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1-5, Smith's Land, Leith
Unknown, 1924, Photograph
1-5, Smith's Land, Leith
1-5, Smith's Land, Leith
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4622
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1-5, Smith's Land, Leith
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Many children are playing in the street at Smith's Land in Leith. The girls and boys momentarily stop their games to look at the camera. On the corner is a small grocer's store. Metal adverts for Rowntree's Cocoa and Lyons Tea are attached to the shop wall. The row of tenements looks somewhat rundown.
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Unknown
Date
1924
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16 x 20.8 cm
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
This is part of a photographic survey made to accompany the Edinburgh (Leith) Improvement Scheme of 1924.
The Edinburgh (Leith) Improvement Scheme, 1924, was a plan for the regeneration of an area of Leith surrounding Constitution Street and to the north of Great Junction Street. The Town Council Minutes of 3rd April 1924 propose 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&or 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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