the anemometer on top turned. I saw it working one time. Mostly it didn't.

The grassy slope on the right is currently a glass-fronted entertainment complex. The Playhouse theatre lies just beyond. The pavements have changed here as has the roundabout and the road layout. There is now a statue of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes here, at the end of York Place. More early pictures on next page.

Page 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 or back to Ed Central Index