History of Photography in Edinburgh

1

Introduction

Page 1

2

Early History

Page 2

3

Cameras + Photos

Page 3

4

Societies

Page 4

5

Photographers

Page 5

5.

History of Photography in Edinburgh

Talk  at

Old Edinburgh Club

13 November  2013

Talk to Old Edinburgh Club Meeting on 143 November - 'The History of Photography in Edinburgh' by Peter Stubbs ©

5.

Professional

Photographers

and their studios

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Photographic studios in

Edinburgh

Princes Street Studios

  • Photography became well established in Edinburgh from the 1840s onwards. Most of the early photographic studios were in Princes Street initially, but from the mid-1860 s onwards, studios began to open up elsewhere in the city.

Edinburgh Studios  -  1840 to 1900

Chart - Princes Street Studios - 1840-1900

  • Princes Street was well suited to photography.  There was an open outlook to the south towards Edinburgh Castle, so studios on the upper floors in Princes Street got the good light that was needed for photography in the early days.

  • There were many tourists and local residents passing along Princes Street, who might visit the photographic studios - but not many would have been prepared to pay the high cost for photos in the early days.

  • Talbot had patented his Calotype photographic process in England, and Daguerre had placed restrictions on the use of his Daguerreotype in  England, but photographers in Scotland were free to use either process .

Edinburgh Studios in 1840s

Calotype and Daguerreotype

Throughout the 1840s, the number of daguerreotype and calotype studios in Edinburgh increased.  Many of these were based in Princes Street.

Princes Street, Edinburgh ©

Below are the earliest professional photographers that I have found in Edinburgh - up to 1850.  Most of these studios were in Princes Street.

The dates below are based on listings in the Edinburgh trade directories, so all  dates should be regarded as approximate

John Counsell

19 Princes St

1842-3

Daguerreotypist

Thomas Davidson

Canongate

High Street

1840

1841

He constructed lenses for many of Edinburgh’s professional photographers

Messrs Edwards

19 Princes St

1842

Daguerreotypists

Charles Gray

19 Princes St

1844

Photographic Portrait Institution

David O ct avius Hill

& Robert Adamson

Rock House

1843-47

The partnership produced over five thousand calotypes before Adamson died aged 26.

Their work is well documented elsewhere, and will be the subject of many exhibitions during 2002.

James Howie

64 Princes St

68 Princes St

45 Princes St

1840

1840-41

1841-65

Portrait and animal painter.

Daguerreotypist.

James Howie jun.

45 Princes St

49 Princes St

71 Princes St

63 Princes St

60 Princes St

1844-45

1848-50

1852-63

1863

1864-88

Miniature Painter and Photographic Artist

Mr Miles

19 Princes St

1842

Daguerreotypist

Mr McMillan

& Mr Thomson

19 Princes St

1845

Daguerreotype Portrait Gallery

Horatio Nelson

72 Princes St

1850-53

Portrait Painter
He later moved to London.

Joseph J Ponder

Greenside St

1848

George Popowitz

4 Mound

60 Princes St

1849

1850-56

Daguerreotypist.

He later worked with albumen on glass.

Ross & Bishop

23 West Lauriston Pl

1844

James Ross (calotypist) and
Robert Bishop (wood engraver).

Ross & Thomson

90 Princes St

1848-64

James Ross (calotypist) and John Thomson (daguerreotypist)

James Ross

Calton Hill

90 Princes St

1846-48

1848-58

By Appointment “Photographer to the Queen from 1849.

John Stanley

75 Princes St

1848-49

John Thomson

90 Princes St

1848-53

PSS Member.

EPS President 1874-76.

James Good Tunny

78 S Clerk St

1850-59

PSS Exhibitor from 1856

Rock House Studio

  • Rock House was beside the steps leading up to Calton Hill from Waterloo Place, about 1/4 mile to the east of the East End of Princes Street.

  • This studio was used by Hill & Adam , calotypists, in 1843-47 , then by a succession of other photographers over the next hundred years.

Rock House

Rock House studio - 1870s

© Reproduced by courtesy of Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services

Hill & Adamson

Rock House

1843-47

  • Here are a few of the many 1843-47 calotypes that have survived from the studio of Hill & Adamson at Rock House.

  • The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Queen Street has a large collection of Hill & Adamson calotypes and has published books about this collection.

D O Hill

DO Hill

© Reproduced by courtesy of Edinburgh Photographic Society

Newhaven Fishwives

Hill & Adamson calotype of Newhaven Fishwives - 5

© Reproduced by courtesy St Andrews University Library                                                                                                             ALB 6-92

The Scott Monument

Hill & Adamson Calotypes - The Scott Monument under construction

© This photograph is included with  National Galleries of Scotland permission.   See Copyright Conditions

White Horse Close

Hill & Adamson Calotype - White Horse Close

© This photograph is included with  National Galleries of Scotland permission.   See Copyright Conditions

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Salisbury Place Studio

Kenneth McLeay  RSA

Photographic Studio:  1859-63

  • Kenneth McLeay was a watercolour portrait painter who had photographic studios in Edinburgh from 1859 to 1863 .

  • He exhibited his photos in Photographic Exhibitions in Edinburgh between 1856 and 1864.

Kenneth McLeay

by Hill & Adamson

Kenneth MacLeay RSA - Calotype by Hill & Adamson

© Reproduced by courtesy of Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services

  • In a letter of 22 December 1859, written to the Photographic Society of Scotland in connection with their 4th Annual Exhibition, he lists the prices of his portraits.

Kenneth McLeay's

Price List

Plain Photographs

1st size   -  no hands                  10s 6d

2nd size  -  with hands               15s 0d

3rd size   -  half length          £1    1s  0d

4th size   -  whole length      £1  11s  6d

Plain copies of the  first 3 sizes  -  5/- each

P lain copies of the 4th size        -  7/6 each.

Painted Photographs

1st size  -  tinted          £2    2s  0d

1st size  -  finished      £3  13s  6d

2nd size  -  tinted        £2  17s  0d

2nd size  -  finished    £4   19s  0d

3rd size  -  tinted         £3   13s  6d

3rd size  -  finished     £6     6s  0d

4th size  -  tinted         £5   15s   6d

4th size  -  finished     £8   18s   6d

4th size - in uniform or highland dress  £10   10s  0d

Miniatures for Bracelets, Lockets, etc. - smallest size  £6 6s 0d

NOTE: £1 in 1859 is equivalent to almost £100 in 2010.)

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  • Cartes de Visite

    See also 'Further Notes'

    The Daguerreotype and Calotype photography of the 1840s involved time, expertise and expense.  It was not suited to supplying the general public with affordable photos

    However, within a couple of decades, studio portraits  had become far more affordable . Competition between photographers was increasing.

    Most Edinburgh photographers were selling:

    - cartes de visite between the late-1850s and 1900, then also

    - cabinet prints between the late-1860s and 1900.

    Victorian photograph albums of this era were specially designed to hold these sizes of photo.

    Here are a few cartes de visite from Edinburgh studios:

    James Ross

    Studios: 1846 to 1870

    Cartes de visite:  Newhaven Fishwives

    • These photos of Newhaven Fishwives were set up in the studio then hand-coloured .  The result is appealing.  The photos are quite different from Hill & Adamson's photos of the fishwives taken outdoors at Newhaven.

    Carte de Visite - Newhaven fishwife - Photographer: John Ross Carte de Visite - Newhaven Fishwife - Photographer: John Ross

    © Reproduced with acknowledgement to National Galleries of Scotland permission.

    John Ross

    Studios: 1858 to 1900

    • These are typical studio portraits taken around 1860.  Note the large dresses.  In some cases, but not here, the curtains would be used to hide a head-stand set up to prevent the sitter from moving.

    A carte de visite by the Edinburgh professional photographer John Ross - lady and handbag A carte de visite by the Edinburgh professional photographer John Ross - lady and handbag

    © peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

    A carte de visite by the Edinburgh professional photographer John Ross - lady and handbag A carte de visite by the Edinburgh professional photographer John Ross - lady and handbag

    © peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

    A carte de visite by the Edinburgh professional photographer John Ross - lady with large dress The back of a carte de visite by the Edinburgh professional photographer John Ross - lady with large dress

    © peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

    John Moffat

    Studios: 1853 to 1962

    Cartes de visite showing medals awarded to him

    • John Moffat added illustrations of the medals he had won to the backs of his cartes de visite.  This can be helpful in dating his cartes de visite.  Fashions can also be helpful in dating photos.  Note that the later cards often have rounded corners.

    1875-80

    John Moffat - Carte de visite - 1875-80 - Boy John Moffat - Carte de visite - 1875-80 - Back = "1 Medal"

    © peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

    1882-86

    John Moffat - Carte de visite - 1882-86 - Girl and Boy John Moffat - Carte de visite - 1882-86 - Back = "3 Medals"

    © peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

    1890-97

    John Moffat - Carte de visite - around 1890 to 1897 - Youth John Moffat - Carte de visite - around 1890 to 1897 - Back = "7 Medals"

    © peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

    From 1897

    John Moffat - Carte de visite - from 1897 - Lady with Book John Moffat - Carte de visite - from 1897 - Back = "10 Medals"

    © peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

    James Howie Jun

    Cartes de visite:  20 men:  Cowgate Free Church Choir
    Cartes de visite:  42 men:  Who are they?

    • These two photos by James Howie , the first taken in 1879, are unusual.  They have surprisingly large groups for small cartes de visite.  The second was taken outdoors. Where?

    James Howie Junior - carte de visite - Cowgate Free Church Choir - November 19, 1878 James Howie Junior - carte de visite - Cowgate Free Church Choir - November 19, 1878

    © Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Scottish Genealogy Society

    James Howie Junior - carte de visite - Group of 42 men James Howie Junior - The back of a carte de visite - Group of 42 men

    © Reproduced with acknowledgement to the author of www.cartedevisite.co.uk

    The Cost

    See also 'Further Notes'

  • A typical charge for cartes de visite in the 1860s was about 6 shillings / dozen - equivalent to about £25 a dozen in today's money, in 2010.

    Cabinet Prints

    See also 'Further Notes'

    Parisian Photo Co

    Studio: 1887 - 1914

    Cabinet Prints

    • I believe that all the 'Parisian Photo Co' photos below are likely to have been taken between about 1887 and 1905:

    • These photos all have backdrops, suggesting grander or more exotic surroundings than the sitter might have been accustomed to.  But they are obviously studio shots.  e.g.  where the photographer has made no attempt to hide join of the backdrop and the flooring.

    • A couple of the people in the photos are in uniform . Did these uniforms belong to the studio?  I suspect the answer is 'Yes' - at least in the case of the Fire Officer's uniform.

    Cabinet Print by Parisian Photo Company - 4 youths

    © For permission to reproduce, please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

    Cabinet Print by Parisian Photo Company - Ladies and balustrade

    © For permission to reproduce, please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

    Cabinet Print by Parisian Photo Company - Ladiy beside window

    © For permission to reproduce, please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

    Cabinet Print by Parisian Photo Company - Boy and ropes

    © For permission to reproduce, please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

    Cabinet Print by Parisian Photo Company - Man in uniform

    © For permission to reproduce, please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

    Cabinet Print by Parisian Photo Company - Bryan Gourlay's Grandmother

    © Reproduced with acknowledgement to Bryan Gourlay, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland

    In Fire Officer's uniform

    Cabinet Print by Parisian Photo Company - Bryan Gourlay's Great-grandfather in Fire Officer's Uniform

    © Reproduced with acknowledgement to Bryan Gourlay, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland

    Cabinet Print by Parisian Photo Company - Railway Carriage

    © For permission to reproduce, please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

    Here is how the last photograph above was taken:

    Parisian Photo Co  -  75 Princes Street  -  Studio Interior

    Parisian Photo Co studio - Princes Street

    © Reproduced by courtesy of Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services

    Harper & Smellie

    Leith Walk (1899-1908)

    and Princes Street (1902-1906)

    • The cabinet prints below suggest that their studio in Leith Walk had a backdrop and a single chair.  You could either stand beside it or sit on it!

    Cabinet Prints - man and chair - Photographer: Harper & Smellie

    William Crooke

    1883 -1929

    • William Crook was a prominent Edinburgh photographer whose reputation had spread around the world.  He won many awards for his photography.

    • He had studios in Princes Street from 1883 until 1929 , with rather more furniture than Harper & Smellie had above.

    • The studio must have looked impressive, with its outlook to the south across Princes Street Gardens to Edinburgh Castle.

    Princes Street Studio  -  1911

    William Crooke's studio - Princes Street

    © Reproduced by courtesy of Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services.

    Princes Street Studio  -  1911

    © Reproduced by courtesy of Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services.

    E R Yerbury

    The Yerbury family had studios
    in Edinburgh 1869 - 2003

    • Several generations of the Yerbury family have had studios in Edinburgh, beginning with E R Yerbury who had a studio at the corner of Princes Street and Hanover Street in the 1860s, and ending with Trevor Yerbury who had a studio in East Claremont Street and specialised in wedding photography.  His studio remained in business until 2003 .

    • Here are some photos of the Yerbury family:

    Three Generations

    LEFT:           Edward Reuben Yerbury [b.1843]

    CENTRE:      Edward Roper Yerbury [b.1915]

    RIGHT:      Edward Reuben Yerbury [b.1881]

    ER Yerbury x 3 - Professional photographers

    © Reproduced by courtesy of the Yerbury family. Click here for link to web site.

    Edward Reuben Yerbury

    b.1843

    Edward Reuben Yerbury - 1843-1933

    © Reproduced by courtesy of the Yerbury Family.

    Edward Reuben Yerbury

    b.18 81

    Edward Reuben Yerbury - 1881-1952

    © Reproduced by courtesy of the Yerbury family.

    Edward Roper Yerbury

    1915 - 1949

    A ged about three

    P hotographed  by his father

    Edward Roper Yerbury - b.1915

    © Reproduced by courtesy of the Yerbury family.

