Dumbiedykes Road

Category

Library Item

Item no

17222

Title

Dumbiedykes Road

Description

A woman pushing a pram walks up Dumbiedykes Road, Edinburgh. She is wearing a headscarf and a long dark coat. To her left broken down walls surround a demolition site and behind her lies a squat rectangular building with barbed wire round the roof.

Artist / maker

Malcolm, Adam H

Date

1959

Size

121 x 84cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This image is taken from the Dumbiedykes Survey that was carried out in 1959 for the Libraries and Museums Committee of Edinburgh Town Council. The survey was to record the buildings of the area before their demolition and reconstruction after 1964.

Dumbiedykes is an area of central Edinburgh bordered by Holyrood Park to the east and Holyrood Road to the north. 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 (known as Dummie/Dumbie House). 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.

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Homes > Residential buildings > Tenements

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