View Looking Towards Calder Crescent Wester Hailes

Category

Library Item

Item no

21310

Title

View looking towards Calder Crescent Wester Hailes

Description

A view of two of the types of housing in Wester Hailes. In the fore-front of this image is a large container which has been turned into a community art feature showing trees, water, a swan and high flats on a hillside. In the background are both two storey flats with sharply pitched roofs and three multi-storey blocks with a distinctive grey and white pattern. There are several cars parked in the area and it is lit by electric light. The area by the houses is grassed while the area under the container is tarred.The photograph is taken near the towpath of the Union Canal.

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2009

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The Union Canal at Wester Hailes reopened on Saturday 25 August 2001, allowing water passage to central Edinburgh. The original canal was closed over in the late 1960s as new housing was developed in the area. Millennium funding allowed a new canal to be dug out. New bridges and walk ways were built and sculptures commissioned. The canal is now enjoyed by rowers and passengers of barges while the path is a peaceful walk or cycle to and from Wester Hailes into Edinburgh.
The original canal was opened in 1822. It was 31.5 miles long and connected Glasgow to Edinburgh. It was described as Scotland's only contour canal because there were no locks along its entire length.

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Homes > Residential buildings > Houses

Homes > Residential buildings > Tower blocks

Places > Edinburgh areas > Wester Hailes

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Infrastructure > Trails and paths

(55°55′6″N, 3°18′0″W)

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