Category Archives: Edinburgh

Mar 15 2020
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Britain, Edinburgh, Tourism, Transport, Travel, Uncategorized

Lothian Road had a port?!

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I did not know until last week that Lothian Road, right where the Odeon Cinema now resides, was once home to a port (Hopetoun), this the start/end of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal. Nor was I aware that Burke and Hare were among the navvies who built the waterway. Cracking article here in The Scotsman: https://www.scotsman.com/heritage/when-passenger-boats-could-dock-at-lothian-road-in-edinburgh-s-city-centre-1-5036076

A 13-hour journey quickly supplanted by the railway, imagine being sat on a barge for that long without the internet.

P.S. No midgets were harmed in the taking of that photograph.

Further reading:

https://canmore.org.uk/site/52712/edinburgh-port-hopetoun-union-canal-basin

 

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Mar 09 2020
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Edinburgh, Photography, Uncategorized

Nixon in China.

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Spotted two mass-murdering maniacs at Haymarket the other day. Ruined my morning.

Bye for now.

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Mar 07 2020
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Architecture, Britain, Construction, Edinburgh, Photography, Scotland, Uncategorized

Ugly Edinburgh.

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The reveal of the buildings on this list wasn’t much of a shock, and I am humbled by the fact that two of them I work in, and another – see photo above – I pass at least four times a day (I even wrote a shitty blog about it a while back).

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain – someone said that once (Dolly Parton and David Brent). Only through the contrast with the rotten can we appreciate the palatial.

FYI: I presently write this from a building on the list.

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/gallery/edinburgh-eyesores-here-eight-ugliest-17742367?fbclid=IwAR0IIAoxwAD7GarjG8dxBlCXiAkQTBG-t4901H4UPK9WN4L1NU0mzYsyhqQ

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Feb 26 2020
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Architecture, Britain, Construction, Edinburgh, Leith, Photography, Scotland, Uncategorized

Storm Dennis strikes Leith.

It’s not been pretty; in fact, it has been rather harrowing. Tornado season is now over, however, and we can now look forward to the Coronavirus.

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Feb 16 2020
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Building, Edinburgh, Photography, Scotland, Uncategorized, United Kingdom

Standard Meadowbank scenes.

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A thoroughly frightful February in the Meadowbank ghetto this morning, with Arthur’s Seat in the backdrop conforming to its winter type; there is a desolation in the air here 24/7 and a ‘hobby’ of mine is listening to peak The Smiths in all their miserableness every time I lumber through the car park with a protein bar nabbed from Sainsbury’s.

That wee KFC picnic area is a delightful sight come spring, the main attraction hordes of local tribes (most off their nuts on crack cocaine) fending off seagulls.

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Feb 05 2020
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Edinburgh, Film, Movies, Photography, Scotland, Tourism, Uncategorized

Fountainbridge, Edinburgh.

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Famous for being the birthplace of Sir Sean Connery, and that’s about it as far as historical significance goes. The area has gone through such transformations over the past decade or so it’s unrecognisable from the Noughties. The pub ‘The Fountain’, for example, was in recent times popularly compared to Vietnam in the age of Presidents Johnson and Nixon; today it is thoroughly hipster and you need to venture elsewhere to witness a glassing.

Tragedy.

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Jan 15 2020
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Britain, Cinema, Edinburgh, Film, Movie, Movies, Uncategorized

Film Noir Gorgie.

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Perhaps one day it will happen but I very much doubt it – a lauded director decides to use Gorgie Road as a seedy backdrop for a modern noir. I imagine a jaded Bogartesque PI stopping off at Aldi for a few cheap beers after a draining day spent with myriads of local scum.

In fact, I’m going to have to make this motion picture, the drama shot on a battered HTC, Gorgie City Farm the site of the climactic shootout.

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Jan 09 2020
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Welcome to Edinburgh.

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Edinburgh January blues in a snap (the roundabout connecting Elm Row with London Road). It’s not exactly Chernobyl circa 1986 but mornings in this part of town are certainly fucking grim.

And the wind broke my umbrella.

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Dec 27 2019
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Edinburgh, Photography, Scotland, Uncategorized

Mandatory Gorgie Road Xmas morning snap.

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No caption necessary.

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Dec 19 2019
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Leith wanderings.

 

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The Foot of the Walk (pub).

More aimless trudging about Leith on a Monday morning. It doesn’t half look grimy at times, yet the odd bit of gentrification aside, has a semi-charming honesty about it.

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Easter Road.

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Newkirkgate Shopping Centre.

The hideous trams are sadly expanding their accompanying plague into here, though – more congestion, more roadworks, more ruined small businesses, more vexing tourists without a clue where they are.

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Leith Walk. Trams to shit on here by 2023.

Trams are a nuisance, a conduit for cretins.

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