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Dean Village / Belford page 3

Dean Village page 1 or page 2 or Slideshow or Main Edinburgh Index

	Gormley Belford 1280 x 951 489K	Sculptor Antony Gormley created the cast iron figures. Information from BBC News. This is the one nearest Dean Village. There is a path down to this point from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, as well as the riverside paths from Roseburn and Belford Road Bridge.
	Belford Path 1280 x 850 537K	This part of the path heads downstream (east) at the back of Donaldson's and parallel to Douglas Crescent. The Water of Leith is behind the mossy wall on the left.
	Belford buildings 1280 x 850 481KK	Comparatively new blocks of flats overlook the river here.
	Old Building 1280 x 850 461K	A remnant of an old mill building has been preserved.
	Belford Bridge 4 1280 x 974 429K	This footbridge leads across to the Hilton hotel. Compare the water level with this picture!
	Belford Bridge 5 1280 x 850 573K	Before crossing the footbridge I took this picture of the bridge carrying Belford Road across the valley. It connects the Gallery of Modern Art on the left to Dean Village on the right.
	Belford Bridge 6 1280 x 850 550K	After crossing the footbridge the path continues downstream along this wooden walkway which is supported by steel girders where it passes below Belford Road.
	Dean path 1280 x 850 401K	Facing upstream towards Belford from Dean Village direction. The gorge is steep here where the river bends and prone to landslides.
	Dean Village 1280 x 850 382K	The tall tenements of Rothesay Terrace overlook the village.
	Dean V. Bridge 1280 x 850 494K	The same viewpoint but with the camera lowered to show the footbridge. Cross here to continue through Dean Village. If you don't want to continue down to Stockbridge and beyond then you can climb up Bell's Brae to the West End and Princes Street.
	Gormley Statue 1280 x 854 356K	A surreal-looking image. The iron man seems to be gazing across Belford Road at an exhibition by (appropriately) The Surrealists.
	Gormley Statue 2 1280 x 971 364K	The complete statue is here, buried under the pavement.
	Master of the Universe 1280 x 856 421K	Across the road another metal man: 'Master of the Universe' is based on a famous drawing by William Blake, which shows the scientist Isaac Newton. Created by . More information from the National Galleries page.
	Master of the Universe 2 1280 x 854 394K	A side view of Master of the Universe by Eduardo Paolozzi.
	Rothesay Place 1280 x 850 477K	Previously photographed but the ivy was looking rather splendid today at the start of October.
	Rothesay Place 2 1087 x 1080 544K	More conventional perspective than the fisheye shot above.

Dean Village page 1 or Slideshow or page 2 or Main Edinburgh Index

As these pictures are in sequence they're also in the long page Water of Leith.

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