    Edward Roper Yerbury

    1915 - 1949

    'The Sky Pilot'

    ER Yerbury, The Sky Pilot, photographed by his father, ER Yerbury

    © Reproduced by courtesy of Trevor E R Yerbury, Edinburgh

    Trevor Yerbury

    1951 -

    Trevor ER Yerbury - b1951

    © Reproduced by courtesy of Trevor Yerbury. Click here for link to web site.

    • Yerbury photographers took over the businesses of several prominent Edinburgh photographers:

    • William Crooke (1930)

    • JCH Balmain (1958)

    • Andrew Swan Watson (1958)

    • John Moffat (1962)

    • Here are some early images from the Yerbury collection, taken in and around Edinburgh.  The first was taken around 1850.  I believe that most of the others would have been taken by Balmain :

      Cramond

      Cramond and old boats - photograph possibly taken by JCH Balmain

      © Reproduced by courtesy of the Yerbury family. Click here for link to web site.

      Cramond

      Cramond and children - photograph possibly taken by JCH Balmain

      © Reproduced by courtesy of the Yerbury family. Click here for link to web site.

      Maule's Dept Store

      Maule's Department Store - Photograph probably taken by JCH Balmain

      © Reproduced by courtesy of the Yerbury family. Click here for link to web site.

    St Giles - High Street, Edinburgh

    St Giles Cathedral - Edinburgh High Street - Photograph probably by JCH Balmain

    © Reproduced by courtesy of the Yerbury family. Click here for link to web site.

    East End of Princes Street

    Horse-drawn Tram in Prinfes Street - Photo by JCH Balmain

    © Reproduced by courtesy of the Yerbury Family. Click here for link to web site.

    West End of Princes Street

    View from the West End of Princes Street - 1902 - JCH Balmain

    © Reproduced by courtesy of the Yerbury Family. Click here for link to web site.

    Elephant Parade , North Bridge

    The North Bridge - Elephant Parade - by JCH Balmain

    © Reproduced by courtesy of the Yerbury family. Click here for link to web site.

    • Here are some recent photos of Edinburgh with an impressionistic feel.  They were created by Trevor and Faye Yerbury , using original Polaroid material.  They were exhibited, together with some Yerbury images from 1850 to 1950, in Ocean Terminal in 2004:

    The Forth Rail Bridge

    New Images of Edinburgh - by Trevor and Faye Yerbury - In exhibition, August 2004 - The Forth Rail Bridge

    © Trevor and Faye Yerbury, Edinburgh

    Newhaven Lighthouse

    New Images of Edinburgh - by Trevor and Faye Yerbury - In exhibition, August 2004 - Newhaven Lighthouse

    © Trevor and Faye Yerbury, Edinburgh

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Thomas Vernon Begbie

  • Thomas Vernon Begbie took many photos of streets and views around Edinburgh that others ignored.

  • In 1950, his collection of 451 glass plate negatives of Edinburgh was found in an attic and rescued.  Here are a few of them

The Scott Monument

The Scott Monument - Stereoscopic View by Begbie

© City Art Centre, City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries

Waverley Bridge

Looking east from the Scott Monument - Stereoscopic View by Thomas Vernon Begbie

© City Art Centre, City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries

Leith Inner Harbour

Leith Inner Harbour - Stereoscopic View by Begbie

© City Art Centre, City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries

Leith Shore

Leith Shore - Stereoscopic View by Begbie

© City Art Centre, City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries

Canongate Tolbooth

Canongate Tolbooth - Photograph by Thomas Vernon Begbie - late 1850s

© City Art Centre, City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries

Whitehouse Close

Whitehorse Close - Photograph by Begbie

© City Art Centre, City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries

Demolition to enable Cockburn Street to be built

Edinburgh Old Town with demolition of old buildings to create Cockburn Street - Photograph by Begbie

© City Art Centre, City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries

Leith Wynd - leading from the Royal Mile to Leith Walk

Leith Wind - Photographs Begbie

© City Art Centre, City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries

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Norward Inglis

  • Norward Inglis took still photos then, latterly, movies .

    Most of his still photos were taken around the 1950s, about a century after Begbie's photos above.

    Norward Inglis

    Norward Inglis - Professional Photographer from 1940s until 1970s.

    © Copyright: Norward Inglis and peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

    • Norward's photos are high quality.  They capture a lot of details .  Some have been taken from unusual, high, positions.  Here are a few:

Princes Street

Photograph by Norward Inglis - The corner of Princes Street and Castle Street - early-1950s
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Norward Inglis and Barbara Simpson

Edinburgh Castle

Photograph by Norward Inglis - Viewed from the South-East in Johnston Terrace

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Norward Inglis and his daughter, Barbara Simpson

George Street

Photograph by Norward Inglis - George Street from the roof of St George's Church in Charlotte Square

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Norward Inglis and his daughter, Barbara Simpson

Edinburgh Military Tattoo  -   1950  -  The second year of the Tattoo

Edinburgh Tattoo, performed on the Esplanade at Edinburgh Castle - 1950

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Norward Inglis and his daughter, Barbara Simpson

Holyrood Palace Gates

Photograph by Norward Inglis - Holyrood Palace Gates, at the foot of the Royal Mile

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Norward Inglis and his daughter, Barbara Simpson

Princes Street  - Looking West -  What was the occasion?

Trams and crowds in Princes Street. When was this photograph taken and what was the occasion?

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to John Stewart, Livingstone, West Lothian, Scotland

Looking down on Dumbiedykes from Salisbury Crags

Looking down on Dumbiedykes and out towards Edinburgh Castle from Salisbury Crags - probably around the 1950s.

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Norward Inglis and his daughter, Barbara Simpson

  • Photos of Dumbiedykes have attracted a lot of interest amongst visitors to =the EdinPhoto site who used to live in Dumbiedykes and are now scattered around the world. The Dumbiedykes houses were demolished in the 1960s .

  • Here are a few more views of the area.  These have not been taken by Norward Inglis:

The Scotchie, Dumbiedykes  -  1959

Dumbiedykes Survey Photograph - 1959 - Prospect Place

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services                                             Neg. A904A

Looking down on Dumbiedykes from Salisbury Crags

Looking down on Dumbiedykes and out towards Edinburgh Castle from Salisbury Crags - probably around 1940

© Reproduced by courtesy of Evening News. Click here for web site details.

Clearing the Drains in Heriot Mount - 1959

Dumbiedykes Survey Photograph - 1959 - Clearing the Drains

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services
[Ref S1014 D]

Arthur Place -  1959

Dumbiedykes Survey Photograph - 1959 - Between Mid and West Arthur Place

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services                                             Neg. E932F

Three workers from William Waugh Ltd, Metal Merchants   -   Late-1950s

Three workers from William Waugh, Metal Merchants, 6 and 8, Dumbiedykes Road

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Jean Rae, daughter of Tom Aithie on the left of this picture

Top of Arthur Street   -  1959

Dumbiedykes Survey Photograph - 1959 - Arthur Street with lemonade lorry

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services                                             Neg. F936C

Run-away Coal Lorry at the foot of Arthur Street  -  1950s

Coal Lorry accident at the foot of Arthur Street

© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Ron Leckie, California, USA

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Edinburgh Views

1

Street Views

Tram at the West End of Princes Street ©

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2

Buildings

and statues

Engraving from Nelson's Pictorial Guide Books - High Street and St Giles Church ©

