Greenside: Leith Street Backs and Greenside Place Backs

Category

Library Item

Item no

4213

Title

Greenside: Leith Street backs and Greenside Place Backs

Description

Cars are parked beside the business premises of Cedar Contracts, Shopfitters. There is a large carpark nearby below the backs of Greenside tenements.

Artist / maker

Jackman, S. G.

Date

1969

Size

14.9 x 20.3 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Reverse of item is annotated as follows 'taken from near foot of Upper Greenside Lane. The Leith Street buildings were all demolished after the fire which destroyed the Imperial Hotel'

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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Homes > Residential buildings > Tenements

Places > Edinburgh areas > Calton

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Land > Cars

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