View Looking from Leith Street Down Leith Walk

Category

Library Item

Item no

31656

Title

View looking from Leith Street down Leith Walk

Description

A crowded street scene outside the Omni Leisure Centre at Greenside. Two large giraffe sculptures stand at the entrance to the leisure complex.

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2014

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Leith Street is a short street in Edinburgh which runs downhill from the east end of Princes Street towards Leith.

Leith Walk in Edinburgh is a notably wide street running from the west side of Calton Hill down to Great Junction Street in Leith. It follows the line of a raised pedestrian walkway which ran along the top of an earthen rampart constructed to defend the city against Cromwell's army in 1650. In 1776 this walkway and the road immediately to its west were combined as a single, modern road. This road, along with North Bridge and Leith Street, provided greatly improved access to Leith from Edinburgh

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