Please scroll down

3

Districts

Parks and Towns

Post Card - On the Firth of Forth - JR Russell, Edinburgh ©

Please scroll down

A

Abbey Strand

Academy Street

Admiralty Street

Advocate's Close

Ainslie Place

Albert Place

Albert Road

Albion Road

Anchor Close

Anderson Place

Angle Park Terrace

Annandale Street

Annfield

Annfield Street

Arboretum Avenue

Arden Street

Ardmillan Terrace

Argyle Place

Argyle Square

Arthur Place

Arthur Street

Ashley Terrace

Atholl Crescent

B

Baberton Avenue

Baberton Loan

Baird Drive

Bakehouse Close

Balfour Street

Ballantyne's Close

Bangor Road

Bank Place Leith

Bath Road

Bath Street

Beaumont Place

Beaverbank Place

Beaverhall Road

Bedford Street

Belford Mews

Belford Road

Bellevue Place

Bellevue Road

Bellevue Street

Bell's Brae

Bernard Street, Leith

Bingham Broadway

Bingham Place

Blair Street

Blackford Avenue

Blackfriars Street

Blackhall Cycle Path

Bonaly Road N Merchiston

Bonaly Wester

Bonnington Avenue

Bonnington Road

Bonnington Toll

Blenheim Place

Boswall Avenue

Boswall Drive

Boswall Parkway

Boswall Quadrant

Boswall Road

Braid Avenue

Braid Place

Braid Road

Brandon Street

Bridge Place

Brighton Street

Bristo Place

Bristo Street

Broomhouse Road

Broomhouse Drive

Broomhouse Place North

Brougham Place

Broughton Place

Broughton Road

Broughton Street

Brown Street

Brunswick Road

Brunswick Street

Bruntsfield

Buckingham Terrace

Buccleuch Place

Buccleuch Street

Burlington Street

C

Cables Wynd

Calder Road

Calton Hill

Cambusnethan Street

Candlemaker Row

Canongate

Carberry Place

Cargil Terrace

Carnegie Street

Caroline Park Grove

Carrick Knowe Hill

Castlehill

Castle Street

Castle Terrace

Castle Wynd South

Causewayside

Causewayside -  shops

Chambers Street

Chapel Street

Charles Street

Charlotte Square

Chessel's Court

Clarenden Crescent

Circus Lane

Clerk Street

Clermiston Road

Cluny Drive

Coalhill

Coates Crescent

Coates Gardens

Coatfield Lane

Coburg Street

Cockburn Street

Colinton Road

Comely Bank Avenue

Comely Bank Roundabout

Comiston Road

Commercial Street, Leith

Corunna Street

Cowan's Close

Cowgate

Craigentinny Ave North

Craigentinny Crescent

Craighall Crescent

Craighall Road

Craigleith Road

Craigmillar Castle Grove

Craigmillar Castle Gardens

Craigmillar Castle Road

Craigmillar Castle Terrace

Craigmillar Park

Craigour Avenue

Craigour Crescent

Craigour Drive

Crewe Crescent

Crewe Road Gardens

Cross Entry

Cumberland Street

D

Dalhousie Terrace

Dalkeith Road

Dalmeny Street

Dalry Road

Danube Street

Davie Street

Darnaway Street

Dean Bank Lane

Dean Bridge

Dean Path

Dean Street

Dean Terrace

Denham Green Avenue

Dreghorn Loan

Drum Street

Drummond Place

Drummond Street

Drumsheugh Gardens

Duke Street Edinburgh

Duke Street Leith

Dumbiedykes Road

Dundas Street

Dundee Street

E

Earl Grey Street

Earl Haig Gardens

East Arthur Place

East Claremont Street

East Crosscauseway

East London Street

East Market Street

East Norton Place

East Preston Street

East Thomas Street

East Trinity Road

East William Street

Easter Road

Ebenezer Mount

Edina Street

Edinburgh Bypass

Edinburgh Road

Elgin Terrace

Ellen's Glen Loan

Ellen's Glen Road

Eyre Place

Elm Row

F

Ferry Road

Ferry Road Avenue

Ferry Road Drive

Fettes Row

Fleshmarket Close

Forbes Street

Forrest Road

Fort Place

Fort Street

Forth Street

Fountain Close

Fountainbridge

Fraser Avenue

Fraser Grove

Frederick Street

Frogston Road

G

Gardner's Crescent

Gayfield Square

George Square

George Street

George IV Bridge

Gibb's Entry

Gifford Park

Giles Street

Gillespie Place

Gilmerton Road

Gilmour Street

Gladstone Terrace

Glasgow Road

Glenallan Drive

Glenfinlas Street

Glengyle Terrace

Glenlockhart Road

Glenogle Road

Gogar Junction

Gorgie Road

Graham Street

Granton Road

Granton Square

Grassmarket

Great Junction St, Leith

Great King Street

Greenbank Drive

Greenbank Grove

Greenbank Road

Greendykes Road

Greenhill Place

Greenside Place

Greenside Row

Grindlay Street

Grove Street

Gypsy Brae

H

Hailsland Park

Hamilton Place

Hamilton Street Leith

Hanover Street

Harewood Road

Harrison Gardens

Harrison Road

Haugh Park

Hawthornbank Lane

Hay Drive

Hay Road

Haymarket

Henderson Place

Henderson Row

Henderson Street

Heriot Hill Terrace

Heriot Bridge

Heriot Mount

Heriot Row

High School Wynd

High School Yards

High Street

High Street, Portobello

High Street, Queensferry

High Street Closes

Hillside Crescent

Holyrood Park Road

Holyrood Road

Holyrood Square

Hope Park Terrace

Hope Street

Howard Place

Howard Street

Howe Street

Hugh Miller Place

Hunter Square

Hutchison Crossway

Hutchison Road

Hyvot Terrace

I

India Place

India Street

Inglis Green Road

Infirmary Street

Inverleith Gardens

Inverleith Place

Inverleith Row

Inverleith Terrace

J

Jamaica Street Edinburgh

Jamaica Street Leith

James' Court

Jameson Place

Jawbone Walk

Jeffrey Street

Johnston Terrace

Joppa Road

Junction Bridge

K

Keir Street

King's Road, Portobello

King's Stables Road

Kirk Street, Leith

Kirkgate, Leith

Kirkgate, Liberton

L

Lady Stair's Close

Lauderdale Street

Lauriston Place

Laverockbank Road

Lawnmarket

Learmonth Avenue

Learmonth Terrace

Leith Street

Leith Walk

Leith Walk -  shops

Leith Wynd

Lennox Row

Leven Terrace

Leslie Place

Lindsay Road

Little King Street

Littlejohn Road

Lochend Drive

Logie Green Road

London Street

London Road

Longstone Road

Lothian Road

Low Calton

Lower Granton Road

Lower Viewcraig Row

Lutton Place

Lyne Street

Lynedoch Place

M

McDonald Road

Madeira Street

Main Street

Manderston Street

Marchmont Road

Mardale Crescent

Market Street Edinburgh

Market Street Leith

Marionville Drive

Maritime Street

Marshall Street

Mayfield Gardens

Meadow Lane

Mayfield Road

Melgund Terrace

Melville Drive

Miller Row

Milne's Court

Montpelier Park

Moray Place

Moredun Crescent

Moredun Park

Morningside Road

Morrison Street

Mound

Mountcastle Drive

Muirhouse Green

Muirhouse Way

Murano Place

Murrayfield Avenue

N

New Lane

New Street

New Town

Newcraighall Road

Newtoft Street

Newhaven Esplanade

Newhaven Road

Nicolson Square

Nicolson Street

Niddrie House Avenue

Niddrie Mains Drive

Niddrie Mains Road

Niddry Street South

North Bank Street

North Bridge

North Fort Street

North Junction Street

North West Circus Place

O

Ocean Drive

Ocean Way

Old Sugarhouse Close

Old Tolbooth Wynd

Old Town

Orchard Brae

Orchard Road

P

Parliament Place Leith

Parliament Square Leith

Patrick Geddes Steps

Peffermill Road

Pembroke Place

Pennywell Gardens

Pennywell Grove

Pennywell Medway

Pennywell Place

Pennywell Road

Picardy Place

Pier Place Newhaven

Piershill Square West

Pirrie Street Leith

Pilton Avenue

Pitt Street

Pitt Street Leith

Pleasance

Portobello Road

Portobello Roundabout

Portsburgh Square

Potterrow

Primrose Bank Road

Prince Consort Place Leith

Prince Regent Street

Princes Street

Princes Street : looking E

Princes Street: looking N

Princes Street : looking S

Princes Street : looking W

Prospect Place

Prospect Street

Prospect Terrace

Q

Queen Charlotte Street

Queen Street

Queen's Drive

Queensferry Road

Queensferry Street

R

Raeburn Place

Ramsay Lane

Randolph Lane

Rankeillor Street

Rattray Grove

Rattray Loan

Ravenscraig Street

Redbraes Place

Regent Terrace

Regent Road

Reid Terrace

Reid's Close

Restalrig Road

Restalrig Road South

Richmond Lane

Riddle's Court

Rintoul Place

Rodney Street

Rose Street

Rosebank Road

Roseburn Street

Roseburn Terrace

Rossie Place

Royal Circus

Royal Terrace

Royal Mile

Royal Mile Closes

Royal Terrace

Rutland Square

S

St Andrew Place

St Andrew Square

St Andrew Street Leith

St Anthony Lane

St Bernard's Crescent

St James' Square

St John Street

St John's Hill

St John's Place

St John's Road

St John's Square

St Leonard's Bank

St Leonard's Hill

St Leonard Lane

St Leonard Street

St Leonard's Terrace

St Mary's Street

St Mary's Wynd

St Patrick Square

St Stephen Street

St Vincent Street

St Vincent Place

Salamander Street Leith

Salisbury Square

Salisbury Street

Saltire Square

Saughton Mains Gardens

Sandport Place

Seafield Road

Seafield Road East

Semple Street

Simon Square

Shaftesbury Park

Shandwick Place

Sheriff Brae, Leith

Shore, Leith

Simon Square

Slateford Road

South Bridge

Southfield Place

South Charlotte Street

South Elgin Street

South Oxford Street

South Richmond Street

South St Andrew Street

South St David Street

South Trinity Road

Southhouse Road

Springwell Place

Stamp Office Close

Starbank Road

Station Brae

Stenhouse Road

Stewartfield

Stirling Road

Straiton Place

Straiton Road

Strathearn Place

Sugarhouse Close

Summerhall

Surgeons' Square

T

Tanner's Close

Telford Road

Temple Park Crescent

The Steils

Thirlstane Road

Thorntree Street Leith

Timber Bush

Tolbooth Wynd

Tollcross

Transport

Trinity Crescent

Trinity Road

Torphichen Place

Tower Place

Tweeddale Court

Tynecastle Place

U

Upper Viewcraig Row

V

Vennel

Victoria Street

Victoria Terrace

Viewcraig Gardens

Viewcraig Row

Viewcraig Street

Viewforth

Viewforth Park

W

Waddell Place

Wardie Avenue

Wardie Crescent

Wardie Road

Wardie Square

Wardlaw Street

Wardrop's Court

Warrender Park Road

Warrender Park Terrace

Warriston's Close

Warriston Road

Waterfront Avenue

Water Street

Waterloo Place

Watson Crescent

Watson Terrrace

Wauchope Avenue

Wauchope Crescent

Wauchope Place

Wauchope Terrace

Waverley Bridge

Wellhead Close

Wemyss Place

West Bow

West Bowling Green St

Westburn Gardens

West Bryson Road

West Catherine Place

West Crosscauseway

West Granton Access

West Granton Crescent

West Granton Drive

West Granton Place

West Granton Road

West Harbour Road

West Norton Place

West Pilton Gardens

West Pilton Grove

West Pilton Road

West Pilton Street

West Port

West Saville Terrace

West Shore Road

Wester Close

Wester Hailes Drive

White Horse Close

Whitehouse Loan

Wilkie Place

Willowbrae Road

Woodburn Terrace

X Y Z

Yardheads

York Place

Zetland Place

All Streets

Street Furniture

Street Art and Graffiti

A

Adam Smith Statue

Advocates Library

Allan Ramsay House

Anchor Apartments

Anchor Inn Roadhouse

Art Space Craigmillar

Asa Wass Scrap Yard

Assembly Hall

Assembly Rooms

Assembly Rooms Leith

B

Baberton Lodge

Balmoral Hotel

Balmoral Hotel Portobello

Bank of Scotland

Bannerman's Bar

Barbers' Shops

Barnbougle Castle

Barnie Battle's Pub

Barnton Hotel

Barnton House

Bedlam Theatre

Barbecue Grill & Restaurant

Barclay Church

Bible Land

Bill's Bar, Leith

Black Turnpike

Black Watch Memorial

Blind Asylum

Bonnington Bond

Bonnington Utd Free Church

Boroughmuir School

Braeburn

Braefoot Motor Garage

Braid Church

Braidwood Centre

Brass Monkey

Bridewell

Britannia Quay

British Linen Bank

Broomview House

Broughton Hall

Broughton Primary School

Bruce Peebles - Bonnington

Bruce Peebles - East Pilton

Burns Monument

Bus Depot

Bus Station

Burns Monument Regent Road

Burns Monument Leith

Buttercup Dairy Shops

C

C & A Modes

Caerketton Court

Café Royal

Cairngorm House

Calton Jail

Caledonian Brewery

Caledonian Hotel

Caley Station

Carlton Hotel

Camera Obscura

Canaan House

Cannonball House

Canongate Church

Candlemaker Row

Canongate Tolbooth

Canonmills Baptist Church

Cardinal Beaton's House

Caroline Park

Castle

Castlehill School

Castle Mills

Castle o' Clouts

Catholic Chapel

Central Bar, Leith

Central Garage

Central Library

Chancellor Court

Christ Church, Morningside

Churches

Chancelot Mill

Ciao Roma Restaurant

Cinemas

Citadel Court

City Chambers

City Hospital

City Mission

City Poorhouse

Clermiston House

Clermiston Mains

Clermount

Coach House Square

Coasters Roller Disco

Cockburn Engineering

Coillesdene House

Comiston Castle

Comiston House

Cook's Balmoral Hotel

Corinthian Quay

Corporation Buildings Leith

Corstorphine Heritage Centre

Corstorphine Hill Tower

Colinton Parish Church

Comiston House

Commercial Street

The Conspirators Café'

Corinthian Quay

Corn Exchange

Corstorphine Church

County Cinema

Couper Street School

Cox's Glue Works, Gorgie

Craigentinny Marbles

Craiglockhart Primary School

Craigmillar Castle

Craigmillar Com Arts Centre

Craigmillar Primary School

Croall, Coachbuilders

Croft-an-Righ House

Cruise

Cullen Confectioner

Custom House, Leith

D

Dalmeny House

Daniel Stewart College

Darling's Regent Hotel

David Kilpatrick School

Davie Street School

Deaconess Hospital

Dean Gallery

Dean Orphanage

Dean School

Deacon Brodie's Tavern

DJ Motors

Dr Bell's School

Doctors

The Dome

Dovecot Studios

Donaldson's College

Duddingston Kirk

Dugald Stewart Monument

Dundas House

Dynamic Earth

E

Easter Duddingston Lodge

Eastern General Hospital

Edinburgh Academy

Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle views from ...

Edinburgh City Council HQ

Edinburgh Jail

Edinburgh Ladies College

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary

Edinburgh University

Edzell Lodge

Edinburgh Wheel

Eldorado Ballroom

Embassy Cinema

Empire Theatre

Excise Office

Express Holiday Inn

F

Fairmile Inn

Fernwood

Ferry Tap

Fettes College

Fire Stations

Flora Stevenson School

Foot of the Walk, Leith

Footballer's Arms

Fort House Leith

Fort Primary School

Free Church of Scotland

G

Gaiety Theatre

Gallery of Modern Art

Gayfield House

General Post Office

George Heriot's School

George Watson's School

Gorgie House

Gorgie Mills

Gillespie's Hospital

Gilmerton Police Station

Gilmerton Primary School

Gladstone Monument

Gladstone's Land

Glenalmond Court

Glenogle Baths

Gogarburn House

Goldbergs

Gorgie Cottages

Gorgie Tram Depot

Gormley Statues

Governor's House

Gracemount High School

Gracemount high rise flats

Grampian House

Granton Castle

Granton Custom House

Granton Gas Works

Granton Gas Works Station

Granton House

Granton Methodist Church

Granton Ice Works

Granton Road Station

Granton Station

Granton United Church

Greyfriars Church

Greenbank Cottage

Greenland Mill

Greendykes House

Grosvenor Hotel

Guard-House

H

Halfway House

Harrison Park Apartments

Haymarket Hotel

HBOS Offices

Heriot's Hospital

Hermiston Court

High School Wynd

High Street Hostel

Holy Trinity Church

Holyrood  Abbey

Holyrood Dairy

Holyrood Palace

Hope Park Free Church

Hospitals

Hotel Misssoni

Hotels

The Hub

Hunter's Tryst

Huntly House

I

IKEA store

Inch House

Inchcolm Court

Industrial School

J

Jacey News Theatre

Jacobean Café + Gift Shop

James Clark's School

James Gillespie's High School

James Dunbar lemonade works

Jeanie Deans' Cottage

Jenners Department Store

Jewel Cottages

Jewish Temple

Jock Howieson's House

John Knox House

John Watson's Hospital

John Watson's School

K

King's Theatre

King's Wark Leith

Kingston House

L

La Fiesta Café

Ladies' College - Queen St.

Lady Haig's Poppy Factory

Lady Stair's Ho use

Lady Yester Church

Laing's Foundry

Laird of Dumbiedykes House

Lamb's House

Lauriston Castle

Le Monde

Leith Academy

Leith Burns Statue

Leith Churches

Leith Citadel Station

Leith Corn Exchange

Leith Custom House

Leith Fire Station

Leith Exchange Buildings

Leith High School

Leith Nautical College

Leith North Church

Leith Police Station

Leith Primary School

Leith Provident Co-op

Leith St James Church

Leith St Ninian's Church

Leith Signal Tower

Leith School of Art

Leith South Leith Church

Leith Town Hall

Leith Victoria AAC

Leith Walk Primary School

Leith Waterworld

Liberton Filtration Plant

Liberton Churches

Liberton Primary School

Liberton Tower

Libraries

Life Association Office

Lighthouse, Granton

Loanhead Water Dept Cottage

Lockhart Memorial Church

London Road Fire Station

London Road Parish Church

Longstone Bus Garage

Longstone Inn

Looking down on Edinburgh

Lorimer & Clark's Brewery

Lufra Cottage

M

Mackie's Restaurant

Mahogany Land

Malmaison Hotel Leith

Manhattan

Mansfield Traquair Centre

Marine Gardens Ballroom

Marine Hotel, Newhaven

Market Cross

Martyr's Tomb

Mary of Guise's House

Martello Court

Martello Tower

Maule's Dept. Store

Mayfield Salisbury Church

McEwan Hall

Me adowbank Stadium

Mechanic Arms

Melville Monument

Merchant Maiden Hospital

Merchiston Castle School

Merchant Navy Memorial

Methodist Chapel

Michael's Café

Middleton House

Miller Mausoleum

Millers Wireless

Milton House School

Mr Purves' Lamp Emporium

Monseigneur News Theatre

Monuments

Moray House

Moredun Crescent

Moredun School

Morningside Parish Church

Morton House

Moubray House

Mount Alvernia Convent

Muirhouse Mansion

Muirhouse tower block

Muirhouse Towers

Murrayfield Convalescent Home

Murrayfield Stadium

Museum

Myreside Pavilion

N

National Galleries

National Library

National Monument

National Museum of Scotland

Navy Club

Nelson Monument

Nelson's Works

Nether Bow Port

New College

New County Hall

New Palace Cinema

New Victoria Cinema

Newhaven Station

Next

Niddrie House

Niddrie Marischal House

Niddrie Mill Sunday School

North British Distillery

North British Hotel

North British Rubber Co

Northern General Hospital

North Merchiston Boys' Club

North Merchiston School

Norton Park School

Norwegian Seamen's Church

Now & Then shop

O

Observatory, Calton Hill

Ocean Terminal

Oddfellows' Hall

Old Buccleuch Parish School

Old Chain Pier

Old Observatory House

Old Town Fire

Old Town Houses

Old Town Weaving Co.

