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Flats awaiting demolition, Niddrie Mains Drive
MacLean, Kevin, 2007, Digital image
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Flats awaiting demolition, Niddrie Mains Drive, Edinburgh, with Arthur's Seat in background
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MacLean, Kevin
Date
2007
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19.7 x 26.4 cm
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Digital image
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Niddrie is a suburb in south east Edinburgh,southwest of Portobello. Up until the 1930s most of the land was owned by the Wauchope family who donated their lands to the city. Their home was called Niddrie Marischal House and the family lived here until 1944 when the council purchased it for £8000. Unfortunately it was guttered by fire in the late 1940s and lay in ruins until demolished in the 1960s. It was situated to the west of where the Jack Kane Centre sports complex is in Hunters Hall Park.
During the 1930s estates of social housing were built at Niddrie for the families removed from the centre of Edinburgh during the slum clearances. The Niddrie Mains estate has now almost completely been demolished to make way for a mixture of private and social housing.
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