History
Images
Modern developments
- A nice photo of Lochrin Basin before the Edinburgh Quay developments by Roy Brown
- Roy Brown has a wider set of photographs of the restoration of the Leamington Lift Bridge here.
Before modern developments
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This is the first of two photographs I took of the derelict Union Canal in Edinburgh on 28 August 1976. It shows the view west from Yeaman Place bridge with the tenements of Watson Crescent on the right and Temple Park Crescent on the left. Tony Jervis. (Click on the photo to enlarge. Photo copyright.) |
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The second photograph of the derelict Union Canal in Edinburgh on 28 August 1976. This is the view east from Yeaman Place bridge towards Viewforth. I'm not sure what works the chimney belonged to but an Edinburgh Commercial Directory of the period might provide a clue under Yeaman Lane. There was a large rubber works in the Viewforth area (North British Rubber Co, later part of Dunlop or Uniroyal, but whether it came this far along I'm not sure. There was a notice at Harrison Park East discouraging people walking further into Edinburgh because the wide towpath either side of the Leamington Bridge was used as a car park for the rubber works and the brewery and was fenced and gated off. The nearer buildings on the right have now been replaced by the flats in Dorset Place, fronting on to the canal. Tony Jervis. (Click the photo to enlarge. Photo copyright.) |
- There's another set of photos which are of interest because they show the (previously) piped sections of canal and what they look like today.
1925
1920
- Pictures of Port Hamilton, and a wooden bridge at Leamington Road from around 1920 .
- Picture of the front of Hopetoun House in 1920
1870
1825
Written history
- A written history of the canal from the Seagull Trust.
- And another one, from …, here
- There's an interesting reference to the canal (according to the owner of this blog) written in a letter from 1827 here.
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