Omni Centre

Out of the Blue Drill Hall

Outlook Tower

P

Palace Cinema Leith

Palace Picture House

Palais de Dance

Palm House

Parcel Depot

Parker's Store

Parsons Green School

Parliament House

Patrick Thomson store

Peacock Inn

Peffermill School

Peffermill Tin School

Penny Tenement

Pentland Hills Hotel

Persevere Court

Physicians' Hall

Pied Piper

Piershill Barracks

Pilrig House

PIN Hall, Gilmerton

Playhouse Theatre

Pleasance Courtyard

Polton Farm

Polwarth Parish Church

Poor Clares Convent

Poppy Factory

Portrait Gallery

Portobello Bathing Pool

Portobello Free Church

Powderhall Refuse Depot

Preston Street School

Prestonfield House

Primark

Prince Albert Buildings

Princes Street Shops

Princes Street Station

Prison

Public Houses

Q

The Quarter Gill public house

Quayside Mills Leith

Queen Mary's  Bath House

R

Ramsay Garden

Redford Barracks

Redhall House

Reid Memorial Church

Regent Bridge

Regent Murray's House

Register House

Rex Launderette

Ritz Cinema

Robin Chapel

Robin's Nest

Rock House

Ronaldson's Wharf

Roseburn Armoury

Roseburn House

Ross Bandstand

Ross Fountain

Rotunda

Royal Bank of Scotland

Royal Botanic Garden

Royal Exchange

Royal High School

Royal Hospital for Sick Children

Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Royal Institution

Royal Mile Primary School

Royal Museum of Scotland

Royal Observatory

Royal Scots Greys Statue

Royal Scottish Academy

Royal Victoria Hospital

Royston Primary School

Rutherford's Lounge Bar

S

Sailors' Home Leith

St Aidan's Church

St. Andrew's Church

St. Andrew's House

St. Anthony's Chapel

St. Ann's School

St. Bernard's Well

St. Columba's Hospice

St. Cuthbert's Church

St. Francis' School

St. George's Church

St. George's Chapel

St. George's School

St. George's West

St. Giles' C hurch

St. Hilda's School

St. James' Centre

St. John's Church

St. Leonard's Engine Shed

St Margaret's Church Dum'dykes

St Margaret Mary's Church

St Leonard's Parish Church

St. Margaret's Convent

St. Mary Star of the Sea

St. Mary's Cathedral

St. Michael's Church

St. Mungo's Church

St. Patrick's Church

St. Patrick's School

St. Paul's Church St Leonard's

St. Paul's Church York Place

St. Philips Episcopal Church

St. Raphael's Hospital

St. Stephen's Church

Saughton House

Scandinavian Church Leith

Schools

Scotsman Steps

Scott Monument

Scott Monument views from ...

The Scottish Gallery

Scottish Executive Office

Scottish Gas Head Office

Scottish Government Office

Scottish Mint

Scottish Natl. Portrait Gallery

Scottish Parliament

Scottish Widows Office

Sculptures

Selex Galileo Factory

Shakespeare Square

Shakespeare Theatre

Sheraton Hotel

Sherriff Court

Shops

Shrubhill

Sick Children's Hospital

Signal Box: Waverley East

Signet Library

Signal Tower Leith

Silvermills Forge

Simon Square Wash House

Sinclair Fountain

SMT Sales & Service

SoCo

Society

South Bank House

South Leith Parish Church

Standard Life George Street

Standard Life Lothian Road

Standard Life Tanfield

State Cinema Gt Junction St

Statues

Sunset Blvd

Surgeon's Hall

Swanston Cottage

T

Tanfield Hall

Tanfield House

Taylor's Bakery

TEBA Boxing Academy

The Hub

Theatre Royal

Tolbooth

Tolbooth St John's Church

Towerbank School

Trades' Maiden Hospital

Tram Depots

Trinity Academy

Trinity College Church

Tron Kirk

Tweedmuir House

Tynecastle High School

U

United Wire Works

Upper Spylaw Mill

Usher Hall

Usher's Brewery St Leonard's

V

VA Tech, Leith

Victoria Bar

Victoria Baths

Victoria Hall

W

Wardie Bay Garage

Wardie Farm

Wardie House

Wardie Hotel

Wardie Lodge

Wardie Parish Church

Warrender Park Road

Watson's Hospital

Wauchope House

Waverley Market

Waverley Station

Waverley Steps

Weir Court

Well Court, Dean

Wells o' Wearie Cottage

Western General Hospital

Westland Cottages

White Hart Inn

White Horse Inn

White House Public House

William Waugh

Windsor Mansions

Wood's Barber Shop

Woodside Cottage

The Writers' Museum

X Y Z

Younger's Brewery

A

Abbeyhill

Anchorfield

Arbroath

Arniston

Arthur's Seat

Atholl Crescent Gardens

Auchendinny

B

Balerno

Balgreen

Barnton

Bass Rock

Belhaven Bay

Bellevue

Bingham

Bonnington

Blackford

Blackford Hill

Blackford Pond

Bonnington

Bonnington Bridge

Bonnyrigg

Bo'ness

Boswall Estate

Botanic Garden

Braelangwell House

Braid Hills

Bridgend

Bristo Square

Broughton

Bruntsfield

Buckstone Farm

Burdiehouse

Burntisland

Buttercup Poultry Farm

C

Calton Graveyards

Caltongate

Calton Hill

Cameron Toll

Canal

Canonmills

Carrington

Caroline Park

Castle Terrace

Cattle Market

Cemeteries

Chancelot Park

Church Hill

Coates Gardens

Cockenzie

Colinton

Colonies

Comely Bank

Corstorphine

Corstorphine Hill

Craigentinny

Craigleith Quarry

Craiglockhart

Craigmillar

Craigour

Cramond

Cramond Island

Crewe Toll

Currie

D

Dalgety Bay

Dalhousie Castle

Dalkeith Fever Hospital

Dalkeith Railway Station

Dalmeny

Dalry

Davidson's Mains

Dean Bridge

Dean Cemetery

Dean Village

Distant Views of Edin burgh

Duddingston

Duddingston Camp

Dumbiedykes

Dundas Castle + Estate

Dunbar

Dunfermline

Dunure Castle

E

Eagle Rock

East Lothian

East Wemyss

Eastern Cemetery

Echo Bank

Edinburgh Airport

Edinburgh and Leith

Edinburgh 'Chinatown'

Edinburgh Closes

Edinburgh Quay

Edinburgh Zoo

Eskbank

Exchange

Exhibition - 1908

F

Fairmilehead

Festival Square

Figgate Pond

Firth of Forth

Fisherrow

Floral Clock

Fort Kinnaird

Forth Bridge

Forth Road Bridge

Forthquarter Park

Forthside

Fountainbridge

G

Galashiels

Gilmerton

Glasgow

Glen Ogle

Glencorse Reservoir

Glencorse Viaduct

Gogar

Goldenacre

Gorebridge

Gorgie

Gracemount

Grangemouth

Granton

Granton Beach

Granton Harbour

Granton Lighthouse

Granton Middle Pier

Gracemount

Graveyards

Greeenbank

Greendykes

Greyfriars' Graveyard

Gullane

H

Harrison Park

Hawthornden

Haymarket

High Rise Flats

Hermitage of Braid

Hopetoun House

Holy Corner

Holyrood

Holyrood Park

Hound Point

Holyrood Park

Hyvots Bank

I

Inch

Inch - Types of Tree

Inchcolm

Inchgarvie

Inchkeith

Inch Park

Inchmickery

Ingliston

Inveraray

Inveresk

Inverkeithing

Inverleith Park

J

Jacob's Ladder

Jewel

Joppa

Juniper Green

K

Keddie Gardens

King Geo. V Playing Fields

Kinghorn

Kirkcaldy

Kirkcudbrightshire

Kirkintilloch

Kirknewton

L

Lasswade

Lathalmond

Leith

Leith Docks

Leith Harbour

Leith Links

Leith Piers

Lethem Park

Liberton

Linlithgow

Little France

Loanhead

Loch Leven

Lochend Park

Lochinvar Camp

Lochrin Basin

London Rd Gardens

Longniddry

Longstone

M

Marchmont

Marionville Park

Maybury

Mayfield

Meadowbank

The Meadows

Melrose

Merchiston

Merchiston Tower

Middleton Camp

Moffat

Montrose

Morningside

Mortonhall Estate

Muirhouse

Murrayfield

Musselburgh

Myreside

N

New Calton Cemetery

New Town

Newhaven

Newington

Newtongrange

Niddrie

North Berwick

North Leith Cemetery

North Merchiston

North Queensferry

O

Old Cattle Market

Old Town

Old Town Closes

Oxgangs

P

Parks and Gardens

Parsons Green

Pathhead Viaduct

Peebles

Peffermill

Penicuik

Pennywell

Pentland Hills

Picardy

Piershill

Pilrig

Pilton

Pinkhill

Polton Farm

Polwarth

Port Edgar

Port Hopetoun

Port Seton

Portobello

Powderhall

Princes Street Gardens

Puddockie

Q

Queen Street Gardens

Queensferry

Queen's Park

R

Rannoch Moor

Ratho

Redbraes Park

Restalrig

Rosebank Cemetery

Rosebery Reservoir

Rosebank Ceremony

Roseburn

Rosewell

Roslin Chapel

Rossie Castle

Rosslyn Chapel

Roslyn Castle

Rosyth Castle

Royal Botanic Garden

Royal Circus

Royal Gymnasium

S

St Andrews

St Andrew Square Gardens

St Leonard's

St Leonard's Sidings

St Margaret's Loch

Salisbury Crags

Samson's Ribs

Saughton

Saughton Park

Sciennes

Scotland

Seafield

Seton Sands

Sighthill

Silverknowes

'Slidey Stane'

South Queensferry

Stenhouse

Stirling

Stockbridge

Stockbridge Colonies

Stockbridge 'Leafmen'

Stow

Straiton

Swanston

T

Tanfield

Tay Valley

Temple

Tollcross

Trinity

Turnhouse Aerodrome

Tynemouth

U

Union Canal

V

Victoria Park Leith

Viewforth

W X

Wardie

Wardie Bay

Warriston

Warriston Cemetery

Warriston Crematorium

Water of Leith

Waterfront

Waverley Market

Waverley Railway

Waverley Steps

Waverley Valley

Wells o' Wearie

West End

West Granton

West Pilton

Wester Coates

Wester Drylaw

Wester Hailes

Whitehill Business Centre

Whitehill Hospital

Woodmuir Junction

Y

Yellowcraigs Beach

Z

Zoo

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Newhaven

1840

Newhaven Map - 1860

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1860

Newhaven map - 1860

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1870

Map of Newhaven - 1870

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1917

Newhaven Map - 1917

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Edinburgh

1844

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Canonmills

1844 map

Edinburgh - 1844 - Map produced for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - Section B

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Canonmills

1925 Map

Edinburgh map - 1925 - Section B

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Canonmills

2001 Aerial View

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Around the Tron

1844 map

Edinburgh - 1844 - Map produced for the Society for the Dissemination of Useful Knowledge - Section K

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Around the Tron

1925 Map

Edinburgh map - 1925 - Section K

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2001 Aerial View

Aerial View of Edinburgh - 2001 - Section K

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Edinburgh

Names + Speech

- Edinburgh - Places and People

- Edinburgh - Words and Dialect

- Edinburgh - Expressions

- Edinburgh - Sweets, Drinks, Snacks, Cakes

- Other Comments Received

- Questions

- Penicuik - Words and Dialect

- Edinburgh Poems -  Edinburgh Photographic Society

- Edinburgh Poems -  Granton

- Edinburgh Poem -   Scottish Parliament Building

Some of these poems include local words and dialect.

1.

Edinburgh - Central

Old Town

including Dumbiedykes, St Leonards, South Side and Fountainbridge

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- Bannerman's Bar

- Barron's Rag Merchants

- Blackfriars Street

- Bristo

- Brown Street

- Brown's Place

- Buccleuch Street

- Canongate

- Castlehill

- Carnegie Street

- Castlehill Primary School

- Central Garage Annandale Street

- Chambers Street

- Chessels Court

- Cockburn Street

- Cowgate

- Cowgate area

- Croft-an-Righ

- Crosscauseway

- Dalrymple Place

- Deaconess Hospital

- Drummond Street

- Dumbiedykes -  after demolition

- Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street Aitchison, Greengrocer

- Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street baker's shop

- Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street coal lorry

- Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street confectioner

- Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street demolition

- Dumbiedykes - Arthur Street Thomas Cullen's shop

- Dumbiedykes - Houses and Streets

- Dumbiedykes - Factories and Shops 1950s

- Dumbiedykes - People and Play 1940 s -1960s

- Dumbiedykes - People and Play 1940 s -1960 s: page 2

- Dumbiedykes - St Leonard's 1950s

- Dumbiedykes - Searching for People

- Dumbiedykes - Streets  A-G

- Dumbiedykes - Streets  H-R

- Dumbiedykes - Streets  S-Z

- Dumbiedykes - Tenement Collapses

- Dumbiedykes - 'The Embers'

- Dumbiedykes - Tusi's ice cream shop

- East Preston Street

- Edinburgh Castle

- Fleshmarket Close

- Fountainbridge Early recollections

- Fountainbridge from 1940s

- The Grapes

- The Grassmarket

- Haymarket

- Heriot Mount Street Party

- High School Yards

- High Street

- Holyrood Palace

- Holyrood P ark

- Holyrood Road

- Keir Street

- Heriot Place

- Infirmary Street Baths

- James Clark School

- James Wood hairdresser

- Jeannie Deans' Cottage

- Jeannie Veitch's sweetie shop

- Keir Street

- Lawnmarket

- Lower Viewcraig Row

- Milne's Court

- Moubray House

- Meadows

- Nicolson Street

- Old Town Closes

- Old Town Names

- One O'Clock Gun

- Pleasance back greens

- Pleasance

- Potterrow

- Prince Albert Buildings

- Ramsay Lane

- Rutherford's Lounge Bar

- Royal Mile

- St Ann's School

- St John's Hill

- St Leonard's Parish Church

- St Mary's Street

- St Patrick's Church

- St Patrick Square

- Salisbury Street

- Searching for Poeple

- Simon Square Wash House

- Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion

- South Clerk Street

- South Side

- Stewart's Bar

- Tollcross

- Tusi's sweetie shop

- Upper Viewcraig Row

- Upper Viewcraig Low Road

- Vennel

- Victoria Street

- White Horse Close

New Town

- Assembly Room Concerts

- Atholl Crescent

- Bars

- Blenheim Place

- Caledonian Station

- Calton Hill

- Calton Road

- East London Street

- Edinburgh 1950s

- Fettes Row

- Floral Clock

- Gladstone Monument

- George Street

- Great King Street

- Greenside

- Hillside

- Jamaica Street

- Jerome's Studio

- Leith Street

- Lothian Road

- Lothian Road Snack Bar

- McDonald Road

- Milne's Bar

- The Mound

- Nelson Street

- Picardy Place

- Pitt Street

- Princes Street

- Princes Street Gardens

- Princes Street Station

- Rose Street

- Ross Bandstand

- St Andrew Square 'The American Hut''

- St James Square

- St James' United Free Church

- St Mary's Cathedral

- Searching for Poeple

- Sinclair Fountain

- Thistle Street

- Union Place

- Waverley Market

- Waverley Market Epstein Exhibition

- Waverley Station

- West End

- West End Points Duty

Shops , Cafés, Restaurants

- The Albert Bazaar

- Benny's Shoe Shop

- Baird's Shoe Shop

- Cafés and Restaurants

- Goldbergs Department Store

- Hairdresser Central Edinburgh

- Highland House Lawnmarket

- Jenners Store

- Milk Bars

- Patrick Thomson's and shops nearby

- Record Shops

- Roast Chicken Shops

- Shops Central Edinburgh

- Waverley Tailoring Co

- West Bow

- West End Cafés and Restaurants

- Woolworths

Other Memories
and questions

- Central Edinburgh

2.

