View from Corstorphine Hill of Dumbiedykes flats

Category

Library Item

Item no

12586

Title

View from the Golf Course on Corstorphine Hill of the proposed Dumbiedykes development

Description

An artist's impression shows how proposed towerblocks at Dumbiedykes would affect Edinburgh's skyline. The blocks of flats are seen against the outline of the castle and Arthur's Seat. In the foreground is the open space of the golf course on Corstorphine Hill in the west of the city.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1952

Size

29.3 x 38.2 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Dumbiedykes is an area of central Edinburgh bordered by Holyrood Park to the east and Holyrood Road to the north. Today the name most often refers specifically to the housing estate in the area which comprises two tower blocks, Lockview Court and Holyrood Court, and other housing. The area and road take their name from the Academy for the Deaf and Dumb established by Thomas Braidwood around 1764 and closed in 1783.

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