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Freer Street, Fountainbridge - children playing
Unknown, 1955, Photograph
Freer Street, Fountainbridge - children playing
Freer Street, Fountainbridge - children playing
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Item no
21923
Title
Freer Street, Fountainbridge - children playing in street, c. 1955
Description
Many young children are playing in a cobbled residential street. One boy is pushing a pram down the road and there are three other prams parked outside houses on the left. Tenement blocks of housing line the street and there is a shop in a low-rise building at the junction at the end of the street.
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Unknown
Date
1955
Size
20.3 x 25.5 cm
Type
Photograph
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Fountainbridge is an area in the south-west of central Edinburgh, to the west of Tollcross. The area is centred around the western section of a road also called Fountainbridge. The Union Canal now begins in this area having originally extended a little further east.
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