Edinburgh  -  East

Wauchope Terrace, Craigmillar ©

- Abbeyhill

- Bingham

- Cairntows Craigmillar

- Cambusnethan Street

- Coillesdene House Joppa

- Craigentinny 1940s

- Craigmillar and Niddrie 1940s-50s

- Craigmillar and Niddrie 1960s-70s

- Craigmillar and Niddrie 1970s onwards

- Craigmillar Castle

- Craigmillar Castle Estate

- Craigmillar - The Venchie

- Duddingston

- Duddingston Camp 1940s-50s

- East Thomas Street 19 3 0s-60s

- East Thomas Street neighbours

- East William Street

- Easter Road

- Fisherrow Harbour

- Fort Kinnaird

- Greendykes

- The Inch

- Jeffrey Street

- Jewel Cottages

- Joppa

- Joppa tram tracks

- Lochend and Easter Road

- Magdalene

- Meadowbank

- Newcraighall

- Niddrie 1930s to1950s

- Niddrie 1950s+ 1960s

- Niddrie Mill

- Niddrie Mill Sunday School

- Peffermill

- Piershill

- Pilrig 1950s

- Portobello early 1900s

- Portobello 19 2 0s to 19 50s

- Portobello from 1950s

- Portobello Bathing Pool

- Portobello High Street

- Portobello Hotels early 1900s

- Restalrig

- Seafield

- Searching for People East Edinburgh

- South Elgin Street

- Whitehouse Public House

3 .

Edinburgh  -  North

Boswall, Granton, Royston, Trinity, Wardie

Zoom-in to a photograph of Granton Road Station - 1934 ©

- Boswall + Granton + Trinity + Wardie - 1940s

- Boswall + Granton + Trinity + Wardie - 1950s -7 0s

- Boswall + Granton + Trinity + Wardie - Shops

- Challenger Lodge

- Comely Bank

- Comely Bank Milk Deliveries

- Comely Bank Moir & Baxter's Garage

- Craighall

- Crewe Toll

- Goldenacre

- Granton 1930 s -50s

- Granton 1950s

- Granton 1950s - 70s

- Granton 1970s and 2000s

- Granton, Boswall, Royston since 1940s

- Granton Harbour then to Sea 1940s

- Granton Harbour T L Devlin, trawler owners

- Granton Harbour Brown, Blacksmith, WW1

- Granton Harbour esparto grass 1940s/50s

- Granton Harbour around 1960

- Granton Harbour 1950s to 1970s

- Granton House  to  Fire 1954

- Granton - Lower Granton Road

- Granton Ice Works 1950s-1970s

- Granton Railway 1960s to 1980s

- Inverleith

- Inverleith Pond

- Inverleith Terrace Edzell Lodge

- Leith Walk

- Leith Walk Café

- Lindsay Road and North Fort Street

- Lochinvar Camp 1940s - 50s

- Lomond Park

- Muirhouse

- Muirhouse Towers

- Old Chain Pier

- Pennywell 1940s

- Pilton

- Pilton 1940 bomb

- Royal Botanic Garden question

- Royston from 1930s

- Royston 1970s

- Scotland Street coal yard

- Starbank Inn 1970s

- Trinity Cottage

- Wardie Residents' Club from 1940s

- Wardie School 1930s

- Wardie School 1940s

- Wardie School 1950s

- Wardie School and Playgroup 1960s

- Wardie School 1970s

- Wardie School 1980s

- Warriston Cemetery

- West Granton:  Gypsy Brae 1950s

- West Granton:  Shops 1950s

- Wester Drylaw

- Wester Hailes

4.

Edinburgh  -  West

- Baird Drive

- Broomhouse

- Clermiston House

- Comiston

- Corstorphine and Clermiston

- Cramond

- Cramond Island 1970s

- Dalry

- Davidson's Mains

- Davidson's Mains Station

- Edinburgh Airport

- Edinburgh Zoo

- Gogarburn Hospital

- Glenburn Hotel

- Gorgie

- Gorgie mills

- Gorgie and Chesser

- Gorgie Station

- Hailes Quarry

- Harrison Road

- Hutchison and Chesser

- Lauriston Castle

- Merchiston

- Murrayfield

- Newbridge

- Ratho

- Sighthill

- Slateford Road

- South Queensferry and Port Edgar

- Strathearn Place

- Union Canal

- Western General Hospital

- Whitson

See also E dinburgh - By the Water of Leith below.

5 .

Edinburgh  -  South

- Bridgend

- Bristo Street

- Bruntsfield

- Bruntsfield shinty

- Burdiehouse

- Canaan House Morningside

- Canaan Lodge Morningside

- City Hospital

- Comiston

- East Preston Street

- Echo Bank Newington

- Fairmilehead

- Gilmerton

- Gilmerton Westland Cottages

- Gladstone Terrace

- Gracemount

- Happy Valley

- Liberton

- Liberton Brae

- Little France

- Marchmont

- Moredun

- Mount Alvernia

- Morningside

- Newington

- Oxgangs

- Peffermill and Prestonfield

- Polwarth

- Poor Clare's Convent

- Priestfield

- St Leonard's

- St Margaret's Convent

- Sciennes

- Southside

- Viewforth

See also E dinburgh - By the Water of Leith below.

6.

Edinburgh  -  By the Water of Leith

Canonmills, Warriston and Beaverbank to Colinton and Juniper Green

Beaverhall Road - W & M Duncan's Chocolate Factory, around 1927 ©

- At Home

- Baberton House

- Beaverbank industries - 1940s

- Bellevue

- Bellevue - milk deliveries

- Bonnington

- Bonnington - filming

- Broughton

- Broughton - buses

- Broughton - Growing up

- Broughton - streets & houses

- Canonmills

- Colinton

- Craiglockhart

- Craiglockhart Military Hospital

- Currie

- Danube Street Stockbridge

- Gorgie Road

- Harlaw Reservoir

- Heriot Hill Terrace

- Juniper Green

- Longstone

- Merchiston

- Powderhall

- Saughton

- Slateford

- Stenhouse

- Stockbridge

- Tanfield

- Warriston

- Warriston Cemetery The Red Lady

7.

Leith

including Pilrig - half way
between Edinbrugh and Leith

Edinburgh at Work - Anderson's Cooperage - Leith Docks, 1992 ©

- Anderson Place

- Assembly Rooms

- Ballantyne Road

- Bonnington Bond

- Christening Pieces

- Corunna Place

- Capitol Picture House

- Central Bar

- Cooperage

- Demarco's Ice Cream

- Drinking in Leith

- D K school 1950s

- Dr Bell's school 1940s

- Eldorado Dance Hall

- Ferrier Street

- First trip to sea

- Fort

- Gaiety Leith

- Gordon Street

- Growing up in Leith

- Hamilton Street

- Henderson Street

- Kirkgate

- Leith Cafés

- Leith Digs and Flats

- Leith Docks

- Leith Fort

- Leith Houses

- Leith Milk Deliveries

- Leith World War II

- Leith Place Names

- Leith Nautical College

- Leith - Our Old Radio

- Leith Pageant 1964

- Leith Poem

- Leith Police

- Leith Pubs many long since gone

- Leith Questions

- Leith Searching for People

- Leith Snooker Halls

- Leith Shipping

- Leith Shops

- Leith Street Names

- Leith Tattoo Parlour

- Leith Walk

- Leith Wrestling

- Leith Wild Cat

- Lindsay Road

- Links Primary School

- Madeira Street

- Manderston Street

- North Fort Street

- Ocean Mist

- Parliament Street

- Pilrig 1950s-60s

- Pitt Street Leith

- Primrose Street

- Sailing to Leith

- Sailing to Leith on MV Cairndhu

- Scandinavian Seamen's Church

- Sheriff Brae

- The Shore

- Sun Ray Treatment

- Union Street 1940s

- Whaling from Leith ancestors

- Wild Cat

- Winter of 1947

- Yardheads closes

- Yardheads Brewery

8.

Newhaven

- Newhaven

- Newhaven -  1970s and 2000s

- Newhaven  -  Annfield

- Newhaven  -  Coach Outing

- Newhaven  - Fishwives

- Newhaven  -  Going Fishing

- Newhaven  -  Old Chain Pier

- Newhaven  -  Old Chain Pier and Harbour 1930s

- Newhaven  -  Pageant 1953

- Newhaven  -  Peacock Inn

- Newhaven  -  Police Box and Market Buffet

- Newhaven  - Starbank Park

9 .

Scotland

Borders

- Peebles

Caithness

- Altnabreac Station: Caithness

Central

- Grangemouth

East Lothian

- Farming 1870s-90s

- Musselburgh + Inveresk

- Musselburgh Races

- Musselburgh to Edinburgh Travel

- North Berwick model yacht

Fife

- Kinghorn

- North Queensferry

Glasgow

- Glasgow Co-op Picnics

Midlothian - Bilston

- Loanhead

- Middleton Camp

- Milton Bridge

- Pentland Hills

- Polton Farm

- Rosewell

- Whitehill and Bonnyrigg

West Lothian

- Kirkliston

- Kirknewton

10.

Edinburgh Entertainment + Hobbies

- The Astoria Corstorphine cinema

- Athletics

- Ballroom Dancing Classes

- Beehive Inn Restaurant

- Beverley / Blue Halls Cinema

- Boxing

- Cafés and Restaurants

- Capitol Picture House Leith

- Cinemas and Theatres

- Circus

- Clubs and Discos Recollections 1-100

- Clubs and Discos Recollections 101 onwards

- Collecting Football Cards

- Cycling

- Dance Bands

- Dance Halls

- Daniel Stewart's College

- Early Circuses and Entertainers

- The Ember s Dumbiedykes

- Empire Theatre

- Edinburgh Aero Club

- Football

- Free Activities

- Golf

- Gonk Club Tollcross

- Ice Skating

- James Brown Melodion Player

- Johnny and the Falcons Dumbiedykes

- The Jokers

- King's Theatre

- Ladies' Fashions

- Lascala Cinema

- Men's Fashions

- Murrayfield Ice Rink - Music

- Murrayfield Ice Rink - Skating

- Musselburgh Races

- New Palais - later McGoo's

- New Victoria Cinema

- Observatory

- Palais de Dan s e

- Pantomimes and Theatres

- Palladium East Fountainbridge

- Picnics

- Politics

- Popular Music

- Portobello Marine Gardens

- Pubs

- Radio Programmes

- Skating

- Sparta Amateur Boxing Club

- Street Entertainment

- Students' Rag Week

- Swimming Baths

- Television

- Theatre Royal

- Youth Hostelling

11.

Edinburgh Schools and Colleges

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Schools

- Abbeyhill School

- Ainslie Park School

- All Saints School

- Balgreen School Class 1936-37

- Basil Paterson Tutorial College

- Bellevue School 1946-50

- Bonnington Primary School

- Boroughmuir School 19 4 0s to 1980s

- Broughton School

- Burdiehouse School

- Canonmills Primary School

- Castle H ill Primary School

- Corstorphine School Class 1938

- Couper Street School, Leith

- Craiglockhart Primary School

- Craigmillar Primary School

- Dalry Primary School

- Daniel Stewart's College

- Darroch School

- David Kilpatrick School , Leith

- Dean Orphanage

- Dean Village School

- Donaldson's College

- Dr Bell's School around 1920

- Dr Bell's school 1940s

- Drumbrae Primary School

- Drylaw Primary School

- Duddingston Primary School

- Edinburgh Academy

- Edinburgh Castle School

- Flora Stevenson's School

- George Heriots

- George Watson's College

- Granton School 1940s + 1950

- Granton School 1962

- Heriots

- Hermitage Park Primary School Centenary 2010

- Holy Cross Academy

- Hyvot's Bank Primary School

- James Clark School 1961 photo

- James Clark School

- James Gillespie's School

- John Watson School

- Leith Academy 1952, class 3C2

- Leith Academy

- Leith Walk Primary School 1957

- Links Primary School

- London Street Primary School

- Lorne Street School

- Mary Erskine School

- Melville College

- Milton House Primary School

- Moray House

- Morningside: 'The Cuddy School'

- Mrs Guthrie's 'Toy' School, Stockbridge

- Murrayburn School

- Napier College Now Napier University

- Niddrie Marischal School

- North Fort Street Primary School

- North Merchiston streets around the Primary School

- North Merchiston School

- North Merchiston School photo, around 194 4

- Norton Park Secondary School

- Orwell Primary School

- Parsons Green School

- Parsons Green School 1948-49

- Peffermill Tin School

- Pennywell Primary School

- Pentland High School

- Pilton Primary School

- Portobello High School

- Preston Street School around 1950-51

- Preston Street School around 1952

- Preston Street School

- Prestonfield Primary School

- Roseburn Primary School

- Royal High School

- Royal Mile Primary School

- Royston Primary School

- Royston Primary School class photo, 1946

- St Ann's & St Patrick's Schools

- St Ann's School and playground

- St Anthony's School

- St Anthony's School class photo

- St David's School

- St Francis' School

- St Hilda's School

- St Ignatius School

- St John's School Portobello, 1920s-50s

- St John's School Portobello, from 1950s

- St Margaret's Convent

- St Mary's Primary School York Lane

- St Mary's Primary School Henderson Street

- St Ninian's Primary School

- St Pat rick' s School

- St Saviour's Child Garden

- St Thomas of Aquin's School

- Sciennes Primary School

- Stenhouse School

- South Bridge School

- South Morningside School

- Stockbridge Primary School

- Tollcross Primary School

- Tollcross Primary School early 1950s

- Tollcross Primary School - visit 1985

- Towerbank School

- Trinity Academy to Empire Exhibition - 1938

- Trinity Academy from 1 940s

- Tynecastle Secondary School

- Usher Hall Secondary Schools Concert:  1971

- Victoria School

- Wardie School - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s

- Watson's

- Wester Hailes Education Centre

More Class Photos

- Schools

School Camps

- Middleton Residential School Cam p near Borthwick Castle

- Broomlea School Camp near West Linton

12.

