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Edinburgh
Leith, Portobello, Newhaven, ...
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This site looks at some of the residents of
Arden Street,
Marchmont, Edinburgh, in the early 20th century, including:
- No 46: until 2004, the Edinburgh
photographer,
E R Yerbury.
- No 55: jeweller and postcard
publisher,
Alphonse Louis
Reis.
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2.
Caltongate
A NEW LINK
Proposed
development
by
Mountgrange for the Waverley
Valley to the north of the Canongate, including the former New
Street bus depot.
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Caltongate -
Opposition
A NEW LINK
This web site gives details
of the
SOOT (Save Our Old Town)
campaign against Mountgrange's proposed developments for the Waverley
Valley.
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The
Cockburn Association was established in 1875. It still
continues to campaign on planning, transport and architectural issues in
Edinburgh.
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This site has attractive sketches of some
of Edinburgh's buildings. Several of the buildings on the
Edinburgh Architecture web site also appear in photographs and
engravings on this EdinPhoto web site.
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6. Edinburgh City Libraries
- Edinburgh Room
The Edinburgh Room at Edinburgh
Central Library, George IV Bridge, has a
wide range of books, Post Office Directories, old maps and other reference material
on Edinburgh.
The Edinburgh Room also has an
extensive collection of photographs, watercolours, drawings and
engravings, many of which are now
included on the
Capital Collections web site.
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7.
Edinburgh
Camera Shop
This is the
current web
site of Edinburgh Camera Shop. The web site was recently
established [2004];
though the company was originally set up to take over the business of George
George
Morrison, so can trace its links back to 1912.
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8.
Edinburgh
Cinemas and Theatres
This
web site by Gordon Barr gives brief details and
photographs of many of the cinemas and theatres of Edinburgh. His
site includes cinemas and theatres that are still in operation and many
that are no longer operating.
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9. Edinburgh
Film Focus
This site has been created to support people
working on feature films, documentaries, adverts, etc. in Edinburgh, the
Lothians and the Scottish Borders.
The
EdinFilm web site
has an impressive collection of images of Edinburgh and surrounding area,
with the option to search for images by category of subject.
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Edinburgh Fire - Dec 2002
- Competition for Redevelopment
A fire broke out in the Old
Town of Edinburgh in December 2002. I have received some e-mails and
there have been comments in the
Guest Book asking about
it. I have included a few
photographs on this web site.
Here is a link to a
website that has
been created to allow architects, design students and the public to enter a competition. This is an unofficial
competition looking for ideas of how the site at South Bridge
/ Cowgate destroyed by fire
might be redeveloped.
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This
site includes photographs taken in several of
Edinburgh's graveyards.
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I've found 'History and
Derivation of Edinburgh Street Names',
(Publ. Edinburgh Corporation
City Engineers Dept)
to be a good reference book.
The
content of the book can now be found this
web site.
The street names are listed in two parts:
- streets named
up to 1920
researched by Charles B Boog Watson
- streets named
after 1920
compiled by Edinburgh City Engineers Dept.
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This is a
3-minute film
about Edinburgh, based on Woody Allan's film, Manhattan. You
may find it amusing.
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This
Yeo Society
web site includes a page on
John
Shapland Yeo, after whom the Yeo Pavilion at Fettes College was named.
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Here is an old photo of Main
Street, Gilmerton, taken in the days when it was a separate village,
rather than a suburb of Edinburgh. The photograph is on the web site
of South Edinburgh Community Network.
Gilmerton lies about 4 miles
to the south-east of the centre of Edinburgh.
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This web site was set up in
June 2007 by Andrew Hall to keep alive memories of the trawling industry
that was once based at Granton Harbour, Edinburgh.
Andrew now lives in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, but is still keen to hear more stories about trawling
from Granton.
The site includes:
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This
web page gives a potted
history of J Hewit & Sons. The company operates a tannery at Currie,
about 5 miles SW of the centre of Edinburgh.
This is one of the places that
I visited for my photographic project, documenting
'People at Work in Edinburgh'.
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This page from the
Merchant
Navy Officers'
web site gives details and a photograph of the training ship 'T.S.
Dolphin' that was based in Leith Docks for many years.
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This
Leith History site,
run by John Arthur, a local historian from Leith. The site includes:
- articles on many
aspects of Leith. Several articles have been archived each month
since December 2003.
- links to many other web sites all relating to
Leith and its history. See the 'General' list on the home page.
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John was born in Leith in 1934 and attended
Dr Bell's school.
On this
'Old
Leither' web site, John Stewart records:
-
his memories
of growing up in Leith up to the mid-1950s.
