Canonmills area

Broughton Street, Scotland Yard, Warriston

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	Scotland Yard 4 680 x 768 168K	The north entrance to the disused tunnel leading to Waverley Station. This is in the Scotland Yard children's playground near Scotland Street. Photo taken on my first digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix 900 with 1.2 Megapixels.
	King George V Memorial Park notice 2008 x 3008 889K	This is a large image left at the camera's native resolution so that you can zoom in to read all the informative text which includes information about the trains and tunnels, as well as a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson's Picturesque Notes about Scotland Street Train Station. There's a map of the park at the bottom of the notice.
	Scotland Yard 8 1295 x 966 394K	This picture was taken 8 years after Scotland Yard 4 but not much has changed.
	Scotland Yard17 1280 x 850 269K	How it looks in 2010.
	Scotland Yard19 1280 x 894 338K	The old tunnel to Waverley Station has been partly opened up and secured with a heavy-duty custom-made gate.
	Scotland Yard18 1280 x 850 269K	A little bit closer in, on the other side of that black painted metal structure.
	Scotland Yard20 1280 x 850 373K	CONFINED SPACE - DO NOT ENTER admonishes the warning notice. The space doesn't look confined - but you can't enter anyway.
	Scotland Yard 12 to Canonmills 1280 x 909 414K	A few yards to the north and the biggest change is the opening of the old railway tunnel under Rodney Street for cyclists, pedestrians and inline skaters. There's now a safe traffic-free route connecting Eyre Place to Tesco at Broughton Road.
	Scotland Yard 14 to Canonmills 1280 x 854 346K	This is a view through the tunnel towards the Canonmills / Tesco end. Paths continue to Goldenacre, Trinity and Leith.
	Scotland Yard 16 from Canonmills 1280 x 854 402K	At the northern end of the tunnel some remedial work has been done in the form of a coating which seems to have been sprayed on.
	Trinity 0 1280 x 850 454K	EAST TRINITY ROAD states the helpful sign at the entrance to the tunnel on this branch of the cycle path network. This first of three variations was at 55mm focal length, a slight zoom over 'normal'.
	Trinity 1 1280 x 853 414K	This view is with a focal length of 18mm = 24mm on a film SLR. Wide angle makes the tunnel look longer despite the standpoint being closer than in the first shot.
	Trinity 2 1280 x 850 395K	24mm = 36mm on a 35mm film SLR, slightly wider than the 'normal' 50mm lens. In the first shot I changed my standpoint to get the sign over the dark tunnel. In this shot I got up close but positioned the sign carefully.
	Broughton Mkt 1024 x 768 161K	Broughton Market psychedelic Style. This little street is at the bottom of Dublin Street. I'm afraid I got rather carried away with the manipulation in Photoshop...
	Broughton Mkt 4 798 x 1024 239K	An updated photo (July 2009) without any effects. Sacro have left the building it seems but the building still looks splendid with its immaculate paint job.
	Broughton St 00 1024 x 768 155K	Looking north down the street from its junction with York Place / Picardy Place. Forth Street is on the right, just past Real Foods. Fife is visible in the far distance, behind the Firth of Forth.
	Broughton St 05 852 x 1024 219K	April 2006 at the top of the street on the east side. A take-away advertises the ultimate non-heath food, the deep fried Mars Bar alongside pizza and kebabs
	Broughton St 01 1024 x 768 150K	The corners of York Lane and Albany Street can be seen here.
	Broughton St 02 1024 x 768 178K	Down at the roundabout at the junction with London Street (on the right) and East London Street (on the left). A wide angle shot showing the flowerbed in Mansfield Place in the foreground, and Leith Street in the distance.
	Broughton St 04 1024 x 768 184K	Zoomed in here to show more detail of Broughton Street. The sky is dominated by the cranes towering over Leith Street where new buildings are being erected between the John Lewis store and Calton Hill.
	Warriston 647 x 768 193K	Perhaps one day the authorities will dig up all the remains of those buried in Warriston Cemetery and sell off the land for housing. I first took photographs here in the mid '70s but this is a more recent picture.
	Canonmills 703 x 768 139K	Looking towards Inverleith Row from the window of a second floor flat. The main road crosses the Water Of Leith, just beyond the clock.
	Canonmills 2 555 x 600 61K	From the same window as the picture above, but facing east along Warriston Road. Alfie and Penny's cat is sleeping at the window.
	Canonmills 3 521 x 768 89K	A similar picture to the one above, but this time with a standard 50mm lens instead of a wide angle one, and taken after dark. The Water Of Leith flows parallel to the road, on its left side.

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Canonmills area

Broughton Street, Scotland Yard, Warriston

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