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Dave Henniker Gorgie, Dalry, Haymarket page 4
Includes Slateford, North Merchiston & more.
Pictures in sequence - starting west from
city centre
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This picture duplicated here as it was the starting point for a photographic meander along Fountainbridge to Angle Park Terrace and beyond. This is a window cleaner dangling above the corner of Lady Lawson Street and the West Port, not far from the Grassmarket. | |
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These pictures are intended to illustrate contrasts in appearance. The images are largely just a record of what caught my eye; they may not necessarily have photographic merit. BT smokers' corner ashtray is less than 3m from entrance! | |
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Something is Coming Soon, that much is evident. Perhaps crossing the road and putting on reading glasses would have made it all perfectly clear... |
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This part of Fountainbridge is rather run-down in parts. The brewery's gone and an air of uncertainty hangs over some areas. This is Gilmore Park which leads up to Leamington Lift Bridge and Bruntsfield. |
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Boarded up windows protect the building against vandals. |
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A leaky drainpipe provides nourishment for vegetation. The 'Wasted' posters' purpose is unclear. They may refer to a state of mind, or they might just be Wasted space. |
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Near the new Springside housing project at the bottom of Viewforth is this portakabin office for students seeking accomodation. It's the same company as in Grove Street. |
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An ultrawide fisheye view of Fountainpark. We saw Avatar in 3D there. |
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400m further west the Fountainbridge main road has changed its name to Dundee Street and again to Angle Park Terrace. Two unusual premises are on either side of Ardmillan Place. I guess you can trade themes here... | |
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A very special paint job on the Childrens MUSIC CENTRE. | |
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Nice to see this old fire station preserved so well and in use for funerals. A railway line used to run behind here but now it's just a footpath and track eventually leading to locked gates at railway land. | |
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A wider view of the old fire station showing where hearses now replace fire engines. | |
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Continuing west it's necessary to cross the top of busy Ardmillan Terrace to reach this overgrown bench at the entrance to North Merchiston Cemetery. Merchiston Townswomen's Guild provided the bench to commemorate their 21st anniversary. | |
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The biggest notice of the four advises readers that North Merchiston Cemetery has been compulsorily acquired. | |
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I've cropped the above image so that you can read the actual text with its bad grammar. The text on the NO DOGS notice is difficult to read for dogs or humans even although it's all in block capitals. | |
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Inside a neglected cemetery you would expect to find old headstones leaning at dizzy angles or pushed over flat for Health & Safety reasons or as acts of malicious vandalism. Beyond the trees is St Michael's Parish Church at 1 Slateford Road. (Patron Saint of Marks & Spencer?) | |
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For reference purposes a look back at the cemetery entrance. The lodge house is behind the hedge on this side of Ardmillan Terrace. Angle Park Terrace is across the junction which includes Slateford Road and Harrison Road (not visible in this picture). | |
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The north boundary wall which separates the burial ground from Gorgie Farm. The name North Merchiston seems wrong somehow as it's sandwiched between Slateford and Gorgie and separated from Merchiston proper. And Merchiston's leafy lanes just ooze proprietry! | |
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Peering over the wall gives this view of Gorgie Farm. Beyond is Gorgie Road and the former Tivoli Cinema to the left of which can be seen the railway separating McLeod Street from Murieston. The 3 arches carry the West Approach Road over Russell Road. | |
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This view over the wall shows the western end of Gorgie Farm. Beyond the Gorgie Road tenements on the left can be seen Heart of Midlothian football ground and the top of Corstorphine Hill. | |
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Zooming in reveals more detail of the railway bridge and the shiny new Tynecastle High School. The old building can be seen on the other side of McLeod Street behind Hearts ticket centre. Flats at Murrayfield's Succoth Avenue are on the horizon beyond the Water of Leith's floodplain. | |
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Another look back towards the cemetery entrance. | |
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Looking over Gorgie Farm's east end toward Springwell House. | |
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Another view of Gorgie Farm. A double decker bus is passing the former Tivoli Cinema and approaching the Ardmill junction. The old Donaldson's School building is in the distance 1km to the north. | |
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Near the west end of the cemetery. The railway line is behind the wall. | |
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The Caledonian Brewery lies over the wall. There's no access and it's necessary to go back to the east end to exit the cemetery grounds. | |
