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Water Street, Leith
Unknown, 1953, Photograph
Water Street, Leith
Water Street, Leith
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Item no
38622
Title
Water Street, Leith
Artist / maker
Unknown
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Unknown
Date
1953
Size
4.5 x 6.8 cm
Type
Photograph
A view of Water Street from 1953, with old tenement building's west of the water of Leith.
Water Street is between the East end of Tollbooth Wynd and Commercial Street, Leith.
The Town Council Minutes of 3rd April 1924 proposed the demolition or reconstruction of "certain houses, courts, and alleys unfit for human habitation". The concerns of William Robertson, Medical Officer of Health for the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh, were that the "narrowness, closeness, and bad arrangement, or the bad condition of the streets and houses, the want of light, air, ventilation or proper conveniences or other sanitary defects & are dangerous or injurious to the health of the inhabitants of the buildings in the said areas, or of the neighbouring buildings ". The scheme involved large-scale demolition in this area of Leith, and the re-housing of most displaced residents outwith the areas covered by the scheme.
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Leith Miscellany XIII
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