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Paths planned through Eastern General site
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Posted 11 years ago #
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My first thought:
"Smelly!"
Posted 11 years ago # -
My first thought:
A former mortuary converted into a bedroom? Cool!
Posted 11 years ago # -
kaputnik: "A former mortuary converted into a bedroom?"
...you'll know; what other building complexes have/had mortuaries?
Posted 11 years ago # -
Presumably if Quartermile was haunted we'd have heard by now.
Hope the footway on Seafield Street is improved to allow any paths through the EG to link up to the shared-use footway on the other side of Seafield Road...
Posted 11 years ago # -
Yes, I was just thinking this will be essential as the new development will see a lot more motor vehicle traffic on Seafield Street. Currently the footway runs out after the Restalrig railway path and you have to join the carriageway. Not a problem with the present levels of traffic, but judging from the architect's visualisation there will be a fair few cars coming and going. The there are the inevitable vans from couriers, supermarkets, utility firms, tradesmen, takeaway deliveries, etc.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Presumably if Quartermile was haunted we'd have heard by now.
"gloomier"
"worse than dead"
"almost eerie, even sinister"from Joanna Blythman's review of Nanyang, the Malaysian restaurant in Quartermile.
Posted 11 years ago # -
That's a very accurate review of the Quartermile (Quarterfull?) and confirms the impression I formed of the restuarant from a brief inspection of their menu.
I think the location of the old mortuary (in the original Victorian hostipal) has been demolished, it was next to the boilerhouse between Lauriston Terrace and what is now Nightingale Way.
This was the mortuary and chapel of rest for Longmore House Hospital (now Historic Scotchland).
And this was that of the City Hospital.
Perhaps there's more out there?
Mortuaryride?
Posted 11 years ago # -
kaputnik, I was thinking of collieries. There was a prominently sited mortuary at the entrance to the pit in Dysart when I visited it.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Aha, I've never visited the site at Frances, so wasn't aware.
The chapel for Newcraighall colliery is still there, in use as a kitchen showroom
Posted 11 years ago # -
We walked thru Astley Ainslie on Saturday from Egypt Mews to Whitehouse Terr - and wondered how long before its sold off?
p.s. I was born at the Eastern in the late 60s.
Posted 11 years ago # -
"and wondered how long before its sold off?"
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/1870/astley_ainslie
Posted 11 years ago # -
Nelly - snap, I was born there in the early 1980s.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Chdot, funny that article, NHS boss says he doesn't encourage right of way through A A ! How strange, I have always presumed it was a short cut / running route.
Kappers, did you get Leith as place of birth on passport? Last passport did, sadly now says Edinburgh but a big Leither mate was very jealous as he was born in Simpsons !
Posted 11 years ago # -
@Nelly no I didn't get a passport until I was 16 or something so was too late for that. And my birth was registered in Prestonpans, although Mum's family are all Leith.
My Nana used to go on about waiting to change from Leith Corporation electic tram onto Edinburgh Corporation cablecar at the Burgh boundary to get up to Edinburgh, but as she would have been only 2 at the time of the merger and not born when the last cablecar had run, she was probably relaying stories of her own parents.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Not only is there now a route through Fleming Place to Findlay Gardens but there's a cut-through through the Snail Wall to slightly further along Findlay Gardens by the allotments (or (in the other direction) the back of one of the industrial units round the back of Halfords on Craigentinny Avenue North, which still has steps). I finally got round to walking along past the Snail Wall to check that it hadn't been either deliberately or accidentally destroyed by the construction.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Snail Wall? What kind of snails are we talking about?
Posted 7 years ago # -
On one of my many late-night or early-morning wanderings round there trying to get a child to stay asleep 6¾ years or so ago there was once a huge infestation of snails all over the path and all up the wall. Some of the snails' shells are stuck there to this day. Haven't seen anything like it since so it was maybe a one-off bid to escape persecution by the golf-people of Craigentinny.
Posted 7 years ago #
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