View from the Top of Morningside Road

Category

Library Item

Item no

32063

Title

View from the top of Morningside Road looking towards Hillend Ski Centre and the Pentland Hills

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2014

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Morningside was once a village on a main road south from Edinburgh. In the 1850s it was no more than a row of thatched houses and a blacksmith's forge and beyond the Jordan Burn was open countryside. Nowadays it is predominantly residential with a collection of small traditional shops,restaurants,supermarkets,a library and hospitals.

Midlothian Snowsports Centre - previously known as Hillend Ski Centre has the longest dry ski slope in Europe. It has 2 main slopes and 2 Nursery slopes. The centre was a gift to the people of Edinburgh by George Boyd Anderson, who made his fortune as a rubber planter in Malaysia.

The Pentland Hills are a range of hills south-west of Edinburgh. Designated a Regional Park in 1984 it is used for a variety of recreational activities including hill walking,mountain biking and horse riding. Much of Edinburgh's water supply comes from the reservoirs in the hills.

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