Views from Museum Roof

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	Museum Roof 4 1280 x 960 246K	Standing at the northwest corner of the Roof Terrace facing southeast. This wide angle picture shows the McEwan Hall's dome at the right hand side.
	Museum Roof 1152 x 864 244K	A view south from the Museum Roof towards the Pentland Hills and the artificial ski slope at Hillend.
	McEwan Hall dome 1280 x 851 202K	Two workmen are patching up the roof of the McEwan Hall.
	South View 1 1152 x 864 174K	Facing south, we can see the Braid Hills on the left, overshadowed by the Pentland Hills behind.
	South View 2 1152 x 864 219K	In this shot, the camera is panned slightly to the right and zoomed in some more. The clock tower of the Royal Infirmary at Lauriston Place dominates the view. Behind a forest of chimneys can be seen the multi-storey flats at Oxgangs.
	S W View 2 1152 x 864 265K	The camera is panned further to the right in this view, more to the south west. Forrest Road is in the foreground, the tiny green patch at the right is Bruntsfield Links. Behind that is Craiglockhart Hill and Torphin Hill.
	Old College 7 671 x 1024 106K	To the east is Edinburgh University Old College (at the other end of Chambers Street). Its dome has this distinctive gold figure at the top.
	Crags 0604a 1152 x 766 164K	The walkers on the crags and the Radical Road give a sense of scale.
	Crags 0604b 1152 x 766 200K	A similar view with the camera panned slightly to the right.
	Crags 0604c 1152 x 766 171K	The summit of Arthur's Seat is visible here, high above Salisbury Crags. Six or seven people are on top of the hill, 251m (822ft ) above sea level.
	S view 7 1280 x 862 195K	To the south is the Quartermile development at the old Royal Infirmary, beyond which are Braid Hill and a rather hazy Caerketton Hill in the Pentlands.
	NW view 6 1280 x 850 296K	Looking north west over the rooftops on the west side of George IV Bridge. The triangular rooftop with the oval windows belongs to Central Library.
	N view 5 1280 x 850 395K	The north view towards St Giles Cathedral. There are men in orange suits and safety harnesses poking about on the rooves of the High Courts at Parliament House, just south of St Giles.
	N view 7 1280 x 850 363K	Two of the orange-suited men are conferring. Another has appeared but he's not wearing high visibility clothing.
	N view 9 1280 x 850 383K	There are five men now, perhaps searching for anything untoward or inappropriate that might affect the business of the courts somehow...
	N view 10 1280 x 827 204K	A wider view showing Saltire flags and the steeple of St Giles Cathedral.
	N view 11 1280 x 721 294K	In this final view of the scene there's a sphinx apparently keeping watch on the workers.
	NW view 7 1280 x 850 273K	The grey pyramid of the Central Library's roof is partly hidden by the steeple of the Augustine United church opposite the Elephant House café near the Frankenstein Pub (a former church).
	N view 12 1280 x 850 424K	The roof of the Crown Office on the north side of Chambers Street looks immaculate.
	N view 13 1280 x 850 311K	The Sheriff Court to the left and rear of the Crown Office is a comparatively recent building at the top of Chambers Street.
	E view 4 1280 x 850 195K	A wider view of Edinburgh University Old College showing the sea and Aberlady Bay in the distance and part of Arthur's Seat on the right.
	SSE view 0 1280 x 850 250K	Looking south-southeast over old and new. Moredun and Ferniehill are in the far distance.
	S view 8 1280 x 850 192K	The roof of the McEwan Hall, now refurbished.

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