Pilrig - looking north - Capital Collections

Category

Library Item

Item no

36294

Title

Leith Miscellany Vol 1

Date

1902

Size

11.0 x 16.2 cm

Type

Postcard; Reproduction

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Pilrig was the approximate boundary of Leith and Edinburgh before they joined in 1920. They had separate tram systems and anyone who wanted to travel past Pilrig had to change trams here. The two systems merged about five years later when Edinburgh switched from the cable-driven trams they had used since 1899. Leith trams had been electric since 1905. This photograph shows an Edinburgh cable tram reaching the boundary, and there are no overhead wires for the Leith electric system, so it must have been taken between 1899 and early 1905.

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