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February 2007 - continuing changes to the New Street site BBC
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Another view from the top of Jacob's Ladder. This sequence of photos taken in February 2007 shows the latest changes at the Calton Road / New Street site. | |
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Virtually all of the site can be seen in this shot. Previous pages show the changes over the last two years. | |
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A closer look at the remains of the Calton Road entrances. | |
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The first floor is being stripped away to reveal the ground floor. At bottom-right the railway bridge conceals Calton Road which it crosses diagonally at the bottom of New Street. | |
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More early construction work is revealed by the archaeologists. Numerous brick arches have been uncovered amidst the rubble. | |
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More detail of the brickwork can be seen in this zoomed-in shot. | |
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A wider view showing the white and blue painted boundary wall at the south side of the site. The sloping entrance from New Street can be seen at the top right of the picture. | |
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Shown for comparison with New Street 38 on page 8. The entrance way, first featured in New Street 10 on page 7 has now been totally demolished. | |
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A different view of the old brick arches in New Street 77 above, as seen from lower down Jacob's Ladder. | |
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A ground level view from Calton Road. In the distance, behind the piles of rubble, can be seen the rear of the buildings at the Canongate (part of the Royal Mile). | |
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Taken from the north side of Calton Road. A few brick pillars and girders are all that remain. | |
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The fence prevents intruders from entering the site. A notice warns of an asbestos hazard. | |
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White tiled bricks form the walls under the railway bridge in Calton Road. A black cab turns left into New Street at the other end. A chiselled inscription informs of the presence of something 24 feet (7.4M) away. | |
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Under the railway bridge where it crosses the bottom of New Street. The front of a disused tunnel has been preserved but has been closed up with this untidy mess of blocks. | |
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Looking east into what remains of the ground floor. Remarkably thin girders support the heavy girders supporting the floor above - but not for much longer. | |
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The last picture in this sequence shows the T-junction of New Street and Calton Road. | |
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Three tiers here looking across the Waverley valley towards East Market Street and Jeffrey Street. | |
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This is how it used to look before the shiny new glass building appeared opposite the Sherlock Holmes statue. This is a large image (scanned negative) and will just fit today's widescreen monitors. | |
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Sherlock Holmes would have observed that the grafitti FYM was done from the roof of an adjacent building, since demolished. | |
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It's the end of September in 2007 and the site is largely clear now. The archaologists have documented what they found. | |
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A look across towards New Street. | |
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A Virgin train passes over Calton Road before entering the tunnel under Jacob's Ladder. |
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A interesting mixture of architecture here: a modern grass-topped building, the diminishing arches along the south side of East Market Street, and the stone-built tenements and '60s concrete office block on Jeffrey Street. | |
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Some wag has drawn a TV set around this hole in the fence. I positioned the camera to snap the old Royal High School up on Regent Road. | |
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One of the piles of rubble, all that remains of the old bus garage. | |
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A curious passer-by leans over the fence to get a better look through the metal grille covering the building's basement. | |
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Three more shots of the arches supporting Jeffrey Street on the south side of East Market Street. | |
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Two traffic wardens pause for a chat up on the Jeffrey Street pavement. | |
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The grey painted doors recede into the distance. | |
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An updated look at this site. Not much has changed in the last six months. |
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