Hugh Cairns with his Raleigh Hercules bicycle

Category

Library Item

Item no

21896

Title

Hugh Cairns with his Raleigh Hercules bicycle in the 1930s

Description

A man leans on his bike for a photograph in the Broomhouse area of Edinburgh. He has stopped at the side of the road beside flat open grassland.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1934

Size

8.8 x 13.9 cm

Type

Photograph

This item was digitised as part of the Whose Town? project, an educational resource for schools. Unique archival material was gathered together to create a snapshot of a person's life at a particular point in Edinburgh's history.

Broomhouse, from the Scots brume hous, meaning the house where broom grows, is recorded as early as 1599 as part of the lands of Saughton. The mansion stood on the site now occupied by St Augustine's school. The modern areas of housing were built from 1947 onwards, but only the north east quarter is on Broomhouse land, with the remainder on parts of Saughton Mains and Parkhead Farm and the areas of Saughton House.

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