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Dave Henniker Edinburgh East Page 4
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This area next to the railway line at Peffermill Road has new flats (apartment buildings) on the site of the old brewery. They look quite smart from the road and those at the back will have fine views across Prestonfield Golf Course to Arthur's Seat. This footpath in adjacent Cairntows park leads to Duddingston Road West. | ||
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This building is listed for preservation but is decaying due to the ravages of time and nids. The previous black and white picture was taken in March 2002. | ||
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Looking west along what remains of Wauchope Square. A solitary seagull sits on top of a concrete lamppost, the only type of structure still standing here. The road leading off the right is Hay Terrace. | ||
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One or two homes are still occupied but most of the windows are sealed with heavy metal shutters. This mother and children were the only souls I saw in my wanderings lasting an hour and 20 minutes. | ||
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Signs of life here include a car in Niddrie Mains Drive and a caravan in Wauchope Avenue. The caravan is used by security guards. Despite the paucity of people, the grass is kept short. Britain's hottest July ever (global warming) has turned it a bit brown. | ||
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This building has been only partly demolished and now houses a vast population of pigeons. The interior is probably not a pleasant place for a person to venture. Some interior walls are exposed and the ground floor has TOLERANCE neatly stencilled above the fireplace in big black letters. | ||
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Zooming in reveals the pigeons on the broken roof. Trees now grow up beside the back walls, covering the metal-clad windows. | ||
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One or two families must be waiting to be rehoused before demolition / reconstruction can proceed. The red colour of the blocked-off windows contrasts starkly with the dirty beige walls. | ||
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YNT have left their mark here at the roadside. YNT stands for Young Niddrie Team and their clumsy scrawls have been around for years. There's never been an Old Niddrie Team, maybe because they went on to better things. | ||
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The distinctive shape of Arthur's Seat shows that this is indeed Edinburgh. Nether Hill (on the right) is where the views of Niddrie were taken from on Edinburgh East page 1. | ||
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A surreal landscape covering a large empty part of the city of Edinburgh. With property prices rising, this situation will not last. The old Craigmillar Primary School is in the distance at the right. | ||
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This was once someone's livingroom but is now a garden of weeds. | ||
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The ubiquitous rosebay willowherb adds a pink splash of colour to the untended greenery at the back of this block of flats and shops. | ||
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The same building as Niddrie 21 but seen from the other side. The pillar box is at the south west corner of the Niddrie Mains Road / Wauchope Avenue crossroads. | ||
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This is the security guard's caravan, seen in the distance in Niddrie 12 earlier on this page. | ||
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The corner of Wauchope Avenue and Wauchope Crescent, previously pictured on page 2. | ||
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Womanzone still occupy the top flat here. There are burglar alarms on the wall, as well as their big sign and some colourful decorations lower down. | ||
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My beatiful launderette revisited. Pictures on page 2 of this section showed how it looked a year or two previously. These images are likely to be the last ones by me. | ||
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This is my favourite shot, the row of shops in Wauchope Crescent. | ||
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This business may now finally be closed at the end of July 2006. It was still open quite recently. | ||
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The last view of this row of shops. The nids have left their mark. | ||
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Returning to the building last seen above in Niddrie 22. The right hand side has TOLERANCE stencilled on it and the roof space is a pigeon loft. At the front there are two shops and the entrance to 21 Niddrie Mains Drive. A sign on the shop on the right may be over-optimistic. | ||
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Judging by the smoke damage the fire went right up the building. The hole in the roof which lets the pigeons in and out may have been caused by the fire. If the shop ever does open up again it's unlikely to have crowds of Edinburgh shoppers flocking to its fire sale. | ||
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Rust Never Sleeps. That was the title of a Neil Young album and likely a slogan for some anti-rust product. Some grass germinated here and took root at the rusty metal door but the recent heatwave has killed it off. The bush sprouting up on the left has got deeper roots and is still green. Two sturdy padlocks secure the door, presumably to protect felonious adolescent males from killing themselves. | ||
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This is a former chip shop which probably did rather well in the days before this was a ghost town. A high proportion of the shops in nearby Niddrie Mains Road sell take-away food. | ||
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Further west on Niddrie Mains Drive looking back along to the Wauchope Avenue Crossroads. Windblown seeds find the cracks in the pavement and there's nobody to walk on the weeds that sprout out of the tarmac. | ||
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An IRN-BRU vending machine lies smashed on Harewood road near its junction with Harewood Drive. It was probably stolen then brought here to have its money and cans of IRN-BRU removed by brute force. The perpetrators must have been thirsty or in need of cash. | ||
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The vacant lots have been mown but cleaning the gutters of weeds is too labour intensive. A lorry at the other end of Harewood Crescent is the only sign of activity. | ||
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Harewood Road connects to Peffer Place but the road is barricaded to vehicles here. Local people have left these flowers and toys here to commemorate an abandoned newborn baby found near this spot. | ||
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A final look back at Niddrie before heading west into Peffer Place. | ||
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There are some occupied premises here and this quite attractive entrance provides a contrast to the previous scenes of desolation. | ||
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These brick-built terraced houses are quite unusual for Edinburgh. Judging by the steel shutters, the intention is to preserve them. | ||
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A closer look at the defences against potential intruders. When the area is regenerated these properties could be quite desirable. | ||
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If you travel along Duddingston Road West you'll notice this block of tenement flats at the junction of Peffer Street and Peffer Place just south of the bridge over the railway. Their only unusual feature is their distance from similar blocks of flats. | ||
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Just north of the suburban railway line, looking southwest towards Peffermill Road which crosses over the train tracks near the two tower blocks. The Pentland Hills are in the distance. There's an industrial estate called King's Haugh on the right, accessible from Peffermill Road. | ||
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The former industrial area is now home to some small businesses. It's good to see some of these old stone buildings being preserved. | ||
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