Braid Church , Nile Grove, Now a Pizza Express

Category

Library Item

Item no

32116

Title

Braid Church , Nile Grove, now a Pizza Express restaurant

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.

In the grounds of the Church at the end of Nile Grove once stood the original Toll House (259 Morningside Road). Before that the toll house for the Edinburgh Boundaries was in Tollcross. The house has been rebuilt in Braid Road.
[Information taken from Morningside Heritage Association leaflet, "Morningside Heritage Trail"].

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