Greenside Place and Leith Street, Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

4205

Title

Greenside Place and Leith Street showing facade of Lady Glenorchy's Church and gap site

Description

Cranes tower above the construction site on Greenside Place. There are portacabins infront of the scaffolding supporting the facade of Lady Glenorchy's Church. Observatory House and Dugald Stewart's Monument can be seen on Calton Hill.

Artist / maker

McGarry, Paul

Date

1994

Size

13.3 x 20.1 cm

Type

Photograph

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.

The Greenside area of Edinburgh, immediately to the west of Calton Hill, changed substantially during the second half of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st century. Tall, 19th century tenement buildings were demolished in the 1960's as part of Edinburgh's slum clearances. The Omni Centre, comprising a 12 screen cinema, hotel, bars, restaurants and a fitness centre was opened on the site in 2002.

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Manufacturing Industry > Manufacturing equipment > Cranes

Manufacturing Industry > Manufacturing facilities > Construction sites

Places > Edinburgh areas > Calton

Places > Edinburgh areas > Calton Hill

Places > Edinburgh areas > Leith Walk

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

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