Transport

Buses and Coaches

- Bus and Tram Journeys

- Bus Route 19

- Buses and Trams Toilet Blocks

- Cable Cars

- Central Garage Annandale Street

- Edinburgh Airport

- Edinburgh Corporation Transport Fitzpayne

- Edinburgh Corporation Transport Charlie Carroll

- Gas-Powered Buses

- George Hunter's coaches: Loanhead

- German Open-top Cars Hitler or Goring

- Horse-drawn trams

- Leith Bus Depot Outings + Parties

- Lothian Buses bus tracker system

- Newbattle School Bus Accident near Newtongrange

- Railway to Texaco Oil Plant

- SMT buses

- Steam Buses

- Steam-powered Lorries

- Tram Line Maintenance

- William Stewart's coaches Dalkeith

- School Buses

Cars, Vans, Lorries

- Belgrave Motors

- Milk Floats and Bakers' Vans

- Pentland Garage

- Wood's Garage

Ferries

- Granton-Burntisland Ferry

- Queensferry Ferry

Railways

- Caledonian Station

- Granton Railway  1960s-1980s

- Granton Road Station

- Last Steam Trains Edinburgh area

- The Line to Leith North Station

- Leith Stations

- Musselburgh to Edinburgh

- Princes Street Station

- St Margaret's Railway Depot

Ships

- Sailing to Leith

- Concrete Ships built at Granton

Steam Rollers

in and around Edinburgh

- Midlothian

Trams

- Edinburgh's Last Tram

- Luggage on Trams

- North Bridge

- Trams during WW2

- Tramcar Adventures

Growing up with Transport

- Cars, Boats and Planes

13.

Edinburgh at War

and the years following the War

- Air Raids , Shelters and Bombs

- Aircraft

- ATC

- ATS question

- Albert Docks, Leith crates for US army trucks

- Botanic Gardens

- British Ropes

- Christmas and Hogmanay

- Colinton

- Combined Cadet Force (CCF)

- Dr Bell's school - 1940s

- Edinburgh at War - These are the first recollections that I received

- Edinburgh Civil Defence Messenger Service 1940s

- Evacuation

- Evacuation -  to near Peebles

- Food

- Guide to Edinburgh Air Raid Shelters

- Haymarket

- Hutments -  constructed 1920s

- Lochend

- Leith mini-Blitz

- Marchmont Bomb

- Newhaven

- Pentland Hills

- Pilton Bomb 1940

- Play Edinburgh During the War Years

- Police Boxes

- Post-war years from 1945

- Prefab Housing -  constructed 1940s

- Princes Street Gardens

- Prisoners of War -  farm workers

- Rations

- Royal Mail -  Pillar Boxes

- Royston -  around 1940

- School

- Shopping - during and after WW2

- Squadrons

- Toys

- Trinity Academy - 1940s

- Vaccinations

- The War Effort

- Wartime Housing

- World War II - documents

14.

Edinburgh at Work

Jeffrey Street - Wood Brothers' fish delivery van ©

- Acme Farms Dairy

- W G Adams: Butcher, Dalkeith

- Annandale Motors

- Asa Wass: rag and bone ma n + scrap yard

- Auto Sales

- Baker: Lambert's, Kerr's, Mack's, Crawford's, University

- Barron's: rag merchants

- Bank of Scotland

- Baxters the Butchers

- Beaverbank industries -  1940s

- Beaverbank Motors

- Ben Line

- Beveridge grocer at Gilmerton - 1950s-60s

- D Brotchie & Sons Coal Merchants

- Broughton Industries

- Brown Brothers

- Bruce Peebles Engineering Works

- Buttercup Dairy Company

- Caledonian Brewery

- Campbell Harper photographers

- Central Edinburgh Shops

- Central Garage Annandale Street

- E Chalmers & Co

- Chimney Sweeps

- JP Cochrane

- Colin McAndrew & Partners builders

- Coltart net works at Granton

- Co-op Henderson Street, Leith

- Cowan's Yard

- Cox's Glue Works Gorgie

- Crawford's Biscuits Leith

- Decorating

- Devlin trawler owners

- Drambuie

- Dunbar & Co soft drinks

- Duncan's Chocolates

- Edinburgh & Dumfriesshire Dairy Co

- East Preston Street chimney sweeps

- Edinburgh University

- Edinburgh Corporation Transport Buses and City Cars

- Electrician

- Ethicon

- Farm workers and Wimpey workers

- Fell & Mathieson plumbers

- Ferranti

- Forth Bridge

- Frosts' Furnishing Shop

- Furness Withy Leith Docks

- George Brown & Sons boatyard

- George Gibson: Leith

- John Glindinning & Sons - Plumbers

- George Greenhill & Son painters

- George Hunter's coaches: Loanhead

- Granton Harbour -  Brown, Blacksmith, WW1

- Granton Harbour -  T L Devlin, trawler owners

- Granton Ice Works

- Hawthorn's Shipbuilders -  Leith

- Haymarket Railway Depot

- Henry Robb's Ship Yards Leith

- Hislop & Day

- Holyrood Breweries

- House of Clydesdale

- Ice Cream Van

- Ingin Johnny

- Jaeger -  Princes Street shop

- James Bowen & Sons Garage

- James Dunbar Lemonade

- Jenners -  Princes Street shop

- John Clephane & Sons

- John Gibson & Son Garage

- W & AK Johnson

- A Kay -  trawler owner

- Kings of Glasgow

- Leith Bus Depot Outings + Parties

- Leith Co-op Milk Deliveries

- Leith Docks early 1900s

- Leith Nautical College

- Leith Police

- Liberton Filtration Plant

- Lorimer & Clark's Brewery

- Lothian Crisp Factory

- Lothian Region Transport Signwriting

- Manclark & Son tailors

- Matheson, McLaren & Co tea and coffee

- Mat Rooney 26 jobs

- McKenzie chimney sweep

- McVities Guest Bakery

- Meadows Railway Yard

- Merchiston Motors

- Miller & Co Foundry

- Miler's Wireless

- Moir & Baxter's garage

- Murray field Dairy

- Murray's Cooperage

- National Bank of Scotland

- Niddrie Mill Garage

- North British Distillery

- North British Rubber Works

- Onion Johnny

- Pentland Garage

- Peter Victory taxis

- Photographer's Shop

- Polar Ices

- Police

- Projectionists

- Railways  -  Brunswick Road Goods Yard

- Road Works and Steam Rollers

- Robert Cresser

- Royal Blind Asylum

- St Cuthbert's Co-op Milk Deliveries

- St Cuthbert's Co-op Works Dept.

- St Margaret's Railway Depot

- Scottish Union / Norwich Union Insurance Co

- Shades Potato Merchants

- Steel Coulson's Brewery

- T&H Smith

- SMT buses

- SMT Sales & Service

- Street Sweeping scaffies

- The Store (The Co-op including milk deliveries)

- Thomas Nelson & Sons

- Thomas 'Wingy' Robertson's Yard Leith

- Thomson & Porteous tobacco, snuff, cigarettes, cigars

- United Wire Works

- Viewforth Coachworks

- Waddel's Pork Butcher

- Weston's Biscuits

- Whisky Bond

- Whytock & Reid

- William Stewart's coaches Dalkeith

- William Younger Brewery Holyrood

- Wood Brothers, fish merchants Newhaven

- Young Brothers bakery

1 5 .

Edinburgh Housing

and the years following the War

- Household Bills and Notices

- Prefab Housing -  constructed 1940s

1 6 .

Edinburgh Street Furniture

There are some recollections included amongst the photos that I have added to these sections of the EdinPhoto web site:

- Gates and Railings

- Street Lighting

- Letter Boxes

- Police Boxes

- Posters and Adverts

- Road Signs

- Statues

- Street Names

- Telephone Boxes

1 7 .

Film Clips and Films

- Arthur Street 1961

- Edinburgh Streets 1950

- Old Sugarhouse Close 1939

- Princes Street Allies Week Parade 1942

- St Cuthbert's Milk Deliveries 1967

- Ritz Cinema Construction 1929

- Singing in Edinburgh Streets 1950s

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Recent Photos

I like to work in themes.

Here are some of my themes that I've added to the web site so far:

My Photos

by Peter Stubbs

EDINBURGH

Edinburgh Castle and Fireworks ©

Edinburgh

Beltane Fire Festival 2006

Beltane Fire Festival 2007

Beltane Fire Festival 2008

Edinburgh Christmas 2005

Edinburgh Closes

Edinburgh CowParade 2006

Edinburgh Festival 2003

Edinburgh Festival 2004

Edinburgh Festival 2005

Edinburgh Festival 2006

Edinburgh Festival 2010

Edinburgh Festival 2013

Edinburgh Festival Cavalcade 2009

Edinburgh Fire

Edinburgh Flights

Edinburgh Jazz & Blues 2009

Edinburgh New Year 2007

Edinburgh Police Boxes

Edinburgh Road Works

Edinburgh Shops

Edinburgh Snack Bars

Edinburgh Waterfront

Leith Docks

SCOTLAND

My Photographs - Highland Piper ©

Scotland - Page 1

Scotland - Page 2

Forth Bridge

Highland Games

Life of Jesus Play

Petrol Pumps

Portobello Festival 2003

Scottish Railway Stations

Sheep

WORK

Farrier and Horse ©

Edinburgh at Work
All Companies

Scotland at Work
All Companies

Edinburgh at Work
a few thumbnails

Scotland at Work
a few thumbnails

EDINBURGH YEAR

Photograph by Peter Stubbs - Edinburgh - August 2002 - Umbrella in the Royal Mile ©

Edinburgh - Year

Edinburgh - January

Edinburgh - March

Edinburgh - April

Edinburgh - May

Edinburgh - June

Edinburgh - August

Edinburgh - October

Edinburgh - November

Edinburgh - December

Royal Scots Greys statue

Halloween

TRAVEL

My Photographs - Hong Kong - Star Ferry ©

Boston

England

Hong Kong

Iceland

Italy

London

Montreal

Other places

OTHER SUBJECTS

Granton Flag ©

Aircraft

Citroen 2CV cars

Gravestones

Hill & Adamson style

Infra-red

Landscapes

People

Pinhole photos

School - 1962

Sky

Water

Here are 3 photos from my 'Edinburgh at Work' theme, taken in the 1990s:

Burton's Biscuits  -  1992

Edinburgh at Work - Burton's Biscuits

© Copyright: Peter Stubbs Photograph taken 25 May 1992

Cresser's Brush Shop  -  1994

Robert Cresser's Brush Shop at 40 Victoria Street, Edinburgh

© Photograph: peter.stubbs @edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken: 30 May 1994

Shrubhill Workshops -  1996

Edinburgh at Work - Lothian Region Transport - Shrubhill Works

© Copyright: Peter Stubbs Photograph taken July 17, 1996

These are some of the other companies that I visited, while taking my 'Edinburgh at Work' photos:

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Edinburgh at Work - Anderson's Cooperage - Leith Docks ©

1992 and 1993

Anderson's Cooperage

Anderson's Cooperage opened in Leith Docks in 1991.

It was a small company employing coopers who had previously worked for Kinnairds.

The company survived for a few years.

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Edinburgh at work - Baker & Clairmount, linotype printers ©

1992

Baker & Clairmount

linotype printers

In the early 1990, there were only two hot metal printers left in Edinburgh:

-   Speedspools (who used monotype equipment)

-   Baker & Clairmount (who used linotype equipment.

Both have since closed.

Bank of Scotland Bank Notes about to be burnt ©

1992

Bank of Scotland

money

I took photos of both Bank of Scotland (now HBoS) and the Royal Bank of Scotland burning their old banknotes, withdrawn from circulation in the early 1990s.

Here are the Bank of Scotland photos.

Edinburgh at Work - Brodie, Hamilton, Melrose - Tea and Coffee ©

1992

Brodie, Hamilton, Melrose

tea and coffee

Brodie Hamilton Melrose was, an old-established Leith company that was based at 130 Constitution Street, Leith.

Around 1994, they moved to new premises at Dock Street, Leith, trading as 'Brodies'

Edinburgh at Work - Brodies - Tea and Coffee ©

199 4

Brodies

tea and coffee

The workforce of Drysdale and Brodie, Hamilton, Melrose came together in 1991 following a takeover.

The company moved to new premises in Dock Street, Leith, around 1994 and traded 'Brodies'.

Burton's Biscuits ©

1992

Burton's Biscuits

Burton's Biscuits have a modern factory at Sighthill.

