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Photos and Memories of Edinburgh

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Newhaven

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Leith

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Granton

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Photos and Memories of Edinburgh

Talk to

Newhaven Community

History Group

19 November 2013

Photos and Recollections of

Granton

- Maps and Aerial Views

- Old Engravings

- Early Photos

- Photos of Transport

- Postcards

- Recent Photos - Edinburgh at Work

- Recent Photos - Streets + Harbour

GRANTON

Maps
and Aerial Views

Maps and Plans

Early Plans for a Harbour at Granton

Several proposals were made in the early-19th century to build a harbour on the Duke of Buccleuch's land at Granton.

1.

Here is a proposal from 1834, not very different in design, but considerably smaller than the harbour that was actually built a few years later.

This plan also shows proposals for railways:

- one to the east, through a tunnel, to Leith.

- one to the south to link with the Union Canal at Fountainbridge

1834 Plan

One of several proposals to build a harbour at Granton

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Buccleuch Estates and to Argyll Publishing
2.

My favourite proposal was one named 'Granton Made Magnificent' (Register House Plan RHP9477) drawn up possibly around 1830.
It includes the following, all marked out on the plan:
- Eastern Harbour, Western Harbour, 2 inner docks, 2 outer docks, 2 further docks.
- Naval Yard with Powder Store, Naval Barracks, Naval Warehouse and Naval Hospital.
- Railway Station with railways to Queensferry and Cramond, Leith and Edinburgh
- Canal Basin linked to the Union Canal at Fountainbridge and a Coach Stand
- Markets for Flesh, Poultry, Fish, Vegetable, Fruit, Produce and Coal.
- Town Hall, Bank, Counting Houses, Custom House, Consulate Offices
- Post Office, Shipping Offices, Shops and Arcade.
- Bonded Warehouses, Storehouses, Timber Stores, Preserving Works and Sawmill.
- Grazing Parks, Stables, Horse Bazaar and Abattoir.
- Bakeries, Barmeries, Breweries, and other Manufactories
- Hotels, Inns, Taverns, Coffee Houses, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class Dwelling Houses
- Six Lighthouses, an Ornamental Fountain with Rude Light in the centre.
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Granton Harbour
This is a plan showing the harbour that was built at Granton.
- The Act of Parliament to build Granton Harbour received Royal Assent from King William IV on April 21, 1837

- Work began on building the harbour almost immediately.

- The first part of the harbour, Middle Pier, opened on Queen Victoria's Coronation Day, June 28, 1838.

- Queen Victoria visited the harbour on September 1, 1842.

- This plan, shows the harbour as it was in 1937, including the slipways, jetties and wharfs.
- The plan also shows the position of the railway lines and gives details of the cranes in use in the harbour.

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Buccleuch Estates and to Argyll Publishing

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Aerial Views

Here are four aerial views:, looking down on:

1. Granton Harbour: early-1970s

2. Granton Harbour: early-1970s - with key

3. Granton Middle Pier: Around 1978

4. Granton Harbour, Gas Works and Housing: 2001

1.

Early-1970s

Aerial View

© Reproduced by courtesy of Scotsman Publications.   Click here for web site details.
2.

Early-1970s

Aerial View with key

© Reproduced by courtesy of Scotsman Publications.   Click here for web site details.
3.

Around
1978

Aerial View of the end of Middle Pier, Granton Harbour

Reproduced with acknowledgement to John Dinwoodie, Granton, Edinburgh.                      © Robb & Campbell Harper Studios Ltd
4.

2001

Granton Gas Works, Harbour and Housing

Industry vanishing - Granton Western Harbour now partly infilled

© Copyright: XYZ Digital Map Company Limited. Click here for details of web site.

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Here we look at some recent proposed developments for Granton Waterfront:

5. Forthside Proposals (2005): Granton Harbour

6. Waterfront Proposals (2001): Granton + surrounding area

7. Waterfront Proposals (2001): Granton - boundaries

8. Waterfront Proposals (2001): Granton - landmarks

Here are Forth Ports' plans for the development of Granton Harbour, published in 2005 as part of their Forthside Master Plan for the waterside at Granton and Leith.

To date, very little of this land has been developed.

5.

Proposals (2005)

Forth Ports' Plans for development of Granton Harbour

© Forth Ports PLC                                                                See web site www.forthports.co.uk for fuller details of the Masterplan.

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6.

Proposals (2001)

Waterfront at Granton and surrounding area

© Copyright: XYZ Digital Map Company Limited. Click here for details of web site.

7.

Proposals (2001)

Waterfront at Granton - Boundary Roads + Gypsy Brae

© Copyright: XYZ Digital Map Company Limited. Click here for details of web site.

8.

Proposals (2001)

Waterfront at Granton - Landmakrs

Edinburgh Waterfront - Aerial Photograph - 2001

Since the proposals for development of the Waterfront (above) were drawn up in 2001:

- 2 of the 3 gasholders at Granton Gasworks have been demolished.

- a new Forthquarter Park has been created to the south of the gasholders.

- new developments have been built for:

- Edinburgh's Telford College

- Morrison's Supermarket and Petrol Station

- Scottish Gas HQ

- housing, but only a small proportion of what was envisaged has been built.

- a new road, Waterfront Avenue has been built between the new Scottish Gas HQ and the old lighthouse on West Harbour Road.

- Waterfront Avenue has been landscaped for trams, but the proposals to run trams to Granton seem unlikely to proceed in the foreseeable future.

- The slow pace of progress has been caused partly by the recession.

- The owners of the Waterfront land, Forth Ports PLC have been taken over. The new owners appear to have also taken an interest in developments other than housing: in particular, further industrial developments at Leith Harbour.

GRANTON

Old Engravings

Cassel's
'Old & New Edinburgh'

Here is an engraving from Cassel's 'Old & New Edinburgh'. It has been hand coloured Here is one of he engravings from the book. It has been hand coloured

Published
1890

Granton Harbour

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Cassel's
'Old & New Edinburgh'

Here is an engraving from Cassel's 'Old & New Edinburgh'. It has been hand coloured.

Published
1890

Granton Harbour

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Illustrated London News

1860

Railway Accident on the embankment to the east of Granton Harbour

Illustratred London News

"On Sunday se'nnight, an accident of a melancholy nature occurred between Trinity and Granton, on the line of the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway, by which four lives were lost and five or six persons seriously injured.

The ordinary Sunday evening passenger-train leaves Edinburgh at 4.30pm. The accident occurred to the engine and tender while they were returning to the Locomotive station at Scotland-street, after having safely conveyed the passenger-train to Granton.

There were on the engine and tender at the time of the accident six persons - namely David Mathieson, the engine-driver; John McKenzie Mathieson, the engine driver's son, a boy of about eight years of age; John McKenzie, a brother-in-law of the engine-driver; Andrew Morgan, a pointsman in Scotland Street Station; James Bolan, the stoker; and George Dall, a railway porter.

London Illustrated News: July 21, 1860, p.70

GRANTON

Early Photos

Granton Harbour

This must be one of the earliest photos of Granton Harbour. It was taken by Thomas Vernon Begbie in the late-1850s

Late-1850s

A Dredger at Granton Harbour