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other people's
memories of Leith
- more about Leith: a
pot pourri
and
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Liberton lies about three
miles to the south east of the centre of Edinburgh. Here are 12 old photos of
Liberton, taken in the days when it was a separate village rather than a
suburb of Edinburgh. These photos include Liberton Crossroads, Liberton Kirk, Cameron Toll, Old
Dalkeith Road, Gilmerton Road and Double Hedges Road, and a map of the
area.
These photographs are on the web
site of Edinburgh Business School at Heriot Watt University.
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This site has links to
many historic maps of Edinburgh and elsewhere from the large
collection of the National Library of Scotland's map room.
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This web site looks
back on the history of
Newhaven
on the Firth of Forth, about three miles to the north of Edinburgh,
with its harbour, fishmarket and fishwives.
The site includes photographs, a
surname search, memories and stories and a guest book.
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24.
Old & New
Edinburgh
UPDATED
James Grant's book 'Old & New Edinburgh' is now usually found in
3, or occasionally 6, bound volumes. It was originally issued in weekly
installments, around 1890, published by Cassell & Co.
Hamish Horsburgh and Peter Gerard have now made the six-volume set
available on a web site designed primarily to enable school
children and students to download images and text, and to discover more
about the architecture, history and people of Edinburgh.
The ability to search the text of these books for key words, on line,
should be very helpful.
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25.
Old Edinburgh Club
The Old Edinburgh Club is a local history society.
It was established in the early 1900s, when Edinburgh Photographic
Society's Survey Section was busy making a photographic record of
'vanishing Edinburgh'.
The Old Edinburgh Club
web site
gives details of the club's lectures, visits, publications and
membership. It has links to other Edinburgh web sites and a list
of books about the history of photography.
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26.
One
o'clock Gun
This site gives a brief illustrated history of
Edinburgh's time ball at the Nelson Monument on Calton Hill and the
One o'clock Gun
at Edinburgh Castle.
The site is provided in association with the One o'clock
Gun Association which was formed in 1998 to set up a gun museum at
Edinburgh Castle
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27.
Portobello Local History
On this web site, Edinburgh
City Libraries give details so some of the statues and monuments in and
around Portobello, including the Miller Mausoleum, otherwise known as
the
Craigentinny Marbles.
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This community web site
run by Bob Jefferson. It includes:
- details of forthcoming events in Portobello
- full text from past editions, from 2001 onwards, of the
local community newspaper, The Portobello Reporter.
- photo galleries, including many photos taken at the beach
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This site from the Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historic Monuments of Scotland
has a collection of
photographs of buildings around Scotland, including Edinburgh.
The RCAHMS also has a collection of aerial photos that can be seen by
appointment.
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This site includes news of
the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and its history. The site is
illustrated with a gallery of photographs.
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This web site set up in 2001-02 by St Ann's Reminiscences Group to
record their memories of life many years ago, in and around St Ann's
School, Cowgate in the Old Town of Edinburgh. |
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Scottish
Cinemas
A
NEW LINK
This site has pictures of
cinemas throughout Scotland, including pages for
Edinburgh, Leith and
Portobello
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This
site may be slow to load, but it is worth the wait! It has links
to other sites with Scottish themes, particularly the strange and
unusual.
It
includes many Edinburgh subjects - Scott Monument, St Bernard's Well,
Time Gun, Diorama, Edinburgh Exhibitions, Portobello, etc.
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This page on the South
Edinburgh Community Network site includes an account of the old village
of Gilmerton, about 4 miles to the SE of the centre of Edinburgh,
together with an old photograph of Main Street,
Gilmerton.
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The
Streets of Edinburgh web site has recent black and white
photographs of over 700 of Edinburgh's 5,000 streets. The photos,
taken by Jim Denniston, cover many districts of Edinburgh; not just the
tourist areas. Jim says:
"It is not my intention to pass
comment on the content of any of the pictures in these pages, regardless
of how beautiful or ugly they appear or how historically important or
unimportant they may be. They are just pictures of how the streets
appeared at the moment I turned up with my camera." |
The
Talk Porty web site includes a
forum on Portobello local history and also many postcards of Portobello,
most taken from the the collection of Margeorie Mekie, Portobello
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This site includes a
brief history of Trinity School, and includes a couple of early
photographs from the school:
- pupils in 1900
- staff in 1904
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This web site has been set up on behalf of Canongate Community Forum.
It gives details of their Save Our
Old Town campaign against the proposed Caltongate
developments for the
Waverley Valley. The valley lies between the Canongate (part
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XYZ
Digital Map Co
- aerial maps and posters of Edinburgh
The company has produced a book and posters of aerial
views of Edinburgh. These provide interesting comparisons to the
early maps of Edinburgh. The road lay-out of both the New Town and
Old Town of Edinburgh has hardly changed since the early days of
photography.
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