Cairntows Park 1280 x 851 270K	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.
	White House 05 1280 x 822 239K	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.
	Wauchope Square 1280 x 851 251K	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.
	Niddrie Mains Drive 1152 x 828 210K	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.
	Niddrie 12 1280 x 961 330 K	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.
	Niddrie 14 1280 x 841 251K	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.
	Niddrie 13 1280 x 851 240K	Zooming in reveals the pigeons on the broken roof. Trees now grow up beside the back walls, covering the metal-clad windows.
	Niddrie 15 1280 x 853 293 K	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.
	Niddrie 17 1280 x 851 260K	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.
	Niddrie 17b 1280 x 903 266K	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.
	Niddrie 18 1280 x 851 280K	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.
	Niddrie 20 1280 x 851 395 K	This was once someone's livingroom but is now a garden of weeds.
	Niddrie 21 1280 x 851 306 K	The ubiquitous rosebay willowherb adds a pink splash of colour to the untended greenery at the back of this block of flats and shops.
	Niddrie 22 1280 x 916 279K	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.
	Niddrie 23 1280 x 827 240K	This is the security guard's caravan, seen in the distance in Niddrie 12 earlier on this page.
	Niddrie 24 1280 x 851 215K	The corner of Wauchope Avenue and Wauchope Crescent, previously pictured on page 2.
	Niddrie 25 1280 x 837 277K	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.
	Niddrie 26 803 x 1024 255K	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.
	Niddrie 27 1280 x 851 318K	This is my favourite shot, the row of shops in Wauchope Crescent.
	Niddrie 28 1280 x 833 346K	This business may now finally be closed at the end of July 2006. It was still open quite recently.
	Niddrie 29 1280 x 851 311K	The last view of this row of shops. The nids have left their mark.
	Niddrie 30 1280 x 843 339K	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.
	Niddrie 31 744 x 1024 210K	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.
	Niddrie 32 681 x 1024 221K	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.
	Niddrie 33 1280 x 851 332K	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.
	Niddrie 34 1280 x 837 217K	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.
	Niddrie 35 1280 x 846 284K	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.
	Niddrie 36 1280 x 851 369K	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.
	Niddrie 37 1280 x 957 419K	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.
	Niddrie 38 1280 x 851 355K	A final look back at Niddrie before heading west into Peffer Place.
	Peffer Place 00 681 x 1024 259K	There are some occupied premises here and this quite attractive entrance provides a contrast to the previous scenes of desolation.
	Peffer Place 01 1280 x 904 404K	These brick-built terraced houses are quite unusual for Edinburgh. Judging by the steel shutters, the intention is to preserve them.
	Peffer Place 02 1280 x 851 387K	A closer look at the defences against potential intruders. When the area is regenerated these properties could be quite desirable.
	Peffer Place 03 1280 x 1011 263K	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.
	Duddingston Road W to Peffermill Road 1280 x 851 298K	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.
	Peffer Bank 681 x 1024 239K	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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