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Leith Walk, Greenside Place and Baxters Place
Unknown, 1958, Photograph
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Leith Walk, Greenside Place and Baxters Place
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4191
Title
Leith Walk, Greenside Place and Baxters Place
Description
A view of Leith Walk, Greenside Place and Baxters Place from Picardy Place, Edinburgh. The Playhouse Theatre sits on Greenside Place and a white protruding porch advertises the latest show. Next to the theatre stands Heather's Restaurant and Porter's Bar. Many cars, trucks and buses are travelling up the street towards Leith Street. Various people are walking on the street too, many of them looking in the windows of the shops on Baxter's Place.
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Unknown
Date
1958
Size
16.1 x 21.2 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
The garage and showroom of 'Porter's Motor Mart' set up by John Adam Porter, Scotland's first Isle of Man TT winner, is visible in this photograph at 25, 26, 27 Greenside Place (now the Theatre Royal Bar).
Leith Walk in Edinburgh is a notably wide street running from the west side of Calton Hill down to Great Junction Street in Leith. It follows the line of a raised pedestrian walkway which ran along the top of an earthen rampart constructed to defend the city against Cromwell's army in 1650. In 1776 this walkway and the road immediately to its west were combined as a single, modern road. This road, along with North Bridge and Leith Street, provided greatly improved access to Leith from Edinburgh.
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The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage
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