They are the largest manufacturer of Rich Tea Biscuits in Europe.

Bruce Lindsay Waldie - Coal Merchants ©

1990 to 1993

Bruce Lindsay Waldie

Coal Merchants

In the early 1990s, Bruce Lindsay Waldie had an old coal yard immediately to the west of Haymarket station.

They then moved to larger premises with more modern equipment beside the railway, off Sir Harry Lauder road at Portobello.

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A picture of Benjamin Franklin using a printing press - on the wall of the Cafe Royal, Edinburgh ©

1993

Café Royal

Inside the main bar of the Café Royal there are some attractive murals of industries, made from tiles.

I believe that these were created for one of the early exhibitions in Edinburgh, possibly 1886.

Caledonian Brewery - Real Ale ©

1993

Caledonian Brewery

Caledonian is a  prize-winning brewery making traditional ale beside the railway at Slateford.

Central Demolition - a worker supervises the burning of material during the demolition of Edinburgh's Northern General Hospital ©

1996

Central Demolition

Based at Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire, but frequently found in Edinburgh.

Chapham Inveresk, envelope manufacturers, McDonald Road, Edinburgh ©

1991

Chapman Inveresk

envelope manufacturers

Chapman Inveresk works in McDonald Road produced envelopes until the works closed  on December 18, 1991.

At the time of my visit in November 1991, some of the machinery had already been moved to new premises in Lanarkshire.

Edinburgh at Work - Chancelot Mill, Western Harbour, Leith Docks ©

1993 to 1994

Chancelot Mill

flour milling

[Leith Docks]

Chancelot Mill was once a prominent landmark at Bonnington with a tower and large clock faces.

Around 1970, the mill moved to Western Harbour, Leith, now part of the Edinburgh Waterfront development area.

Christmas Tree Warehouse at Canonmills - December 1992 ©

199 1 to 1996

Christmas Tree Warehouse

(Canonmills)

When Clarks Stonemasons moved from Canonmills to  West Shore Road in 1991, this left the premises vacant for the next four years.

They were used each December until 1995 to sell Christmas trees.

In 1996, the building was demolished and Christmas trees were sold from the yard.

Edinburgh at Work - George Christie's Building Yard - Albert Street, off Easter Road ©

199 1 to 1996

George Christie Building Supplies

(Easter Road)

George Christie's, in 1991, had a large yard of building supplies and two floors of metal workshops and storage.

The premises had been used previously by Cowans as a transport yard and stables.

The area has now been redeveloped as housing.

Clark Stonemasons - Canonmills, Edinburgh - carving stone ©

199 1

Clarks

( Stonecraft) stonemasons at Canonmills

Clarks Stonemasons were based at Canonmills until 1991, when they moved to West Shore Road, Granton, leaving their Canonmills premises to be used for selling Christmas trees for the next couple of years, before being demolished.

Clark Stonemasons - West Short Road, Granton, Edinburgh - 1995 ©

1995

Clark

stonemasons
at Granton

After leaving Canonmills,  Clark stonemasons moved to West Shore Road at Granton - now part of the Edinburgh Waterfront.

David Lindsay Formerly with Clark stonemasons ( I believe) set up his own stonemasons business beside Clarke at Granton.

Edinburgh at Work - Crabbies Green Ginger, Great Junction Street, Leith ©

199 2 and 1993

Crabbies

Green Ginger wine

Crabbies Green Ginger wine was made at Great Junction Street, Leith for many decades until it closed in the 1990s.

I believe that the Crabbies building has now been converted to housing.

Edinburgh at Work - Craig & Rose, Paint Manufacturers, Leith Walk, Edinburgh ©

1991 and 1992

Craig & Rose

Paint manufacture

Craig & Rose had a factory making paint, on the west side of Leith Walk, between Leith and Pilrig.

Their greatest claim to fame was that they manufactured the paint used for the Forth Bridge for over 100 years.

In the mid-1990s, the company moved to Fife.

Robert Cresser's Brush Shop at 40 Victoria Street, Edinburgh ©

1991 to 2001

Robert Cresser

Kippers
Newhaven

Robert Cresser, brush makers, were established in 1873

The company had a brush shop in Victoria Street.

The shop closed in the early years of C21.

Edinburgh at Work - Croan & Son, kippers ©

1991 to 1994

Croan & Sons

Kippers

Newhaven

Croan & Sons had a large low kipper factory, close to Newhaven Fishmarket,  where they smoked kippers over a fire of oak sawdust.

The factory moved in the mid-1990s, further west along the coast to West Shore Road, Granton.

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Duncan's Chocolate Factory - Beaverhall Road, Edinburgh, 1991 - a worker ©

199 1

Duncan's

chocolate factory

Duncan's chocolate factory moved from Edinburgh to Bellshill, Lanarkshire, around 1994.  I believe that Duncans is now owned by a company based somewhere around Cumbria.

Jeanette Campbell tells me that she won a competition in her local newspaper to open the Duncan's factory at Bellshill, by pressing a button to start the machinery.  She is now looking for a photo of the occasion.  If you know such a photo, please email me , then I'll pass on the news to Jeanette.

Edinburgh at Work - Drysdale - Tea and Coffee ©

199 1

Drysdale

tea and coffee

Drysdale was founded in 1878.

When I took these photos in 1991, the company was based at Grove Street, Fountainbridge  -  but not for much longer!

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Minor Repair to a bus iin Eastern Scottish Bus Depot at New Street, Edinburgh ©

1991

Eastern Scottish

bus depot

Eastern Scottish bus depot was at New Street, near Waverley Station, until the 1990s.

After Eastern Scottish moved out, the building has been used as a car park.  The site is now [2004] due to be redeveloped.

Farrier and Horse ©

1992

Equine Hoof Care
farrier

A travelling farrier, here seen working on a farm near South Queensferry.

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Forth Rail Bridge ©

1992 and 1993

Forth Bridge 1990s

Painting the bridge

Some of these photos were taken in 1992 and 1993 when the bridge was being painted and the track re-laid.

Following major changes in  responsibilities for maintenance of the bridge, I returned to take more photos in 2005.

The 'health and safety' requirements had been considerably tightened, so I could not repeat the top photo (opposite).

The Forth Rail Bridge is now (in 2005) in the middle of a 7-year repainting programme. When complete, around 2009, the paint is expected to last for a further 20 years.

Workers on the Forth Rail Bridge ©

2005

Forth Bridge 2005

Painting the bridge

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Edinburgh at Work - Harry Ramsden Fish Restaurant ©

1993

Harry Ramsden

Fish Restaurant

Newhaven Fishmarket, beside the harbour was converted in the early 1990s to become:

-  a smaller fishmarket.

-  a Newhaven heritage museum

-  a Harry Ramsden restaurant

The restaurant closed after a few years, and has now become a Loch Fyne restaurant.

Edinburgh at Work - James Hewit & Sons - Tannery at Currie, Edinburgh ©

1992 and 2006

J Hewit & Sons

Tannery

J Hewit & Sons tannery is at Currie, about 5 miles SW of the centre of Edinburgh.

I believe that Hewit's tannery may have previously been the premises of Balerno Paper Mill which started in the 1770s.

Before moving to their premises at Currie originated at the City Tan Works around 1850 on North Greys and Morrison Closes between John Knox's house and North Bridge.

The company was still in business in 2006, but had gone, and the whole site had been flattened by 2013

This web page gives a potted history of the company.

J

George Jamieson in his taxidermy workshop at Cramond Tower ©

199 1 + 2013

George Jamieson

Taxidermist

George does his taxidermy work from a workshop beside his his home at Cramond Tower, Cramond, Edinburgh

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Edinburgh at Work - Laing's Foundry at Powderhall , Edinburgh ©

199 1 to 2006

Charles Laing & Sons

foundry

This Foundry is one of the few remaining small industries still operating in the Powderhall district of Edinburgh.

The company, still a family owned business, was founded in the 1920s.

Much of the company's work, street furniture and railings, can be found in the streets of Edinburgh.

Leith Dry Docks ©

1989 to 1992

Leith Docks

Dock Cranes
Dry Docks
Ferries
Royal Navy

There is now less commercial shipping activity in Leith Docks  than there was a century ago.

Recent increased security measures have made photography more difficult.

Now, several major new housing developments are underway around Leith's Western Harbour.

David Lindsay Stonemasons - West Shore Road, Granton - 1995 ©

199 1 to 2005

David Lindsay

stonemasons

David Lindsay was based at West Shore Road, from 1991 but moved out of the area, probably in the late 1990s, to make way for the  Edinburgh Waterfront developments.

He still works in the stone industry, in Livingston (2006) but is no longer carving stone.

Lonsdale & Dutch - Tinsmiths - Howe Street, Edinburgh New Town - 1992 ©

199 1 to 2007

Lonsdale & Dutch

tinsmiths

Lonsdale & Dutch is a small tinsmith in a basement in Edinburgh's New Town.

The company has worked for the National Trust and has produced a wide range of lanterns.

Edinburgh at Work - Lothian Region Drainage Dept - Laying drains underground near the new Edinburgh International Conference Centre ©

199 1

Lothian Region Drainage Dept

laying drains

Here, Lothian Region Water & Drainage Dept was installing new drainage deep underground close to where the Edinburgh International Conference Centre now stands in Morrison Street.

The tunnels were being blasted, drilled then dug out.  They extended for 300 meters underground.

Edinburgh at Work - Lothian Region Transport - Shrubhill Works ©

1990 to 1996

L R T

Lothian Region Transport

now

Lothian Buses

Edinburgh Corporation became LRT (Lothian Region Transport).  It is now 'Lothian Buses PLC'.

Several of these 1990s photos were taken at the LRT workshops at Shrubhill, now closed.  The site is soon to be used for housing.

Photograph by Peter Stubbs - Edinburgh - December 2002 - Fire in the Old Town of Edinburgh - The South Bridge ©

199 3 to 2002

Lothian & Borders
Fire Brigade

Lothian and Borders Fire Brigade now has new fire stations at Tollcross and Newcraighall in Edinburgh, a far cry from the very small stations in the Edinburgh suburbs of the early-1900s

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George Mackay - Bolwing Green Bowl Makers - Photographed 1991 ©

1991 to 2006

George Mackay

bowling green bowl maker

George Mackay's workshop is at the foot of Blackfriars Street, near the Cowgate, in the Old Town of Edinburgh.

It is now run as a 'one-man' business by Ronnie, who has worked for the company for many years.

So far as I know, it is the only surviving old workshop in the area.  It is one of the few remaining bowls makers in the world.

Alexander McLennan with his hammer, in the middle of his blacksmiths workshop at Powderhall ©

2004

Alexander McLennan

blacksmith

Alexander McLennan is still in business in 2004, at Powderhall.

Most of the other industries have now left the area.

©

1992 to 1996

Miller & Co

Foundry

London Road

Miller's Foundry established their foundry in London Road in 1867.  It lay  about a 1/4 mile to the west of where Meadowbank Stadium was built.

The foundry closed in 1991 and was demolished.

Meadowbank Retail Park was built on the site in 1996.

Monktonhall Colliery ©

1993

Monktonhall Colliery

coal mine

My first tour of the mine was in the 1960s, soon after the mine opened, employing almost  2,000 workers.

In June 1992, operation of the mine passed to Monktonhall Mineworkers Ltd.

I returned to the mine in 1993 to take some photos.  There were 187 workers. The mine had a 100,000 contract with SSEB that year, but the mine later encountered problems underground and had to close permanently.

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Newhaven Fishmarket - 1 ©

1991 to 1992

Newhaven Fishmarket

Newhaven Fishmarket, beside Newhaven Harbour, is still open but only a third the size it was in the early 1990s.

North British Distillery - The Cooperage Yard ©

1991

North British Distillery

The NB Distillery is near Hearts' football ground at Gorgie.

Their maltings are at Slateford Road

Their cooperage and bonded warehouses are at Muirhall, West Calder, West Lothian.

Edinburgh at Work - Northern Lighthouse Board ©

1991 to 2001

Northern Lighthouse Board

Northern Lighthouse Board occupied premises in West Harbour Road, Granton, with a lighthouse frontage, until around 2002.

At the back of the site were workshops and a yard.

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Rank Hovis - Caledonia Mill, Western Harbour, Leith Docks ©

1991

Rank Hovis

Caledonia
Flour Mill
Leith Docks

Caledonia Mill (owned by Rank Hovis) was an old mill situated immediately to the north of Chancelot Mill at Leith Western Harbour.

Caledonia Mill closed on February 8, 1991.  The mill has now been demolished.

Ritchie watch and clock repairs below the shop at 54 Broughton Street ©

1991 to 1996

James Ritchie & Son

Clock Makers and Edinburgh Clock Winder

In Edinburgh, James Ritchie & Son had a shop and watch repair operation at Broughton Street.  This has now moved to Howe Street.

The company also held the contract for winding and repairing Edinburgh's public clocks.

Repairs of large public clocks were carried out at the company's works in Livingston, now moved Broxburn,  West Lothian.

Photograph by Peter Stubbs - August 2002 - St Andrew's Square - Bus Stop - Picture 1 ©

2002

Roadworks

Workers seen in the streets of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh at Work - Royal Bank of Scotland ©

1991 to 1993

Royal Bank of Scotland

Burning £1 million of used banknotes in the furnace at the St Andrew Square Office, Edinburgh.

This practice has now ended!

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Edinburgh at Work - Scottish Agricultural Industries (SAI ) fertiliser plant at Leith Docks ©

1991

SAI

fertiliser manufacturers

Scottish Agricultural Industries (SAI) is a subsidiary of ICI.

In the 1990s, it had a chemical plant at Leith Docks, along the northern edge of the docks beside the Firth of Forth, to the east of the harbour entrance, manufacturing fertilisers.

The plant has now closed and the site has been cleared.

Read more:

SAI background

Saxe Shaw, using a quill to draw his cat ©

1991

Saxe Shaw

Artist, tapestry, stained glass worker

Saxe Shaw studied art in Edinburgh.  He exhibited his paintings in Paris in 1948.

