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Dave Henniker Gorgie, Dalry, Haymarket page 3
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iQ Student accommodation coming soon. proclaims the sign. The lower case i in iQ is presumably a fashion trend rather than a typo. Intelligence Quotient may not be the intended meaning of the pair of letters. | |
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It seems like this isolated tenement is being refurbished whilst new buildings are erected round about it. The student population in this locality will soon increase significantly. Pricing will determine if flat-seekers will move here from Marchmont and other popular areas. | |
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A full frontal view of the tenement. The stonework looks in good repair and the windows seem quite new. Even the drainpipe has a new coat of paint. | |
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Further north along Grove Street and there's still a view of Rosemount Buildings behind the yellow crane. Marco's establishment is long gone now. | |
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The view south along the road to Fountainbridge at the far end. The banner on the hoarding gives a web address whose six letters resemble a highly compressed version of the company's mission statement. | |
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Riveted girders support the bridge over the Western Approach Road. Behind the site, Rosebank Cottages and Rosemount Buildings will soon lose their evening sunshine and their (in most cases) recently acquired view to the west. | |
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At the other end of the bridge looking north east. Behind the next bridge at Gardner's Crescent is the squat cylinder of Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The Western Approach Road passes through the financial district before ending at Lothian Road. | |
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The tiny, wedge-shaped house on the edge of the former railway bridge. The balcony should afford fine views over the Western Approach Road. | |
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Diagonally opposite and sharing similar geometry, exaggerated by a wide angle lens. | |
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Not a very cheerful prospect but the area is undergoing some change with a new Tynecastle High School being built. | |
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Adjacent to Gorgie Farm is this establishment, nestling under the railway bridge at the top of McLeod Street. | |
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Originally a picture house, then a bingo hall, it's currently some sort of church. | |
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270m further west, opposite Wheatfield Street is this trio of shops. | |
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Sandwiched between a normal size tenement building and a smaller one is this little shop which has been a hairdresser's and a billiards hall - though probably not at the same time. | |
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Obviously the effects of caffeine haven't been enough to extend activity to brushing on some varnish (or paint as with the two adjacent shops). | |
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Morrison Link connects the West Approach Road with Morrison Street. This circular street branches off the former. | |
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St Mary's Cathedral stands behind the advertising hoardings overlooking the Haymarket junction and train station. | |
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Another view showing part of the colony houses off Dalry Road and the old chimney along Distillery Lane on the south side of the railway line. | |
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Morrison Street is on the other side of these tattered signs. | |
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Inside the gents toilet in Morrison Street. There will be many travelers and football and rugby fans who are glad to make use of the Victorian style facilities. | |
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An odd little building not far from Torphicen Place Police Station. The development opportunity referred to on the sign is larger than is at first apparent... | |
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At the right edge of the grey-painted building, peering over the wall into what's often called a 'hole in the ground' in Edinburgh. (The local baby-boomer generation will remember the old Synod Hall.) | |
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Half way along the wall in Dewar Place Lane. Dewar Place is on the right and Torphicen Street is in front, behind the fence. The tall buildings are in Canning Street. | |
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A closer look. On the right is the red sandstone shell of the former Electricity Board offices. (I once knew someone who lived in a flat occupying this space.) | |
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Stone steps lead down into a former basement. At the back, on the left, is the building which once was Torphicen Street School. | |
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Reconstruction work continues behind the preserved shell of the old Electricity Board. The support girders will be removed once there's a building behind the front facia again. | |
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Looking directly south towards the junction of Dewar Place, Morrison Street and Gardner's Crescent. On the right, a ramp leads down from Dewar Place Lane to allow lorries and bulldozers in and out. Thousands of cars pass this corner, their drivers oblivious to what lies behind the fence. | |
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The corner of Atholl Place and Torphicen Street as seen by a fisheye lens. | |
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A wee bit round the same corner, further into Torphicen Street. | |
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At the end of the lane the gates are chained and locked - but that didn't stop two separate women standing on the stone blocks and climbing through the hole in the gate within a minute or two of each other. I looked discreetly away so as not to embarass them. | |
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The east end of this lane as seen from Rosebery Crescent off Haymarket Terrace. | |
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Haymarket Terrace changes its name to West Coates as it reaches the former Donaldson's Hospital / Donaldson's College (school for the deaf) pictured here. | |
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At the Haymarket junction showing the railway station on the right and Ryrie's pub on the left. | |
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A few paces away I used Infra Red to capture this image in front of the disused building at Clifton Terrace overlooking Haymarket. Apart from the weeds flourishing in the cracks, there's evidence of homeless people sleeping at the building's entrance. |
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