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Site of Wilkie's Basin near Ratho
Unknown, 1956, Photograph
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Site of Wilkie's Basin near Ratho
Site of Wilkie's Basin near Ratho
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33790
Title
Site of Wilkie's Basin near Ratho
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Unknown
Date
1956
Size
11.5 x 6.0 cm
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Photograph
Copyright
Reproduced by kind permission of William J. Hall
The photographs in this exhibition were kindly loaned to us by Bill Hall for our digital collections. It contains images dating from the early 1900s to the 1980s, taken across Scotland.
Brought up in Edinburgh he has collected many family photographs and items covering his mother's early years and his own boyhood.
Bill's maternal grand parents, the Clark family lived at Wilkie's Basin on the Union Canal from approximately 1861 to 1931.
Ratho lies to the west of Edinburgh, with the Union Canal running through it. Ratho is home to the Edinburgh International Climbing Arena. Built in a disused quarry,it is the largest indoor climbing centre in Europe.
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