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Location - Answer
1.
Thank you to Billy McDonald
for identifying the scene and providing the comments below:
"I think I have correctly identified the
photograph 'Roadworks 1' from the where is it section of your site.
I think it is Corstorphine Road looking west from the junction with
Traquhair park east and as I live in the Corstorphine area I decided to
take a walk along there to see for myself.
I can confirm that the two buildings in the
photograph and also the wall are all still there. Right opposite the
Post house hotel and alongside the Struan hotel."
2.
Thank you also to Douglas Beath of Burnie, Tasmania, Australia for confirming the location to be near
the zoo at Corstorphine. Douglas added:
"The railway-looking billboards would
have belonged to nearby
Pinkhill Station, and the lost front gardens were a consequence of
road widening for electric tramway extension. Also the
overhead wire feeder point would have been from the inter-suburban cable
from Robertson Avenue substation. DLG Hunter's book
p.188 enables us to date the photo at c.1923. Incidentally DLG
lived nearby, on the slope west of the zoo.
Also,
the obviously newly-built wall was of the pattern for road-widening of the
time : you can see the same in Ferry Road from Arboretum Road to Crewe
Toll from the widening work ready for the never-finished 1939 tramway
extension."
- Peter Stubbs |
