Pennywell

Category

Library Item

Item no

6290

Title

Pennywell

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1887

Size

10.5 x 15.2 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This photograph is from a volume entitled 'Photographs of houses in the vicinity of Lauriston Castle' which was compiled in 1909. The book has the armorial bookplate of Macknight Crawfurd of Cartsburn, Lauriston Castle, on the inside cover.

The name Pennywell was possibly derived from the Scots word "penny" to feed, implying that the well or spring was a place where animals were brought to be fed and watered - from The Place Names of Edinburgh, Stuart Harris.

The area was first developed immediately after World War II, when Prefabs were built. The building trade was short of workers immediately after the war, many traditional building materials were in short supply and new homes were needed quickly to replace houses that had been bombed. The prefabs were manufactured in former aircraft factories, no longer needed after wartime, using aircraft materials such as aluminium. They were brought to site on lorries in three or four sections, and assembled.

The area was later redeveloped in the 1960s. Some buildings at the north-east section of this area, on both sides of Pennywell Road near the Pennywell Road / Muirhouse Parkway roundabout, have been demolished, starting in 2007, and the present Craigroyston Community High School has been built on part of the site.

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