He was probably in his 70s when we met, as he worked at his home and studio at Howe Street in 1991, shortly before he died.

He told me that he has done some drawing or painting every day since he was aged 15.

St Cuthbert's Milk Deliveries - January 1985 ©

1985

Scotmid

milk deliveries

St Cuthbert's Co-op (later Scotmid, from 1981, following a merger) delivered milk around Edinburgh by horse-drawn milk float for 125 years until 1985.

Their dairy was at Fountainbridge and stables were in Grove Street.

When the horse-drawn deliveries came to an end, the co-op  had 12 Irish gelding horses. 8 went to good homes and 4 were kept for weddings and other events.

©

1991 to 1994

Scotmid

coachworks

Scotmid maintained their own coaches, coaches for a few individuals, and also the Queen's coaches, the work being done at the rate of one coach per year, until the work was completed around 1990.  The coachworks closed in the mid-1990s

Scottish & Newcastle Breweries - The Yard ©

1992 to 1993

Scottish & Newcastle

brewery

Scottish & Newcastle's Edinburgh brewery was at Fountainbridge, beside the canal.

First, the plant for filling kegs closed around the late 1990s.

Then, the brewery and plant for filling cans on the south side of Fountainbridge closed in 2005.

Edinburgh at work - Speedspools - monotype printers ©

199 1 to 1994

Speedspools

monotype printers

In the early 1990, there were only two hot metal printers left in Edinburgh:

-   Speedspools (who used monotype equipment)

-   Baker & Claremont (who used linotype equipment.

Both have since closed.

Photograph by Peter Stubbs - August 2002 - St Andrew's Square - Bus Stop - Picture 1 ©

2002

Street Views

Workers seen around the streets of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh at Work - Window cleaners clean one of the domes on the roof of The Standard Life Assurance Company's new administrative office at Tanfield, Edinburgh ©

1993

Standard Life
Assurance Co

Window cleaners cleaning one of the three domes on the roof of Tanfield House, a new administrative office for Standard Life Assurance Company

Tanfield House is close to the Water of Leith at Canonmills. It was built in 1991.

Stark Buillding Services Ltd - a joinery workshop at Spylaw Street, Colinton - March 2013 ©

2013

Stark Building Services

Joinery

This was a joinery business at Spylaw Street, Colinton  -  one of the few remaining industries still in business in Colinton when I visited the area in early-2013.
Edinburgh at Work - Stevenson & Cheyne, Bonnington, Edinburgh ©

1992 to 1993

Stevenson & Cheyne (1983) Ltd

Formed as a Management Buy-Out in 1983

I visited Stevenson & Cheyne in the winters of 1991-92 and  1992-93.

The company was then based in an old engineering works at Bonnington, Edinburgh, close to the Water of Leith.  It was the last remaining large industrial company in an area that was once a hive of industry.

Soon after my visit, Stevenson & Cheyne  left  Bonnington and moved to to Butlerfield Industrial Estate, Bonnyrigg,  close to the Newtongrange Mining Museum, in Midlothian.

Read more:

Stevenson & Cheyne background

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Tarmac's Quarry at Ravelrig, between Balerno and Ratho ©

1991

Tarmac Quarry

Ravelrig

This quarry at Ravelrig, between Balerno and Ratho was still in business and busy when I visited it in 1991.

The quarry at Ratho, nearby had closed down the previous year, following a breakdown of equipment there

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Edinburgh at Work - United Wire Works ©

1991 and 1992

United Wire Works

wire weaving

United Wire Works claims to have origins dating back to 1825.  It opened its factory at Granton Park Avenue, off West Granton Road, close to Granton Harbour, in 1925, using the former Madelvic Car Factory .  It then built more factories in the  surrounding area.

The company is still at the same location (in 2008) , and is still manufacturing wirecloth.

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Waddell's Garage Colinton

Edinburgh at Work - Waterston's sealing wax works at Powderhall, Edinburgh - 1994 ©

199 4 to 1996

George Waterston

sealing wax works

George Waterston started to manufacture sealing wax in the Old Town of Edinburgh in 1752.

The business later moved to Warriston, and continued with a small workforce in the 1990s.

The business was de-merged in Jun 2003 and was sold outside the family in December 2003

Whytock & Reid, Sunbury House, Belford Mews, Edinburgh - 1995 ©

1991 to 1995

Whytock & Reid

carpenters

Whytock & Reid had large premises close to the Water of Leith near Dean Village, Edinburgh.  They held a Royal Warrant for many generations.

The cabinet making side of the business ran down gradually in the 2oth century.  The company closed in 2004.

Edinburgh Waterfront - William Waugh scrap yard - July 2006 ©

2006

William Waugh

scrap merchants

For many years, William Waugh's scrap yard has occupied land between West Harbour Road and West Granton Road, close to Granton Square.

This land is now part of 'Edinburgh Waterfront' , a large area earmarked for development over the next fifteen years.

So Waugh's Scrap Yard is likely to move out at some stage.

Edinburgh Transport

Aircraft

Edinburgh Aero Club - founded 1928 ©

Approaching Edinburgh Airport  1960a

Approaching Edinburgh Airport 2005

Approaching Edinburgh Airport  2009

Edinburgh Aero Club

Glider

RAF Display at the Meadows

Turnhouse Open Day c 1954

Army

Field Gun and army truck outside Greyfriars' Bobby's Bar for the ceremony to Greyfriars' BObby in Greyfriars' Churchyard ©

Gun Tractor and Gun

Balloons

Balloons at Marine Gardens, Portobello - July 26, 1913 ©

Marine Gardens, Portobello

Barrow Box

Photo of a barrow box and 4 children, taken around 1933. Where might this photo have been taken? ©

Where is it?

Boats

Leith Fishing Boats, including LH28 - Where? ©

Forth Ports Pilots' boat leaving Granton Harbour ©

Boats at Newhaven Harbour

Forth Ports Pilots' Boat

Other Boats

Union Canal

Buses [old]

Char-a-Banc at Dunsapie Loch in Holyrood Park - close-up ©

Accidents

Coach Outings

Early Buses

Edinburgh Buses  1950s

Edinburgh Buses  1960s

Edinburgh Buses  1970s to 2000

Gas-powered buses

Lathalmond Scottish Vintage Bus Museum

Lothian Buses  restored

SMT Buses:  1940s

Transport Depots

Buses [recent]

Bus 726 with route branding for Route 44 in Princes Street - November 2005 ©

Bus Depots

Bus Station - St Andrew Square

Lothian Buses - 2000-03

Lothian Buses - 2004

Lothian Buses - 2005

Lothian Buses - 2006

Lothian Buses - 2007

Lothian Buses  - 2009

Lothian Buses  - 2011

Lothian Buses  - 2012  Grotto Bus

Lothian Buses - Adverts on Buses

Lothian Buses  - Bus Garages + Works

Lothian Buses  - Bus Termini

Lothian Buses - Converted

Lothian Buses - Bus Liveries

Lothian Buses - Restored

Lothian Buses  - Tour Buses

Canal

Raft Race on the Union Canal - June 27, 2009 ©

Raft Race

Cars

1938 SS100, as new ©

Robert Devlin in the driving seat of his father's Daimler ©

Old Car parked outsideThe St Stephen's Motor & Cycle Depot, 10 Hamilton Place, Stockbridge ©

Traffic Surveys at Corstorphine, 1931 ©

Boys' Brigade

Car Dealers

Cars 1900s

Cars 1920s

Cars 1930s and motorcycle

Cars 1950s

Cars 1960s

Cars 1970s

Cars 2000s

Cars and Shops

Citroen 2CVs

Decorated Cars

'Do you Know? - Motor Cars' book

Devlin's Daimler

Edinburgh Transport Dept

Granton

Hudson Terraplane

Ingliston motor racing

John Menzies' Car + Chauffeur

Madelvic Car Factory

Motor Shows

O ld Car - what make? Straker Squire

Showrooms and Garages

Traffic Survey Corstorphine 1931 + 2011

Caravans Caravan "'which can be towed at up to 100mph" at the Ideal Holiday Show at Waverley Market - 1959 ©

Holiday Shows  at Waverley Market

Cycles

Urban Downhill Cycling Event - Edinburgh - October 6, 2007 ©

Bisto Square

Davidson's Mains

Downhill Urban Cycle Race

Edinburgh Cycle Tracks

Fell & Mathieson Plumber's Bike

Old cycles

Tricycles

Ferries

Postcard - Horses embarking at Granton Harbour for manoeuvres ©

Inchcolm Ferry

Granton Ferry

Queensferry Passage

Rosyth - Zeebrugge Ferry

Fire Engines

Fire Engine parked outside the former Ritz Cinema, Rodney Street, Canonmills ©

Fire Stations

Fire Engines

Recent Photos

Accessories

Horse-drawn vehicles

and

Horses

St Cuthbert's Milk Deliveries - January 1985 ©

Acme Farms Dairy

Broxburn - D Drysdale, Baker

Bruntsfield? - horse + carriage

Coaches

Comiston Dairy

Gorgie - horse and dust cart

Funeral Procession

Horse Trams

Portobello baker

Riding of the Marches 2009

Scotmid Milk Deliveries

St Cuthbert's Fleshing Dept Cart

St Cuthbert's Grocery Cart

Hovercraft

Hovercraft approaching Portobello, during the second day of trials for the Portobello-Kirkcaldy service - July 17, 2007 ©

Portobello - Kirkcaldy trials

Lorries

Vans

©

Bruce Peebles Transformer being delivered to Portobello Power Station, 1952 ©

The City Cars - probably in the 1920s ©

St Cuthbert's Cooperative Association Ltd delivery van - Registration No SC 4860 ©

Lunn's Removal Vans -1920s? ©

Accidents

Ambulances

Austin Van

Beveridge Mobile Grocery Van

Bruce Peebles' transformers

Buttercup Dairy Co

Coal Deliveries

Duncan's Albion Van

Edinburgh Parcels Van

Edinburgh Transport Dept

Esparto Grass from Granton

Fish deliveries

Flour delivery

Granton

Grocery Deliveries

Ice Cream Vans

Heavy Loads

John H Lunn Removal vans

Leith Pageant  1960s

Madelvic Car Factory

New Lorries

Pentland Garage

Small Vans

Snow Ploughs

St Cuthbert's Coop delivery vans

Tizer Lorry

Tow Trucks

Questions

Motor Cycles Waverley Carnival, Wall of Death - 1958 ©

Shows  at Waverley Market

Pedestrians

Pedestrians crossing Chambers Street heading towards the National Museum of Scotland ©

Pedestrians

Prams

Where is it - Photograph of a railway line and a pram. Possibly Newhaven or Granton ©

Granton Harbour

Keddie Gardens

Railways

©

A North British Railways train passes through Princes Street Gardens towards Edinburgh Waverley Station ©

A Fish Train crosses the Forth Bridge - 1950s ©

Railways - Index to pages

Railway Tickets

Railways - Central Edinburgh

Railways - North Edinburgh

Railways - South Edinburgh

Railways - SW Edinburgh

Railways - West Edinburgh

Railways - East Edinburgh

Railways - Forth Bridge

Railways - Leith

Railways - East Lothian

Railways - Midlothian

Railways - West Lothian

Railways - Around Edinburgh 1950s

Railways - 1950s - DMUs

Railways - Where is it?

Railway Accidents

Railway Equipment

Scottish Railway Stations - from 1990s

Sailing

'The Skylark' at Portobello Beach ©

'Fair Maid' - Leith

Queen Mary 2

Sailing around Queensferry

'The Skylark' - Portobello

'The Waverley' and 'Balmoral'

Shipping

Leith Docks - Photograph in Edinburgh Official Guide, 1923 ©

Devlin Trawlers

Granton Harbour

Granton to London

HMS Edinburgh

Leith Docks

Leith Harbour

Leith Ship Launch - MV Kaitoa

Steam Barge - Where was it built?

Tug - Medusa

Steam Transport

on the roads

Steam Rolle rin Edinburgh, 1960s ©

Steam Buses

Steam Passenger Road Transport

Steam Rollers

Traction Engines

Taxis

Edinburgh Taxi Trde Children's Outing, 2012 - Taxi decorated as Thomas the Tank Engine + Bear ©

Taxi Trade Children's Outing, 2012

Trams

Princes Street - 1917 - Electric and Cable Cars ©

Old Trams (to 1956)

Cable Car 226

Decorated Trams

Illuminated Trams

Trams in Central Edinburgh

Trams around Edinburgh

Horse Tramcars

First and Last Trams

Tramway Maintenance

Tramway to Redford

Transport Depots

Trams Preserved

Street Lighting

New Trams (from around 2013)

Tram News

Tram Posters

Trams - Princes Street preparations

Yachting

Edinburgh Taxi Trde Children's Outing, 2012 - Taxi decorated as Thomas the Tank Engine + Bear ©

Granton Harbour

Lift-out - Oct 27, 2007

Lift-in   - Apr 5, 2008

Lift-in   - Apr 6, 2013

Other Transport

©

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Procession - What are these vehicles, and when might the photo have been taken? ©

Edinburgh Corporation Vehicles

South Pole Sno-Cat

Post Office Vehicles

Studio Portraits

Portrait of three in a studio car. Who was the photographer? ©

Post card portrait - 4 ladies in an 'aeroplane' - similar to a photograph from the studio of Chris Low ©

Transport in Studio Portraits

Edinburgh

Bus Termini

Route 1

Clermiston

Lothian Buses  -  Terminus  - Clermiston - Route 1

© Copyright: Peter Stubbs Photograph taken June 12, 2010

Route 2

Gyle Centre

Lothian Buses - Terminus - Gyle Center - Route 2

© Copyright: Peter Stubbs Photograph taken May 29, 2007

Route 3

Clovenstone Drive

Lothian Buses - Terminus - Clovenstone - Routes 3 and 3A

© Copyright: Peter Stubbs Photograph taken June 15, 2010

I also have photos from all the other termini, but 3 photos should be sufficient for now.

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History of Photography in Edinburgh

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Introduction

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Early History

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Cameras + Photos

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Societies

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Photographers

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