Library Item

4203

Construction site at Greenside Place and Leith Street with Picardy Place in background

Next to the Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre foundations and the lower floors of buildings are under construction. Men work on the site. Near to the site lorries and vans are parked. The tops of buses and the buildings of Picardy Place can be seen above the wooden fence separating the construction site from the traffic of Leith Walk.

1994

13.4 x 20.1 cm

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Leith Street is a short street in Edinburgh which runs downhill from the east end of Princes Street towards Leith.

The Greenside area of Edinburgh, immediately to the west of Calton Hill, changed substantially during the second half of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st century. Tall, 19th century tenement buildings were demolished in the 1960's as part of Edinburgh's slum clearances. The Omni Centre, comprising a 12 screen cinema, hotel, bars, restaurants and a fitness centre was opened on the site in 2002.

The Greenside area of Edinburgh, immediately to the west of Calton Hill, changed substantially during the second half of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st century. Tall, 19th century tenement buildings were demolished in the 1960's as part of Edinburgh's slum clearances. The Omni Centre, comprising a 12 screen cinema, hotel, bars, restaurants and a fitness centre was opened on the site in 2002.