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Low winter sunshine in February lights up the bare trees. | |
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Destruction doubtless done by adolescent males on cheap booze or sniffing solvents. I can't believe that a council workman would knock over such a small cross for Health & Safety reasons. | |
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More flattened tombstones. | |
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An unusual cylindrical stone hewn from granite. Another name was added more recently in 1998. Some intellectually challenged person has broken the top section off. |
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Visitors approaching from the west are directed to City Centre Attractions as they pass by St Michael's Parish Church. | |
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This little tour has returned to the the cemetery entrance before it continues west along Slateford Road. The architecture of this tenement at the top of Ardmillan Terrace is Scottish Baronial. This is the view east along Angle Park Terrace but this journey takes us the opposite way. | |
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On the south side of the main road, opposite the cemetery and west of the church there are some colony type houses with floral names. Violet Terrace and Laurel Terrace are to the left of this car park. At the back is the former railway line behind Harrison Gardens. | |
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Primrose Terrace has this interesting brick building, complete with bricked-up windows. This was Weston's Biscuits factory until it changed to a 'cash and carry'. Thanks for the information to James McDougall from Australia who lived in this area until 1964. |
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Myrtle Terrace is where I spent some time as a young baby, my mother told me. Other local streets are Ivy Terrace and Daisy Terrace. | |
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Here it is again, one of our surviving breweries. The beer is highly recommended. | |
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Caledonian Brewery established in 1869 the metalwork on the red painted gate tells us. | |
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Another view of the gate with the stone fronted cottage on Slateford Road. | |
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Further along Slateford Road there's this view back to the brewery, with the railway lines heading north west to the city centre. Cars are parked in Wardlaw Terrace. | |
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This attractive stone building stands on the north side of Slateford Road on the east side of the suburban railway line. | |
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Just west of the train lines is a more recent housing development called Slateford Green. | |
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This is the interior car-free area of Slateford Green. From the other (Gorgie Road) end it's circular in appearance as the two straight sections can't be seen. Our tour goes north to Gorgie Road before heading back east. | |
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A familiar view to those traveling west along Gorgie Road. Westfield Road on the right leads to Murrayfield Stadium and Stevenson Road. At the far end of the red sandstone city block is the former Pooles Roxy cinema. | |
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600m east along Gorgie Road, now back at the south side of Gorgie Farm. Built into the stonework supporting the rail bridge here is a gents toilet, long since disused. It contrasts with the new school at the back. | |
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At the other side of the bridge there seems to be some uncertainty as to what's going to happen next. These shops seem vacant. | |
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Things are a bit more cheerful across the road at Gorgie Farm. This wall separates the farm from Springwell House. | |
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Back on the north side of Gorgie Road next to the former Tivoli cinema is a cobbled lane leading to Murieston Road. | |
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A view down Murieston Lane which is populated by garage workshops. | |
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East of the junction with Ardmillan Terrace, Henderson Terrace and Murieston Road, Gorgie Road becomes Dalry Road. Murray Donald's shop has been here a long time. I don't know about the other Steven Parry Donald's shop next door - they may be related. | |
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Behind the Sky Internet premises is Murieston Crescent Lane, and behind that is the West Approach Road on the old railway embankment. This road crosses above Dalry Road just to the right of the picture. | |
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On the north east side of the former railway bridge is this block of tenement flats. The second door from the left belongs to a narrow house which was once a small shop. Downfield Place is the street on the right. | |
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About 400m further north east, approaching the gradual descent to the Haymarket junction. This is one of a few little back streets opposite the Caledonian Crescent area. | |
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Back at the city centre now. This view from Morrison Street juxtaposes the old Electricity Board building with the more recent Edinburgh International Conference Centre. End of this sequence. | |
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Watson Crescent is 100m north west from the bottom of Merchiston Avenue and North Merchiston Cemetery is 540m west so it's not really stretching a point - or a neighbourhood to call this block North Merchiston. | |
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Another view showing more of the building. |
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