Skip to content
Home
Favourites
0
Advanced search
Shopping cart
0
Register
Log in
Images of Edinburgh
Browse map
Area A - Z
Browse by date
Exhibitions
Current exhibition
All exhibitions
Collections
About the collections
Browse by theme
Subject A - Z
The image library for the collections of Edinburgh Libraries and Museums and Galleries
Images of Edinburgh
Browse map
Area A - Z
Browse by date
Exhibitions
Current exhibition
All exhibitions
Collections
About the collections
Browse by theme
Subject A - Z
Niddrie field workers
Unknown, 1920, Reproduction
Niddrie field workers
Niddrie field workers
Add to favourites
Share
Item record
About this image
Related
Location
Category
Library Item
Item no
27433
Title
Homeward bound. Field workers snapped on their lorry at Niddrie at the end of the day's work
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1920
Type
Reproduction
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Niddrie is a suburb in south east Edinburgh, southwest of Portobello. Up until the 1930s most of the land was owned by the Wauchope family who donated their lands to the city. Their home was called Niddrie Marischal House and the family lived here until 1944 when the council purchased it for £8000. Unfortunately it was guttered by fire in the late 1940s and lay in ruins until demolished in the 1960s. It was situated to the west of where the Jack Kane Centre sports complex is in Hunters Hall Park.
During the 1930s estates of social housing were built at Niddrie for the families removed from the centre of Edinburgh during the slum clearances. The Niddrie Mains estate has now almost completely been demolished to make way for a mixture of private and social housing.
Exhibitions with this item
ReDrawing Edinburgh: Edinburgh in 1920
Other views of this item
Related images
Related subjects
Clothing and dress
>
Accessories
>
Hats
Clothing and dress
>
Accessories
>
Scarves
Clothing and dress
>
Garments
>
Coats
People
>
Adults
>
Women
Places
>
Edinburgh areas
>
Craigmillar
Places
>
Scotland
>
Edinburgh
Transport
>
Land
>
Trucks
More like this